M60A2 Starship - A Bold Design, But Turned Out to be Disappointing

The two most popular production versions of M60 were M60A1 and M60A3.
But there was a special version: the M60A2, which is commonly known under its nickname “Starship.” The M60A2 is, much like Sheridan.
Only 540 M60A2s were built, compared to 8,000 M60A1s and 1,000 M60A3s. By 1982, almost every M60A2 was replaced by a turret, reused with a traditional 105mm and converted into an M60A3 model.
The M60A2 was designed as a stop-gap vehicle until the joint US-German MBT-70 project was ready for service. This project was intended to provide both the United States and German militaries with one Main Battle Tank.
The United States ordered the M60A2 in 1971, however, production did not start until 1973, and continued through 1975, at the Chrysler Tank Plant in Warren, Michigan.
The M60A2 Starship had a short service life succumbing to the same failings of Sheridan, concerning the missile system. The new turret design did little to help matters, largely isolating crew members into different portions of the vehicle, complicating maintenance of the somewhat unreliable components of this ‘space-age’ tank. All of these issues contributed to the M60A2 Starship being of less than stellar performance and largely useless as much more than an infantry support vehicle, though admittedly, the short barrel length could let it move and fight in a jungle a bit easier than a tank with a longer barrel, but the vehicle was never deployed to Vietnam.

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