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The British railway loading gauge required that the width should not exceed 10 ft 8 in (3.25 m) and the optimum width was 10 ft 3 in (3.12 m), [15] but, critically, for the new tank this restriction had been lifted by the War Office under pressure from the Department of Tank Design.
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After user trials, the first production vehicles were completed by Vickers at Elswick in 1956–57. Some Mk 2's used the hulls of former gun tanks or tugs but most were newly built as ARVs. From 1956 to 1960, the Swiss army bought 30 Entpannungspanzer 56 Centurion. These were used until 1991 with the numbers M + 78601 to M + 78630.
The M728 vehicle is used for breaching, obstacle removal, and pioneering operations. Although the M728 consists of a tank hull and a short-barreled turret, it is not a tank and should not be routinely used against enemy tanks. It is an excellent heavy assault support vehicle when used as part of a combined engineer-infantry team.
The Nagmachon evolved from the NagmaSho't armoured personnel carrier (APC), which in turn was based on Centurion tank Sho't hulls from the 1970s and 1980s. The vehicle carries thick belly armour designed to withstand mine -blasts and mountings on the front hull for various engineering devices such as mine plows , mine rollers and bulldozer blades .
As with the Centurion, Contentious was later up-gunned; first tested with the 84 mm 20 pounder, the Bovington example later gained a L7 105 mm gun, derived from the 20 pounder. [ 5 ] [ 9 ] The replacement was relatively easy, as the 105 mm is largely a rebarrelled version of the 84 mm and has a similar breech.
With tanks unable to leave the beaches, the raid stalled and failed. Following failure of the raid, a Royal Canadian Engineer officer, Lt J.J. Denovan who was attached to the Department of Tank Design, proposed a vehicle to protect engineers during assault operations. Development commenced based on the experiences at Dieppe.
The Centurion is used in reverse, the rear and front of the hull where swapped to add a rear ramp. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] 2 armament layouts were planned, a turret consisting of 12.7mm a machine gun and ZT3 Ingwe and the other one consisting of the M621 cannon , Anti-tank missile launchers and a coaxial machine gun. [ 9 ]