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armyjunk2
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Posted: Tue Aug 14, 2007 7:08 pm Post subject: REDMOND OREGON M-60A3
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Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 10:28 am Post subject: Re: REDMOND OREGON M-60
I believe thats an A3 because of the windage sensor right??? Did you happen to get an SN off the tow lug? Neil

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Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 11:08 am Post subject: Re: REDMOND OREGON M-60
Hi Neil! Hi Folks! - Neil_Baumgardner I believe thats an A3 because of the windage sensor right??? Neil You are correct sir, it is an A3! Sgt, Scouts Out! _________________ "You can never have too much reconnaissance." General G.S. Patton Jr.

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Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 11:33 am Post subject: Re: REDMOND OREGON M-60
- Neil_Baumgardner I believe thats an A3 because of the windage sensor right??? Did you happen to get an SN off the tow lug? Neil ....Oh Neil, its more commonly known as a 'wind Sensor' but not trying to split hair's here. Note Gun tube: -A3 has thermal shroud which is usually more easily visible than wind sensor. Its a dead giveaway. Don

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Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 4:50 pm Post subject: Re: REDMOND OREGON M-60
- Dontos Note Gun tube: -A3 has thermal shroud which is usually more easily visible than wind sensor. Its a dead giveaway. Don If they were still fitted maybe... I prefer the MBSGD mounts. _________________ TTFN Jim If your not a member of JED then your not serious about anything military.. ********************* www.jedsite.info JED Military Equipment *********************

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Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 5:14 pm Post subject: Re: REDMOND OREGON M-60A3
Jim, ... I prefer the MBSGD mounts. Multi-Banked Smoke Grenade Discharge mounts??? If that's the acronym they fitted the M239's (L8A1 discharger I believe) on M60A1's too . Joe D

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Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2007 10:27 pm
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Jim,

... I prefer the MBSGD mounts.

Multi-Banked Smoke Grenade Discharge mounts???

If that's the acronym they fitted the M239's (L8A1 discharger I believe) on M60A1's too .

Joe D

Only on the M60A1 AOS and how many of them have you seen around? Besides didn't the AOS have that small cast cover on the glacis behind the lhs headlight cluster?

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Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 9:13 am Post subject: Re: REDMOND OREGON M-60A3
Too many earlier versions of the M60A1 series were retrofitted with the smoke grenade launchers for it to be a definitive identifier of the "A3". Splitting hairs even more, it is a Crosswind Sensor. Here's a photo some just posted in the NTC Desert Guard thread. Clearly an A1 (search light, open range finder blister, no thermal shroud) and clearly has grenade launchers. _________________ RobG

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Posted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 9:38 am Post subject: Re: REDMOND OREGON M-60A3
This was the last rotation for M60A1's at NTC, in the summer of 87. They were in horrible shape. Look at the condition of the tracks!

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