The US Military M48 Main Battle Tank 🔥

Some fun facts about one of the Australian Armour and Artillery Museum's newest exhibits - the cold war M48 Main Battle Tank!

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[AlanToon-fyhg]

The M48 was a brand new tank although it originally used the same drive train as the M47.
Note the aluminum road wheels on that example, taken from an M60...

[toms]

I've seen one of these in person and it is absolutely enormous

[mogaman]

We used it here in Spain until the late 90s, I think, when we started to buy and build Leopard tanks.

[nato]

I been here several times its about 15km north of Cairns Qld Australia... they do rides on tanks and have a shooting range below the entrance.... they have about 60 -70 tanks, the tiger was my favourite... get merch as well....

[chrisperrien]

Most M48 tankers were on the 90mm version back in Vietnam/Vietnam Era, . The 105mm 48A5 conversions were put in USNG/USAR units not active units during the 1970's. Active units were getting the M60A3

[playerb]

As we speak i am a commander on the upgraded MOLF version of the M48A5 in the Greek army

[badcallsign]

This guy gives just outstanding presentations every time. Great info.

[wulfmaer]

I was on the M60A1 with the 4th inf div back in 79 thru 82 and did a stint of extreme cold weather training on the M48A5 at Fort Drum NY and I loved the A5! It drove like a little sports car compared to big pig A1 (the A1 was underpowered and sluggish). The A5 also has a cool little square wheel for the driver as opposed to the T-bar on the A1. I loved driving the thing. It was so zippy...but also much smaller inside than the A1 and felt very confined in comparison.

[pex_the_unalivedrunk]

that cast hull frontal nose is what makes the M-48 distinguishable from the M-60 (which was straight line welded between the upper and lower glacis plate) although early M-60 shared the same turret as M-48. M-103 however, was the true beast, with it's old school 120mm rifled gun...but the 105 was pretty universal and still a viable weapon today...gotta love being able to fire just about anything out of it...maybe even Crocs, Roos, or Drop Bears too!

[billyponsonby]

Excellent but Aussie shorts are often too short.

[ellinganderson]

In my combat engineer company we had an avlb (armored vehicle launched bridge) on a m48 hull in the 1980s

[neald]

Fantastic channel. Well done everyone involved

[Dutch]

I think I remember Spain selling these as surplus not too long ago, super cool.

[ShocktrooperWT]

What is that mounted on the m47's barrel, almost looks like a tow missile?

[paoloviti]

Interesting video but in 1976 when I did compulsory military service in Italy there was no M48 with still a lot of M47 and a few of M60 but in truth we were all waiting for the Leopard 1A2 that we all find very cool....

[petesheppard]

An unexpected bonus, discovered in Vietnam, was that the curved ('boat-shaped') underside of the cast hull was effective in deflecting the blast of IEDs (they have been around as long as explosives) to the sides, providing some protection for the crews.

[angelo_giachetti]

The angled hull is so thick its hard to imagine anything can penetrate it.

[ismaelginger]

If that m48 served in Spain probably has all the important parts with lower quality handmade spares 😂

[simonrooney]

This drove really well at aus armour fest

[iatsd]

And they were close to complete crap in direct tank on tank combat; they tended to burn when they were hit by almost anything because the hydraulic lines inside would rupture and flash ignite, burning the crew and igniting anything flammable inside. The Indians found they could get the Pakistani M47's and M48's to burn at 2km range by hitting them with non-penetration hits from old APDS. Being cast, they were also extremely vulnerable to HESH.