The U.S. would more properly apply the M60 in Operation Desert Storm, which happened to feature some of world history’s biggest tank battles – the Battle of Medina Ridge and the Battle of Norfolk.

The M60 Patton: America’s Enduring Cold War Tank The M60 Patton was a second ... M60 in favor of the M1 Abrams MBT by the start of Desert Storm in 1991, the United States Marine Corps, one ...

the tank’s advanced NBC (nuclear, biological, and chemical) protection system ensured crew survivability in an environment where chemical weapons were a credible threat. Operation Desert Storm ...