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The M60 Patton first saw combat action with Israel, during the 1973 Yom Kippur War, and then the 1982 Lebanon War. The US first used their tank during Operation Urgent Fury, the invasion of Grenada, in which US forces overwhelmed the tiny island nation in days.
The M60 Patton incorporated a British-designed 105mm gun as its main gun and was thus able to destroy any known enemy tank – a sharp answer to the woes of the M4 Sherman's 75mm gun against the armor of Nazi German Tigers during WWII.
The Abrams can sip diesel, gasoline, or marine diesel for fuel, but it is optimized to run on jet fuel.
The M60 was the impetus for a new US approach to armored warfare that was displayed in Operation Desert Storm.