The main improvements are in the fire-control system. These conversions included the installation of a Tank Thermal Sight (TTS). In 1987 it ordered 150 conversion kits to convert M60A1 tanks into M60A3s at a cost of US$120 million. In January 1983, Saudi Arabia placed an order for 100 M60A3 MBTs at a total cost, including spares and other support equipment, of US$176 million. The Army had 5,400 M60A3 TTS tanks, 1,686 of which are new production M60A3s, 114 are M60A1 passive tanks field-retrofitted to M60A3 TTS configuration, and 3,600 are conversions carried out by the Mainz Army Depot in Germany and Anniston Army Depot in the USA. In 1978, the M60A1 monthly production rate was 116 tanks at Detroit. The first M60A3s completed at the Detroit Arsenal Tank Plant in February 1978 were the first of a low rate of initial production quantity of 296 M60A3s which were funded in the FY76 transitional quarter and FY77. The M60A3 (development designation M60A1E3) is a product-improved M60A1 and some of the improvements in the tank, for example the add-on stabilisation system, the RISE engine and the smoke grenade launchers, were first fitted to the M60A1 some years ago.
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