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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 Vickers Mk 7 consisted of a third generation Vickers Valiant turret mounted on a Krauss-Maffei-supplied chassis that in the prototype is essentially that of the Leopard 2 MBT. The tank had a Marconi digital fire control system, an SFIM panoramic sight and a Philips 2nd Gen thermal imager. [6]
The light tank Mk VII (A17), also known as the Tetrarch, was a British light tank produced by Vickers-Armstrongs in the late 1930s and used during the Second World War.The Tetrarch was the latest in the line of light tanks built by the company for the British Army.
The British 9th Armoured Car and Light Tank Company, Royal Tank Corps, were equipped with Vickers-Carden-Loyd Mk.IV Light Tanks. They were sent to the North-West Frontier of India and took part in the 1936-1939 Waziristan campaign against the fiercely independent Pashtun tribesmen that inhabited that mountainous region.
BL 8 inch Howitzer Mk 6 - 8, a Vickers gun from World War I; the Mk VII was introduced in 1916; Mark VII tank, a British tank design from World War I; BL 14 inch / 45 mk VII naval gun, Royal Navy gun from the 1930s.303 round Mk VII (1910): standard British Empire rifle and machine-gun cartridge in World Wars I and II.
The second prototype was believed to have been built by Vickers at their facility. [18] The vehicle was fitted with the turret from Vickers Mk.5 (VFM5) light tank mounting a fully-stabilised L7 105 mm gun. The Vickers Mk.11 had a crew of four and could carry 7 dismounts and there were firing ports for troops to fire their individual weapons.
However, the suspension actually dates back to ca. 1930 when Vickers either produced the A4E8 prototype, which was designated Light Tank Mk Ia and became a forerunner of the Mk. II, or converted several prototype tanks to the new suspension. [5] The Vickers Light Dragon Mk. I artillery tractor was another vehicle from that time which used the ...
[7] A US Mk 7 and Mk 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 version was also manufactured and adopted in US service from October 1918 as the M1918. [9] [7] Quoting from the US Army manual of 1920 on artillery in US service: [10] "The 8-inch howitzer materiel is called the "Vickers" model of 1917, of which there are in use two types, the Mark VI and Mark VII.