Although Continental is most well known for its engines for light aircraft, it was also contracted to produce the air-cooled V-12 AV-1790-5B gasoline engine for the U.S. Army's M47 Patton tank and the diesel AVDS-1790-2A and its derivatives for the M48, M60 Patton and Merkava main battle tanks.
The interior of an American M48 Patton tank, situated outside, can be entered via a flight of steps.
M48 Patton, a tank model in service from the mid-1950s through the Vietnam War with the U.S. Army, and still operational in foreign service
George S. Patton | Patton Oswalt | M60 Patton | Paul E. Patton | M48 Patton | M47 Patton | Troy Patton | Patton | Laurie Patton | Paul Patton | Mike Patton | M48 | Charley Patton | Paul R. Patton | Patton Versus Rommel | John Patton | John M. Patton | Robert M. Patton | Patton, Missouri | Patton (film) | M48 motorway | John Patton (musician) | Janelle Patton | James French Patton | George S. Patton | Feelin' Kinda Patton | Donovan Patton |
These units, plus an independent tank destroyer squadron, amounted to 135 tanks; 24 M47 and M48 Pattons, about 15 M36B1s and the remainder Shermans.