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Lewis Gun – in service with some infantry at outbreak of war in small numbers, issued to British Home Guard for the rest of the war. Vickers "K" machine gun also known as VGO – fast-firing aircraft machine gun, used in specialist roles on Long Range Desert Group and Special Air Service vehicles in North Africa, as well as a short-lived ...
Green beret [4] - worn by British Commandos. Maroon beret [5] - from 1942 by airborne units. Tan beret [6] - Special Air Service from 1942 till 1944. Black beret [7] - by armoured units, including the Royal Tank Corps from 1924. Service Dress [8] - the field uniform at the start of the war until replaced by battledress.
Tanks. 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.
This is a list of equipment of the British Army currently in use. It includes current equipment such as small arms, combat vehicles, explosives, missile systems, engineering vehicles, logistical vehicles, vision systems, communication systems, aircraft, watercraft, artillery, air defence, transport vehicles, as well as future equipment and ...
Centurion tankmain British tank early Cold War. Chieftain tankmain British tank in the middle of the Cold War. Challenger 1tank main British tank late in Cold War. Challenger 2tank main British tank of early 21st century and current main British tank as of 2022. Set to be replaced by Challenger 3roughly around 2030.
The Vickers machine gun or Vickers gun is a water-cooled.303 British (7.7 mm) machine gun produced by Vickers Limited, originally for the British Army. The gun was operated by a three-man crew but typically required more men to move and operate it: one fired, one fed the ammunition, the others helped to carry the weapon, its ammunition, and ...
200 metres (220 yd) Suppressed: 50–100 metres (55–109 yd) Feed system. 34-round box magazine or 32- or 50-round box magazine from the Sten and Lanchester. Sights. Iron sights. The Sterling submachine gun is a British submachine gun (SMG). It was tested by the British Army in 1944–1945, but did not start to replace the Sten until 1953.
Sights. Blade and tangent leaf. The Lewis gun (or Lewis automatic machine gun or Lewis automatic rifle) is a First World War–era light machine gun. Designed privately in the United States though not adopted there, the design was finalised and mass-produced in the United Kingdom, [4] and widely used by troops of the British Empire during the war.