Don,
Figured I'd put this here some pictures for you to consider for the Turkish
M-60T. I got a little nostalgic and looked back into my first official Patch submission in "
The FASTBOAT Patch page" on
Pg.1 Post 3 Item A4 and below to M2 and the others below that.. I looked at the bottom of
M2 and saw
all those posts listed there and it took me a minute to realize they're posts from the this thread on the
M-60T but, how confusing it must've been to see that and scratch your head and ask "
OK for what Thread does he want me to look at!?!".
What a great upgrade project that was that IMI put together for that tank (They
RESET 170
M-60A1 tanks to
beyond the
M-60A3 TTS. It had a
120mm L44 SB MG installed,
NEW advanced FCS/
KNIGHT III optics as carried on
MERKAVA 4 and "
the kicker" was it also was equipped with the
same ceramic applique armor as the MERKAVA 4 as well, along with that, it also had Israeli ERA bolt on kits, which is some of the best in the world. These by definition (
RESET) were brand new tanks.
But this is where my Turkish nightmare would begin. In fact I'll have to fix it again.
I hope I've improved since then, I liked the way my last flowed especially since that one which is like watching a tennis match, ADD, CHANGE, MODIFY (And isn't that the same as changing it? Well I didn't make that connection until later.) and DELETE. It would start again maybe in a different random order.
No wonder Don would lose some hair back then!?!
Well anyway it could use a couple of new pictures as I believe we have two
M-60T tanks in the game. So I'll leave you with 4 or 5 to chose from and these are Turkish and
NOT Israeli
M-60 SABRE series of tanks. That was the other confusing thing I remember concerning the
M-60T people kept wanting to add that "
SABRE" when the M-60T was truly a
stand alone version built admittedly from some of the
better aspects of the
Israeli M-60 SABRE and made better as noted above concerning the
MERKAVA aspects of it.
It's late here are those pictures and folks don't let me slip back "to the old days"...
A little something for when I'm ready to tackle the
TURKISH MBT RABBIT HOLE!! One big PITA!! And I ain't talking about the kind you eat! And they
still use LEOPARD 1 tanks!!
http://www.tanks-encyclopedia.com/Turkish-Tanks.php
https://tankandafvnews.com/2016/04/2...ornet-missile/
http://defense-update.com/20171026_m60_upgrades.html
Note Para 4 of the last ref. I found the comparison of ops between Turkey's
LEOPARD 2A4 and
M-60T most interesting.
Regards,
Pat
