 The M88 series has seen action most noticeably in the Vietnam War, the Persian Gulf War, the Iraq War, and the War in Afghanistan, and to a lesser extent during the Kosovo War, where they were deployed to help recover heavy armored vehicles of the Allied ground units.As of 2000, the M88A2 replacement cost is around .The design of this vehicle was based on the chassis and parts of the automotive component of the M48 Patton and M60 Patton tanks.