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The Gundlach Periscope, usually known under its British designation as Vickers Tank Periscope MK.IV, was a revolutionary invention by Polish engineer Rudolf Gundlach, manufactured for Polish 7TP tanks from the end of 1935 and patented in 1936 as the Peryskop obrotowy Gundlacha.
The Vickers Main Battle Tank Mk. 4 later known as the Vickers Valiant was a main battle tank ... The loader has at his disposal one AFV No.10 Mk.1 rotating periscope.
They were built at the Vickers Scotswood factory in Newcastle between 1977 and 1981. In 1981, after five years of negotiations, Vickers signed a £115 million contract to provide 108 Mk. 3N "Eagle" tanks, 15 Mk. 3 AVLBs and 18 Mk. 3 ARV/ARRVs to the Nigerian Army. Tanzania took delivery of two Mk. 3 ARVs which are used to recover Chinese ...
Vickers Mk. 7/1 : original version, it was successfully tested in Egypt in 1985. Vickers Mk. 7/2 : new turret with improved armour protection and fire control system for better fire-on the-move capability. The new turret is designed to better suit the 1.98 m turret ring of the Leopard 2 hull instead of the 2.15 m of the Vickers Valiant. [9]
A video of the couple noticing the rings were gone, and reacting to the twist, has since gone viral on social media, reaching 10 million views on Instagram.
Larry Vickers, a popular creator of YouTube gun videos, may get a prison sentence after he pleaded guilty in October to two federal crimes including a conspiracy to import illegal machine guns ...
Periscopes have also been used on aircraft for sections with limited view. The first known use of aircraft periscope was on the Spirit of St. Louis. The Vickers VC10 had a periscope that could be used on four locations of the aircraft fuselage, [15] V-Bombers such as the Avro Vulcan and Handley Page Victor [16] and the Nimrod MR1 as the "on top ...
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