The Washington State Department of Transportation used tanks to bring down unstable snow safely before it could become a dangerous avalanche.

The U.S. would more properly apply the M60 in Operation Desert Storm, which happened to feature some of world history’s biggest tank battles – the Battle of Medina Ridge and the Battle of Norfolk.

Like the M1 Abrams main battle tank (MBT) and the Apache family of helicopters, the U.S.-made M60 tank proved that upgrades over time can keep a weapon system viable for decades.

The latest updates have resulted in the Suleiman-402 main battle tank (MBT), a domestically-modernized variant of the M60 overseen by the Islamic Republic’s Defense Industries Organization.

Iran bought this M60 tank from the USA during the reign of King Shah in the 1970s during the Cold War. It was America’s main battle tank at that time. Iran’s military specializes in copying ...