![]() It is fitted with an M36 90 mm gun mounted in a large cast turret and a Continental AV-1790 12 cylinder air cooled turbo charged 810 hp gas engine. This example came out of the Spanish Army in the 1980s and was imported to the United States in the late 1980s. The M47 can still be found in reserve with a few armies around the world. During the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965, the Pakistanis had 400 M47s in service and the tank was retired in the early 2000s. military forces, the M47 did see combat with foreign nations in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East and fared well against Soviet armor. Although never engaged in combat with U.S. Over 8,500 M47s were manufactured between Detroit Tank Arsenal and American Locomotive Company from 1951 to 1953 and used by some 21 nations. It was replaced by the M48 Patton III in the late 1950s. ![]() and NATO forces during the early years of the Cold War and represented America’s first all new tank system developed since World War II. Designed to replace the M4 Sherman, M26 Pershing and M46 Patton tank classes, the M47 Patton, or Patton II, was an interim main battle tank for U.S. ![]()
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