Nyorai mberi kweiyi ndima - M60 yakasvika pakukwanisa kushanda pakugoverwa kuUS Army zvikamu zveEurope kutanga muna December 1960. Yokutanga kurwa kushandiswa M60 akanga Israeri panguva 1973 Yom Kippur War apo akaona basa pasi "Magach 6" zita, kuita zvakanaka muhondo pamusoro akaenzana nematangi akadai T-62. Muna 1982 vaIsraeri vakashandisa zvakare M60 panguva 1982 Lebanon Hondo, vakapakata upgrades akadai zvinoputika reactive zvombo zvokurwisa kuzvidzivirira pamusoro guided zvombo kuti vakaratidza kubudirira chaizvo pakuparadza matangi. M60 yakashandiswawo muna 1983 panguva yeOperation Urgent Fury
, vachitsigira mauto eU.S. Marine pakurwisa kweGrenada. M60s yakapiwa kuIran yakashandiswawo muIran-Iraq War. United States 'kukura deployment pamusoro M60s aiva 1991 Gulf War, apo US Marines akashongedzerwa M60A1s zvinobudirira akakunda Iraqi zvombo, kusanganisira T-72 matangi. United States yakasiya basa M60 kubva pamberi-mutsetse kurwa pashure Operation Desert Storm, pamwe okupedzisira matangi vari pamudyandigere kubva National Guard basa muna 1997. Motokari dzeM60 dzichiri kushandiswa mumauto enyika dzakawanda, kunyange zvazvo dzakawanda dzacho dzakagadziridzwa zvikuru uye dzakasimudzirwa simba radzo rokupfura, kufamba uye kudzivirirwa kuti dziwedzere kushanda kwadzo muhondo yemazuva ano.