1983 E Kilgore Rd - Google Maps
M-60 or an M-48?
1983 E Kilgore Rd - Google Maps
M-60 or an M-48?
I am fairly certain that is an M-60. I built the Plastic model of it when I was like 12 years old.
M60A0
SN1963; RN9B5304
http://the.shadock.free.fr/The_USA_Historical_AFV_Register.pdf
page 151
M-60.
I was trying to find the correct term(" track support rollers"
)
And the muzzle too is different on the M-48.
As shown on @smithsb’s excellent recognition slide, the turret on an M-60 is real short with no aft overhang. Which make it look older (or more Russian) than the predecessor M48.
No guessing involved now. It’s an M-60. Thanks all.
Easier way is to notice the flat glacis plate. The M48 series had a curved/rounded one.
But… the early M60s had the same turret shape as the M48s did (the later ones are pretty distinctive), so it’s stuff like the glacis shape and return rollers that are how they’re identified.
For further reference, the video “chats” on the two models from the Tank Museum youtube channel:
@FrenchDunadan
Quick-n-dirty, looking at Smithsb picture of tanks, from front to rear:1st wheel is idler/tension wheel, on the bottom are 6 road wheels and on top are the idler/support rollers and lastly is the drive sprocket.
The rear overhang thing on a turret @LSLGuy referred to is called the bustle