Keeping Up with the Pattons

M46, M47, M48 and M60. They saw action in Korea, Vietnam, The Gulf and held the line in the Cold War. For almost 40 years the US produced a succession of good tanks – but they never seemed to be good enough for the top brass.

Time after time, designers sought a perfection that seemed to lay out of reach until the arrival of the step-changing M1 Abrams.

00:00 | Introduction
00:58 | From Pershing to Patton
03:50 | Replacing the M46
06:25 | A Third Patton
10:01| Yet Another Stopgap
12:44 | Irreplaceable?

Credit to : The Tank Museum

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