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Vickers Carden-Loyd 3-man light tanks. See Light Tank Mk V and Light Tank Mk VI: A6 A6 Medium Tank, "16 Tonners"*, led to production of the Medium Tank Mk III: A7 A7 Medium Tank, 3 development tanks built, did not enter service [4] A8 A8 Experimental Medium Tank, Project cancelled* A9 Tank, Cruiser, Mk I: A10 Tank, Cruiser, Mk II: A11
The bright spots of British tank design included the Valentine, Churchill (A22), Cromwell (A27M), and Comet I (A34), which together made up a little over half of total British tank production during WWII. The Valentine was a reliable, heavily armoured infantry-support tank used successfully in the desert and by the Red Army as a light tank.
Ajax is the first British vehicle to be fitted with the Case Telescoped 40mm Cannon. [164] To be increased to 589 vehicles by 2029. [165] Boxer Germany: Armoured personnel carrier: 2 [166] (623 by 2032) Boxer is the new British Mechanised Infantry Vehicle (MIV), an eight-by-eight-wheeled, all-terrain, armoured transport vehicle.
Centurion [40] – main British early Cold War tank. Conqueror [41] – used from mid 50s to mid 60s to give long range anti-tank support to Centurions. Built to counter IS-3. Chieftain [42] – main British tank of Cold War and mid Cold War. Challenger 1 [43] – Main British tank late Cold War or 1980s.
On 22 March 2021, Ben Wallace presented the command paper, Defence in a Competitive Age to Parliament, which confirmed the British Army's plans to upgrade 148 Challenger 2 tanks for "around £1.3bn" and designate them Challenger 3. [49] [50] The MOD confirmed the contract with RBSL had been signed, valued at £800 million (USD$1 billion), on 7 ...
The Challenger 2 tanks the UK is supplying to Ukraine are expected to arrive in the war-torn country at the end of March. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said “everything is going according to plan ...
American armoured vehicles were purchased and sometimes re-fitted with British guns, and were used by British and British-supplied Allied forces throughout the war. Sherman IC and VC – Sherman I and Sherman V medium tank chassis adapted by the British with a redesigned turret to mount a British 17-pounder gun. The 17-pounder could knock out ...
The Universal Tank: British Armour in the Second World War Part 2. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, for Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers Museum. ISBN 978-0-11-290534-9. Fletcher, David (2017). British Battle Tanks: British-Made Tanks of World War II. Oxford: Osprey Publishing. ISBN 978-1-4728-2003-7. Perrett, Bryan (1993).