QUOTE: Originally posted by DURR
quote Back when I started modeling "seriously" in the mid 80s, Vietnam era kits were the only modern kits we had to build. Even the Tamiya M60A1 and M60A2 were of Vietnam vintage, although did not see combat in theater. It wasn't until Tamiya released the M1, M2/3 and M151A2 that we had decent post-Vietnam modern US armor. Vietnam armor wasn't ignored, the majority of Tamiya's early 1/35 scale US armor was from that war.
rob g this is your quote from my posting on vietnam armor
said they did not use pattons there
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I stand by my words, you are just using it out of context. The US Army did not use the M60, M60A1 or M60A2 in Vietnam. The main armor threat was in Germany and the M48A2 and M48A3 was deemed good enough to defeat any enemy armor in Vietnam.
No where in my post did I say
"they did not use pattons there". Those are your words, not mine. As Gino states, the Patton name was given to the entire line of tanks to evolve from the M26 Pershing and includes the M46, M47, M48 and M60.
If you really want to get technical, the US did use two variants of the M60 in Vietnam. One is the M60 AVLB and the other is the M728 CEV, both engineer variants. Neither variant was used in great numbers.