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Egyptian version of the M60A1 participates with the Egyptian Army in Operation Bright Star. Egypt steadily purchased 700 M60A1s from US surpluses in Europe from 1979 to 1988. Some additional 1,016 M60A3s were purchased from the United States and Austria between 1990 and 2002.
Egypt: Received 700 M60A1 and 759 M60A3 from the United States, plus 168 from Austria. [183] 300 M60A1 and 850 M60A3 in service as of 2023. [187] Iran: 460 M60A1s were transferred from the US before 1979, [188] with 150 in service as of 2023 [189] Israel: 1,350 M60, M60A1, M60A3, and various Magach models in 2005. [183]
The Egyptian Armoured Corps is a branch of the Egyptian Army and the second main Corps responsible for Armoured operations. ... 300 M60A1; 850 M60A3; and 200 T-62 ...
Egypt had destroyed a large number of Israeli tanks, and only 200 M48 and M60A1 tanks remained. Israel entrenched most of these tanks in the Sinai front against opposite entrenched Egyptian infantry armed with 9M14 Malyutka anti tank missiles. [2]
According to former Janes editor Christopher F Foss, the Egyptians began phasing out their T-54/55 tanks after receiving 700 M60A1 tanks from the US free of charge (except for the shipping costs) between 1990 and 1992. [4] Foss also states that as of early 2011 no tanks were upgraded to the Ramses II standard for the Egyptian Army. [3]
Egypt: T-62: 500 [4] Soviet Union: 300 in active service with a further 200 in storage. Ramses II: 840 [4] Egypt: A significantly upgraded T-54/55. Though the initial prototype (T-54E) was delivered in 1984, full production did not begin until 2004–2005, an additional 140–160 are to be converted from stored T-55. M60: 1,150 [4] United States
The upgrade was marketed at those M60 users with the industrial capability to convert the tanks themselves. The M60-2000/120S was a GDLS supplied conversion kit that married the turret of the M1A1 variant of the M1 Abrams to the M60A1 hull of the M60, offering many features of the M1A1 Abrams to existing M60 users at a reduced cost.
Egypt purchased the original 215 units from the Soviet Union and a domestic production license renaming all the future machines Sakr. Sark-4 are tripod-based units, while Sakr-10 and Sakr-8 are jeep-mounted units, and the rest are truck-mounted units. Egypt also developed a wheeled based MRL called Sakr-45. RAAD 200 Egypt: 122mm MLRS N/A [83] [73]