M103A1 Heavy Tank

Introduced in 1957, the M103 was designed to take on Soviet heavy tanks such as the later IS and T-10 models if World War III followed a conventional war. It was armd with a 120mm M58 gun and two 0.3 cal M1919A4E1 machine guns. The M103 served in Europe in a heavy tank battalion although never saw combat. The M103A1 was produced in 1959 from 219 converted M103 with a new sight, an M14 ballistic computer and a turret basket. The turret also had new electric traverse and one of the machine guns

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