ESCI – 8318 – M60 “Blazer”

Description:

M60 “Blazer”

Unassembled plastic model kit in 1/72 scale of a U.S. M60 tank, upgraded by Israel with Blazer ERA, new turret and extra machine guns. Israel performed this upgraded to all their fleet, M60, M60A1 and M60A3.

This kit is a variation of kit ESCI – 8317 – M60 A3 with a new sprue which adds the ERA blocks, a new cupola (Israeli Urdan low profile cupola) and three machine guns, one .50cal well tooled, and two 7.62mm not well tooled.

This kit was reissued by Italeri as  Italeri – 7073 – MAGACH 6, Magach refers to the Israeli upgrade program, different numbers mean different upgrades in the tanks, Magach 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 were applied to M48 tanks and Magach 6 and 7 to M60 tanks.

See the parent kit ESCI – 8315 – M60 A1 Patton with more details about the ESCI M60 tanks series.