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All true. The following US tanks were developed from the M26;I beg leave to disagree with your, Sir. Of all tanks developed at the end of WW2, it is the British Centurion that holds the record for most-produced and most marks of production. In fact, in spite of having been designed in 1943, and put into production as the 'Black Prince' just before the end of the war in Europe, unlike the Pershing it never saw action. All that changed over the next almost fifty years in service - yup, there were variants of the Centurion taking part in Gulf War 1 as armoured engineer and recovery vehicles. A number of countries had them still in reserve service as recently as 2018.
However, I don't recall any variants of the Pershing with a similar history.
In service 1946–present (derivatives still in service) Wars Korean War
Suez Crisis
Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
Six-Day War
Indo-Pakistani War of 1971
War of Attrition
Black September
Yom Kippur War
Vietnam War
South African Border War
Operation Motorman (AVRE)
1978 South Lebanon conflict
Falklands War (BARV)
1982 Lebanon War
Operation Desert Storm (AVRE)
2006 Lebanon War
Syrian Civil War
M46 Patton
M47 Patton
M48 Patton
M60 Patton
Not to mention an enormous family of self propelled guns, recovery, bridgelayers and one APC that all used the various Patton chassis. I believe that variants of the Pattons saw service not just in Korea, Vietnam, but also all the little wars and in the Middle East. In fact I remember a development of the M60 that was to be for export market to at least get ahead of the T-72; the M60-2000? I do know the Israeli Military Industries developed updated Pattons and many vehicles also based on the Patton, they had a name for them, the Sabra?