Military Vehicles 1960-1969
The Cold War brought about the very real threat of all-out war in Europe - yet again - and escalated the situation in Vietnam.
There are a total of 55 Military Vehicles from 1960 - 1969 in the Military Factory. Entries are listed below in alphanumeric order. Flag images indicative of country of origin.
1967
The French-made AMX VCI (for "Vehicule de Combat d'Infanterie") infantry combat system was designed to a specific French Army...
1966
The AMX-30 stemmed from a post-World War 2 design that saw many nations in Europe attempting to refit and update their armor ...
1964
The BM-21 "Grad" is a specialty weapon utilized by over 65 countries in one form or another and, despite her Cold War origins...
1969
Since the tactic of utilizing airborne troops came to lethal fruition in World War 2, there always lay the challenge of outfi...
1966
The Soviet military was first major military power to widely adopt the concept of an "armored fighting infantry carrier" thro...
1967
The Bravia Chaimite V-series of light armored vehicles is a Portuguese-designed and produced 4x4 armored personnel carrier (A...
1966
The BRDM-2 primarily served as an armored scout car with the Soviet Army during the height of the Cold War. She was a direct ...
1960
The armored 8x8 wheeled BTR-60 of 1960 was developed as a direct replacement for the 6x6 wheeled BTR-152 series Armored Perso...
1965
The original Centurion Main Battle Tank (A41) of 1945 was a hugely successful British Army initiative enacted during World Wa...
1963
The FV432 was a solid, if unspectacular, armored personnel carrier for the British Army, seeing over 3,000 in total productio...
1966
The Kaiser Jeep Model 530 6X6 was a firefighting truck that first saw production 1966. She was an important vehicle, oft-ove...
1965
In World War 2 the German Army developed tank hunters, the "Panzerjagers" or tank destroyers - a classification of armored ve...
1965
The German war-making capacity was dismantled by the victors following the end of the war in Europe. The Soviet Union took Be...
1962
The M1068 SICPS was designed from the M113A2 armored personnel carrier chassis and was a further modification of the M577A2 d...
1963
Much like the 1960's era M113 armored personnel carrier, the M109 Paladin self-propelled gun has enjoyed a unique and long se...
1962
By the end of the Korea War (1950-1953), the American Army was in need of modernization to replace many of its weapon systems...
1960
The M113 armored personnel carrier can be regarded as one of the most successful post-war armored vehicles. No fewer than 80,...
1962
The M114 Command and Reconnaissance Carrier followed the ubiquitous M113 Armored Personnel Carrier (APC) series into operatio...
1960
The M151 Jeep is a multi-purpose utility vehicle that served a variety of battlefield roles. It represents a variation of the...
1969
The M163 Vulcan Air Defense System (VADS) mated the firepower of the United States Air Force's standard aerial cannon - the M...
1969
The Vulcan was a gattling six-barrel, short-range, 20mm-air defense weapon system. The Vulcan saw service with the 82nd Airbo...
1968
The M551 General Sheridan (or simply "Sheridan") was a light-armored and heavily-armed portable tank system utilized by the U...
1960
The M60 "Patton" Main Battle Tank began development in 1957 to counter rumors that the Soviets were working on a new main bat...
1969
The M727 is a tracked carrier vehicle designed to transport the Hawk guided missile system (known collectively under the desi...
1961
The M88 Hercules series began in the 1960s and had since run through three major conversions. The Hercules is designed as an ...
1968
Israel needed tanks to defend her borders from the Arab states and the American M48 tank was the best choice based on reliabi...
1965
The Cold War in Europe spanned from 1947 into 1991 and the undisputed enemy to the democratic world was the nuclear-armed Sov...
1960
The MIM-46 "Mauler" was an ill-fated attempt at a tracked mobile surface to air missile defense system for the US Army. The M...
1969
The M48 Chaparral SAM system consists of an infrared heat seeking missile, a launcher with a Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR) ...
1960
The French Army used the Panhard AML 60 / 90 series of light armored cars to replace the 1950s-era Daimler Ferrets. Scout / A...
1966
Though rarely considered a military powerhouse in the same breath as the United States, Great Britain or Russia, it seems tha...
1968
The SA-9 (NATO codename of "Gaskin" and formally designated by the Russians as the 9K31 Strela-1) was a four-wheeled mobile a...
1966
The Scandinavian Strv 103 'S-Tank' was an extreme departure from conventional main battle tank design in post-war Europe, or ...
1960
The T-34/100 (also known as the T-100) was a Egyptian-inspired tank destroyer conversion of the famous Soviet World War 2-era...
1961
After the end of World War 2, the Soviet military had officially replaced their war-winning T-34 Medium Tank series with the ...
1966
The natural progression of Soviet tank design during the years following World War 2 eventually produced the T-64 Main Battle...
1960
The Type 60 was a Japanese self-propelled 106mm recoilless rifle gun platform designed for use by the Japan Ground Self-Defen...
1961
After the close of hostilities in World War 2, the Japanese Empire was rightfully stripped of all war-making capabilities tha...
1963
Yet another in the long line of NORINCO designs inspired by Soviet-era purchases, the Type 62 (classified as a "light tank") ...
1963
The Chinese NORINCO-built Type 63 is in many ways a relative to the Soviet-designed and built PT-76 troop carrier. The weapon...
1963
The Type 63 was a self-propelled, tracked anti-aircraft defense system produced by NORINCO of China. The system featured the ...
1969
The Type 653 ARV is a basic battlefield Armored Recovery Vehicle (ARV) that is based on the Type 69 production MBT (Main Batt...
1969
The NORINCO-produced Type 69 is a further indigenous development based on previous Soviet hardware purchases. The Type 69 is ...
1960
The Japanese Type-60 was the first armored personnel carrier developed by the Mitsubishi and Komatsu companies in the post-Wo...
1965
The Vickers Main Battle Tank series was created with export customers in mind. It was soon discovered that foreign operators ...
1965
The ZSU-23-4 "Shilka" system has been - and in many examples continues to be - a much-feared anti-aircraft system for pilots ...
1960
The ZU-23-2 is a light, towed anti-aircraft / air defense system developed by the Soviet Union in the 1950s. Design work bega...
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