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Vickers' entrant to this competition was the Type 253, though often known by the specification as the Vickers G.4/31. The Ministry had also ordered prototypes of other designs and some manufacturers had offered private ventures (aircraft built with their own money). The Type 253 was in competition with the Handley Page HP.47.
The Vickers Main Battle Tank Mk. 3 is a main battle tank by Vickers, a development of the Vickers MBT, and introduced in 1975 [3] for the export market. It was the last of the Vickers tanks to see sales in numbers abroad.
[1] [2] [3] XD816 1956 1956 1968 Royal Air Force: Brooklands Museum Weybridge, Surrey, England: On static display Cockpit only [4] [5] XD875 1957 August 27th, 1957 November 9th, 1962 Royal Air Force: Morayvia, Kinloss, Moray, Scotland: On static display Last Vickers Valiant ever built. Cockpit in preservation [6] [7] XD826 1956 December 15th ...
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]
This is the category for the Vickers group of companies, a defence and engineering company of the United Kingdom Wikimedia Commons has media related to Vickers . Subcategories
Designs were offered by Handley Page, Vickers, Fairey and Armstrong Whitworth as well as Parnall. The G.4/31 was a large angular biplane with fixed spatted wheel spats powered by a 690 hp (515 kW) Bristol Pegasus IM3 with a Townend ring .
It was followed by a further 19 aircraft built wholly by Canadian Vickers, production continuing until October 1940. [8] The Northrop Delta was the first completely all-metal, stressed-skin aircraft built in Canada, however it was closely preceded by the Fairchild Super 71 , whose stressed skin construction was limited to the fuselage and not ...
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