{"id":48199,"date":"2022-08-04T23:07:50","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T21:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=48199"},"modified":"2022-08-07T23:34:08","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T21:34:08","slug":"a-graveyard-of-abandoned-m-60-patton-tanks-in-the-colorado-desert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/08\/04\/a-graveyard-of-abandoned-m-60-patton-tanks-in-the-colorado-desert\/","title":{"rendered":"A graveyard of abandoned M-60 Patton tanks in the Colorado desert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In southern California, in the middle of the Colorado desert, there is a small town called Chiriaco Summit that doesn't even have its own city hall.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/06\/05\/the-lonely-remains-of-sherman-tanks-that-fought-in-the-battle-of-normandy\/\">The lonely remains of Sherman tanks that fought in the Battle of Normandy<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/07\/22\/fort-knox-a-tank-graveyard-next-to-the-site-that-guards-the-united-states-gold-reserve\/\">Fort Knox: a tank graveyard next to the site that guards the United States gold reserve<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>What there is at Chiriaco Summit is <a href=\"https:\/\/generalpattonmuseum.com\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a museum dedicated to General Patton<\/a>. It is a small museum, especially compared to other US military museums. What draws the attention of some people who pass by is that <strong>behind the museum there is a vacant lot in which eight M-60 Patton battle tanks rest.<\/strong> I found a couple of very similar videos showing this little tank graveyard. One of them was posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCcBUmAv85dqaLrjAA--uO6g\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Army Club<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"M60 Patton Tank Graveyard Military Museum\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-gQNObTKkG4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The other was posted by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/301steady\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">301steady<\/a>. Curiously, they are very similar videos, even in the shots they take:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"M-60 Patton Tank Graveyard\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SSSFHoUw3rA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As you can see in the screenshots below, <strong>most of the tanks are in relatively good condition<\/strong>, although devoid of chains, smoke grenade launchers and machine guns. <strong>The 105mm guns are intact:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52263494228_f277c1467d_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Nearly all tanks are of the M-60A1 variant<\/strong>, introduced in 1962, sporting a very unusual four-color desert camouflage: the MERDC Red Desert. It is a variant of the camouflage worn by US Army vehicles from 1975 until the 1984 adoption of the three-color NATO camouflage. They are possibly former Marine tanks (not far to the north is the Twentynine Palms Marine base).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52263962500_b75e80e2c7_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>In this graveyard there is also a Marine M-60A1 RISE Passive<\/strong>, a model that was fitted with ERA reactive armor plates in the late 1980s. In this case, the camouflage scheme it is more wooded than in the other tanks.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52263752324_f243a7a31e_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; margin:10px 0 10px 0;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In case you ever pass by, <a href=\"https:\/\/goo.gl\/maps\/pE7iNvEm44eAf9wP8\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">you can see here the location of the General Patton Memorial Museum on Google Maps<\/a>. The tank graveyard is located just north of the museum. Beware, the land is private. It is possibly accessed from the museum.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In southern California, in the middle of the Colorado desert, there is a small town called Chiriaco Summit that doesn&#8217;t even have its own city hall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12876,16877],"tags":[2421,17135,17137,9098,10431,673],"class_list":["post-48199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excluir-de-anotaciones-eng","category-ruins","tag-california","tag-chiriaco-summit","tag-general-patton-memorial-museum","tag-m-60-patton","tag-united-states","tag-us-marine-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}