2017年7月7日 · Turret. The M60A2 featured a unique Gun/Launcher mounted in a new, low profile “space age” turret. It consisted of a large disk with a narrow channel in the center. Each crew member in the turret had their own hatch, a rare feature in tanks.

The M60A2 featured a unique low profile turret, mounting the M162 Gun/Launcher that drastically reduced the turret's frontal arc in comparison to the A1's. It consisted of a large disk with a narrow channel in the center with each crew member in the turret having their own hatch.

d. M60A2 (fig 2-3). The M60A2 armament, which includes a 152-mm gun launcher (M162), capable of firing either conventional ammunition or missiles, is mounted to the turret in a combination mount with a coaxially mounted 7.62-mm machine-gun (M219); a cupola-mounted caliber .50 machine-gun and two firing stations, one on each side of the turret ...

The CEV is a full-tracked armored vehicle which consists of a basic M60A1 tank with a front-mounted, hydraulically-operated dozer blade, surmounted by a turret bearing a 165mm demolition gun, a retractable boom of welded tubular construction, and a winch.

The M60A2 used the Type B turret which featured an unconventional low profile design. The turret base was disc shaped and was very low profile, while the center part was much larger and consisted of a lane running front to rear that mounted the gun breech and behind that the commander's position.

2016年12月27日 · The turret was very compact – and a reduced frontal silhouette provides a massive advantage in tank combat. Its development was based on the idea of using an automatically loaded remote-controlled gun installed in the turret while having the crew below the turret in an armored capsule.

2011年7月7日 · This new tank with a smaller turret was developed in the 1960s, but was not contracted until 1971, when the Army agreed to purchase 526 rebuilt vehicles with the new turret. This became the...

2016年7月7日 · The base-model tank, with the turret from the M48A2, was superseded by the M60A1 in October 1961, and the former went out of production a year later after a total of 2200 had been manufactured. As well as the elongated turret, the new variant had detail changes to the running gear, and a steering T-bar in place of the original wheel.

While the initial M60 MBT still featured a rounded turret, the later M60A1 and M60A3 variants featured a wedge-shaped turret design. The M60A2 was armed with a 152mm M162 gun launcher capable of firing either conventional ammunition or missiles. The M60A1 Armored Vehicle Launched Bridge (AVLB) was designed for use by engineers.

2012年1月15日 · The M60A2, nicknamed the "Starship" [10] due to its Space Age like technology, featured an entirely new low-profile turret with a commander's machine-gun cupola on top, giving the commander a good view and field of fire while under armor but spoiling the low profile.