A decommissioned M60-A3 Main Battle Tank was dedicated on May  29, 1999 at the park in honor of the military service provided by residents of Lycoming County - past, present and future.

The M60 is one of the world’s most successful main battle tanks with 15,000 having been produced and serving in the armies of 22 countries.

The tank has provided proven battlefield performance over four decades and has been continuously advanced and upgraded with advanced weapon control, ammunition, applique armour and increasingly powerful engines. The M60 series main battle tanks of Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the US were deployed in Operation Desert Storm in 1991 during the Gulf Crisis.

M60 tanks entered service with the US Army in 1960. The M60A1 with a new turret, thicker armour and a new ammunition stowage system, was manufactured from 1962 to 1980. The development of the M60A2 with a new turret fitted with a 152mm gun and missile launcher was halted and effort was directed to the development and production of the highly successful M60A3 tank, which incorporated improvements to the gunfire control and entered service in 1978.

The manufacturer, General Dynamics Land Systems Division, has ceased production of the tank but continues to provide fleet management support to the US Army Tank Automotive Command and to user countries worldwide.

The US Army phased M60A3 out of service in 1997 and it was superseded by M1 Abrams, a third-generation main battle tank.

As of 2010, Egypt is operating around 1,700 upgraded M60A3s while Turkey and Israel are operating 900 and 700 units respectively.                                                  

M60 main battle tank upgrades

An international team of contractors have developed an upgrade package for the M60 tank and for the M60 armoured vehicle launch bridge. The team includes General Dynamics Land Systems based in Sterling Heights, Michigan, Allison Transmission in Indianapolis and Nimda Company based in Givataim, Israel.

GDLS has built a prototype of the 120S MBT, which is an M1A1 turret mounted on an upgraded M60 chassis. The 120S is armed with a 120mm M256 smoothbore gun and has a computerized fire control system.