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Pages in category "Cold War armoured fighting vehicles of the United Kingdom" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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.
The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of British Armed Forces. Since the end of the Cold War, the British Army has been deployed to a number of conflict zones, often as part of an expeditionary force, a coalition force or part of a United Nations peacekeeping operation. [1]
Cold War armored fighting vehicles of the United States (1 C, 19 P) Pages in category "Armoured fighting vehicles of the Cold War" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
World War I armoured fighting vehicles of the United Kingdom (1 C, 11 P) World War II armoured fighting vehicles of the United Kingdom (1 C, 36 P) Cold War armoured fighting vehicles of the United Kingdom (1 C, 18 P)
Type 63 aka YW-531 armoured personnel carrier (Cold War) Type 77 amphibious armoured personnel carrier (Cold War) WZ-523 – six-wheeled APC. [16] Developed into ZFB91 internal security vehicle used by Peoples Liberation Army. [17] Type 85 aka YW-531H, improved T-63 APC (Cold War) Type 89 aka YW-534, improved Type 85 APC (Cold War)
The FV432 is the armoured personnel carrier variant in the British Army's FV430 series of armoured fighting vehicles. Since its introduction in the 1960s, it has been the most common variant, being used for transporting infantry on the battlefield. At its peak in the 1980s, almost 2,500 vehicles were in use.
These CVR(T)s were the only armoured vehicles used in action by the British Army during the conflict. At least one Scimitar was seriously damaged by an Argentinian landmine, but the crew were unscathed, and the vehicle was salvaged by a Chinook HC.1 helicopter [13] and soon brought back into service by the attached REME section.