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I've discovered a massive blind spot in my tank knowledge.
It was a matter of common knowledge to us in 1988 that ONLY the M1 Abrams had anything to see in the dark.
That's not true, and the dudes at 1/4 Cav showed us with their M60A3 (TTS). TTS means Tank-Thermal-Sight.
While our thermal sight used the same eyepiece as the primary sight, theirs was a big round TV screen near the gun controls.
M60A3 (TTS) gunner's hole; L->R Gunner's auxiliary sight, gunner's primary sight, thermal sight.
It's big and easy to use!
But, before the TTS, the M60 and M48 used a big ass spotlight mounted over the barrel with an IR filter to illuminate targets in the dark.
I discovered that I don't know what form of sight was used to see the IR illumination.
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