'Tanker Old School' — The M60 Story Never Told Right скачать в хорошем качестве

'Tanker Old School' — The M60 Story Never Told Right

If you know the sound of that good old diesel engine, you've already heard the official story. Fuel economy. Harder to set on fire. Both true. But there's a third reason most tank videos never mention, and once you hear it, it changes how you understand not just the M60, but the Abrams, and what's coming next.That third reason wasn't about saving money or preventing fires. It was about surviving the first seventy-two hours of World War Three. Let's back up.The M60 descended from a lineage that ran from the M26 Pershing in 1945 through the M46, M47, and M48 Pattons — each one America's iterative answer to Soviet armor that kept getting better and kept getting more numerous. By the mid-1950s, the M48 was in service and already showing its age, powered by a gasoline-burning Continental AV-1790 that drank fuel at a rate its crews found alarming and caught fire with a frequency they found terrifying. The switch from gasoline to diesel was coming regardless. But the specific diesel that went into the M60, and what the Army demanded that diesel be able to do — that's where the story everybody else misses actually begins.