"Favorite Cold War Tank?" Topic

Do you have a favorite?

My top 5 picks for FOW "Team Yankee" are:

Swedish S-Tank
Leopard 1
Chieftain
Centurion
M60

The M1IP. 105mm rifled cannon, old style brass shells, and that great shell grabber that the loader had to throw back and yell "up!" to arm the gun.

Gotta love the old beast. Going to the 120mm was the end of an era.

The M60A1. Because I spent so much of my life in them.

M60A2 Starship

Sheridan.

Centurian

Centurion

Also the M1IP. Driving that baby was a dream and gunning was a pleasure. Second is the M60A3. Gunning was great and loading the gun with sabot rounds was fun and quick due to the roomy turret.

-Scott

M60A1

PT-76.

T-80B

T-64 A/B/BV. Rather revolutionary, as far as tank design goes.

Followed closely by the Leopard-1. Pretty much all of Western Europe can't be wrong.

Leopard

M60a1

Sheridan and Swedish S-type.

M48A2

M60A3 and M1

Challenger. Holder of the record for the longest tank vs tank kill

MBT-70, just because it was so ludicrous.

Centurion.

The M60A1. Because I spent so much of my life in them.

Ditto

Chieftain.

Leopard 1A1A1.

Of course there were many others, and the MBT-70 was not ludicrous. Sure, would have been better with a 120mm cannon instead of the 152mm gun/missile system, but I suspect that was doable. The general concept helped create the M-1 tank, sans the adjustable height suspension.

Lots of other good ones of course, as well, including the M60A1/M60A3 (M60A2 is very cool too).

Chieftain V (Stillbrew is rather nice as well).

M41
M47
M48

Jagdpanzer Kanone – granted, not really a tank, but it is still very neat.

S-Tank – again, not a tank really, but cool nonetheless.

For the communists:
T-64
T-72
T-80

Chieftain STILLBREW. Preferably in Berlin Brigade cam scheme!

Berlin Brigade 'Held until relieved' 1945-1994

Has to be the one that carries the most cooled beers and a kettle,

Tally Ho!

Always liked the T54/55 myself, it just looks right somehow.

Centurion – went everywhere, performed outstandingly. THE tank of the Cold War.

Second the Berlin Brigade Chieftains!
I know plenty of the guys in the photo from my time with their REME support.

Chieftain for me too (Berlin Brigade for preference).

cent

Certainly has to be the longest in service…1945-and still going I think, in South Africa as the Oliphant, and maybe Israel is still running Shots…

Sh'ots long our of service but it forms the basis of the Nagmash'ot assault vehicle.

M60A3 roomy, a great camping tank. The thermals were awesome as well.

T-62 and M60A2

The mighty Centurion

Leopard II, the big boxy original.

Also, M1

Think we can do almost all of those :-)

Centurion, then a Leopard II.

Although the one used most in combat was the T-55. Like the AK-47, everybody had one.

Object 273 Troya Tank

ONTOS

S-Tank

MBT-70

Wiesel

Ti-67

Commando V-150 series

M60A3. Although the M60A1 wasn't a bad one, either.

M-24 "Chaffee". Korean War, French Indo China War, Algeria, Vietnam War.

Also Norwegian upgrade (NM-17?) with 90mm low pressure gun, diesel engine, laser sight and other electronic upgrades. There is a 1/35 model kit of this version but 1/48 or 1/56 would require conversion. The muzzle brake looks very like the one on US M-48s.

When I was in chemical warfare school in 1970, a member of my class was a tank commander from Fort Hood whose answer to everything was "I have 13(?) inches of homogeneous armor between me and that". He was so smug that the rest of us decided to come up with ways that no more than 2 men could disable or destroy an M60A1 with common infantry/combat engineer weapons and supplies. We then presented him with a different procedure every day for three weeks.

So, naturally, the M60A1 is my favorite Cold War tank.

LT

I'll vote T-55 just for sheer numbers in Warsaw Pact allied formations until the T-72 came online.

M47 and M103

Centurion. A valid candidate for one of the best tanks of all time.

M60A3 roomy, a great camping tank. The thermals were awesome as well.

When you had a working heater!

I'll go with the M60A3 despite the M1 tankers calling us dinosaurs!

IMO the M60 series is more representative of the cold war than the M1 anyway.

M60A3…TTS….

No matter what they say, "YES the breech of the main gun WILL hold a bottle of JD.."

and yes..each grenade box will hold a six pack and keep them cold….

The bore of the Abram's 120mm will hold a liter bottle of vodka.

Thing is, the entire bottle will be atomized and then ignited when the projectile goes through the vapor cloud. Cue calls of "cease-fire" and " was that?!?" as you get a tank-sized blue fireball instead of the usual red-orange at night.

Wow, not much love for the M1 Abrams. Well I vote for it. A total of 3,273 M1 Abrams were produced 1979–85 and first entered U.S. Army service in 1980. The classic Cold War tank and still the best today. It will kick the butt of any tank mentioned so far.