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The upgrade was not evaluated for US military service or assigned a designation. [99] GDLS acquired Teledyne and by 1987 had pursued the RFP improvement to the armor, mounted the M68A1, and called it the Super 60. It was the reference point for the ARNG upgrade decisions submitted to the Department of the Army to upgrade its M60A3 TTS fleet.
All M60T tanks will be upgraded to M60T1 standard under TIYK program. Ongoing upgrade. [111] [112] M60 Patton United States: 105 mm M68E1 gun M60A3 TTS 650 [113] 105mm MZK gun M60A3 TIYK Will be upgraded under TIYK program. [114] M48 Patton United States: 105 mm M68/T254E2 gun A5T2 750 [115] Upgraded along similar lines to the M60A3. [116]
The upgrade package was first offered to Turkey as an option for its tank modernization program and later offered for general export. The Turkish government selected the Sabra Mk II (a further modified version of the Sabra) for its upgrade program, which was intended as a stopgap measure.
Later Saudi Arabia decided to upgrade all of M1A2 variants to M1A2S configuration. 153 M1A2S on order since 9 August 2016. [24] 20 were lost in Yemen. [26] M60 Patton United States: M60A3: 200: 910 M60A1 RISE (250 transferred to North Yemen). [27] Many of these were upgraded to M60A3s during the 1990s. [28] AMX-30 France: AMX-30SA: 140: In reserve.
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.
Other than the M60A3 TTS, Taiwan also has approximately 400 CM-11 Brave Tiger tanks developed by General Dynamics and the ROC Army's Armored Vehicle Development Center. The CM11 is a hybrid M60 chassis fitted with the turret from the older M48A5 Patton and the fire control system (FCS) of the M1 Abrams. [74]
M60A3 TTS: 619 United States: M48A5T2: 750 United States Turkey: M48A5T2: Turkish M48 variant upgraded along similar lines to the M60A3, with an M68 105 mm main gun, passive night vision, an AVDS-1790 diesel engine, M60A3 thermal imaging, M60A3 fire control system and a laser rangefinder. Used mainly for supporting ground forces Turkmenistan: T ...
Current ROC tanks include used M60A3 tanks and locally manufactured M48 tanks in which the initial variants were first produced between the 1950s and 1960s. [28] [29] [30] The first batch of 38 tanks were received on December 16, 2024, with the remaining tanks to be delivered in two patches, one in 2025 and the final batch in 2026. [31]