![]() An option for the supply of a second batch, that would have received much-improved armor and active protection and enhanced fire controls were not exercised by the Turks as diplomatic relations between Ankara and Jerusalem drifted apart. These 170 tanks were the first batch of upgraded M-60T tanks. These tanks have seen extensive combat service in the Syrian front recently, and seem to have fared much better than the Turkish Leopard 2A4 tanks. Turkey has also operated M-60, part of these were modernized M-60T that received major Israeli designed upgrades. ![]() In the recent years, these old warhorses are heavily used in combat operations, in Yemen and Sinai, where they face irregular but heavily equipped opposition (Iranian equipped Houthis in Yemen, ISIS in Sinai), where they displayed questionable performance.īoth Egypt and Saudi Arabia have suffered significant losses to anti-tank weapons (RPGs, ATGM etc).
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