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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 M60 is old, but not down for the count just yet.
Like most heavy tanks, the size meant some compromises.
The M103 Tank Didn't Do Much - But Was a Heck of a Deterrent It was a tank that could do some hard-hitting and wouldn't need to run from a fight. Here's What You Need To Remember: In the late 1940s and early 1950s, there was fear in Washington over the Soviet Union's superiority in armored warfare. The Chrysler M103 was certainly not an ideal weapon - but it helped to alleviate those fears. When the tank was originally conceived during the First World War by the "Landship Committee," the concept was to have a lumbering vehicle that would be truly massive in size. That proved to be impractica...