Pz-61

The Pz-61 is a Swiss tank that entered service in 1965. It was armed with a 105mm main gun and weighed 37 tonnes. The tank was powered by a 630hp diesel engine which gave it a top road speed of 31 mpg . Armour varied between 60 and 20mm.

In total 150 units were produced at the RUAG Land Systems facility at Thun [http://www.janes.com/extracts/extract/jaa/jaa_0067.html] .

The chassis was used as the basis of the Entpannungspanzer 65 armoured recovery vehicle cite book |last=Chant |first=Christopher |title=A Compendium of Armaments and Military Hardware|year=1987 |publisher=Routledge | pages = p.10 |isbn=0710207204] and for the the intial of the prototype of the Brückenlegepanzer 68. [http://www.janes.com/extracts/extract/jmvl/jmvl0200.html]

It was superseded by the Pz-68cite book |last=Ford |first=Roger |title=The World's Great Tanks from 1916 to the present day|year=1997 |publisher=Brown Packaging Books Ltd | pages = p.121 |isbn=189788429X ]

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