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Tank, Light Mk VII also known as the Tetrarch tank; British light tank designed in 1938; 16"/50 caliber Mark 7 gun, an American naval gun used aboard Iowa-class battleships; Supermarine Spitfire Mk VII; high altitude Royal Air Force fighter variant with pressurised cabin; Mark 7 nuclear bomb (1951–1955), ; an American nuclear bomb; Mk 7 helmet
The most powerful tank engine available at that time was the German MTU MB 873 Ka-501 of the Leopard 2 and the Mk. 7 was designed to use this engine by using the chassis of the Leopard 2. In 1984 work commenced at Vickers Defence Systems on a new main battle tank which became the Mk. 7.
The Mark 7 gun was originally intended to fire the 2,240-pound (1,020 kg) Mark 5 armor-piercing shell. However, the shell-handling system for these guns was redesigned to use the "super-heavy" 2,700-pound (1,200 kg) APCBC ( Armor Piercing , Capped, Ballistic Capped) Mark 8 shell before any of the Iowa -class battleship 's keels were laid down.
The Tank Mark VIII (or "Liberty", after its engine) was an Anglo-American tank design of the First World War, a collaborative effort to equip France, the U.K., and the U.S. with a single heavy tank design built in France for an offensive in 1919. Testing of the design was not finished until after the war, and it was decided to build 100 ...
The Mark VIII tank also known as the Liberty or The International was a British-American tank design of the First World War intended to overcome the limitations of the earlier British designs and be a collaborative effort to equip France, the UK and the US with a single heavy tank design.
The BL 6-inch gun Mark VII (and the related Mk VIII) [h] was a British naval gun dating from 1899, which was mounted on a heavy travelling carriage in 1915 for British Army service to become one of the main heavy field guns in the First World War, and also served as one of the main coast defence guns throughout the British Empire until the 1950s.
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