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17 March 2023
by Kapil Kajal
Taiwan has announced that the country is upgrading its M60A3 MBTs, an example of which is pictured above with the US Army, with 1,000 hp engines. (General Dynamics Land Systems)
Taiwan has announced plans to upgrade the US-made M60A3 main battle tanks (MBTs) in service with the Republic of China Army (RoCA).
Ministry of National Defense (MND) of Taiwan has awarded a contract worth USD241 million to US-based engine manufacturer Renk America (RA) for supplying its AVDS 750 hp engines to modernise the M60A3 fleet in service with RoCA, RA told
Janes.
RA said that the AVDS engines are 12-cylinder, turbocharged, air-cooled diesel engines. The mechanical configuration of the engines is 90° between two cylinders, which is also called V configuration. The power of the engine ranges from 750 to 1,200 hp.
According to
Janes Land Warfare Platforms: Armoured Fighting Vehicles,
the M60 is produced by now General Dynamics Land Systems and
is armed with a 105 mm gun and has a crew of four. Between 1960 and 1987, it was produced in several variants , and was used as a basis for numerous support variants.
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