This will be one of about six MBTs I'll be making a push for this year. This tank has been misrepresented by type (Though even a nationally published Israeli paper identifies it's origin correctly.), been misnamed, I think under armored etc. and just needs a second look within the game. It has gone through a "zero mile" upgrade (A term used by several sources in describing other programs.) which means they've been completely stripped down to "parade rest" reworked and completely upgraded from the inside out. Again this and others will be submitted on "the list" from me within I hope a couple of weeks to a month. This first candidate owes it's
modernized pedigree to a lesser extent from the IDFs SABRA but more so to the MERKAVA 3 (BAZ from some sources.) and MERKAVA 4 (Armor, FC and Tracks etc.).
The Turkish M-60T. The first article comes from one the first sources to report on the M-60T Israeli/Turkish joint effort.
http://defense-update.com/wp/2010090...m60t_debu.html as Turkey celebrates it's "Victory Day" earlier this month.
The next one has a nice overview of Turkish forces overall; but note the comments by the M-60A3 TTS and
more importantly the one's by the M-60A1 RISE/Passive (Which might be another Turkish OOB issue for their M-60A1 tanks?) this source is backed up by others already presented in this thread.
http://www.defencetalk.com/forums/ar...hp/t-2324.html
And since everyone loves a parade
here's a pic:
For further background on this thread concerning the M-60T please refer to PG.2 Posts #15 & #17, PG.3 Post #25 and
PG.6 Post #58.
Regards,
Pat
(Kind of reminds me partly of my "old" job.)