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Discussed in detail from May 1939, the system was summarised in a War Office letter of 12 April 1940 [4] updated in 1941, 1942 and 1943. All vehicles carried Arm of Service (AoS) markings comprising a 9 in (23 cm) square with a white two or three digit number (both one and four digits were occasionally used). Where the background colour is pale ...
American armoured vehicles were purchased and sometimes re-fitted with British guns, and were used by British and British-supplied Allied forces throughout the war. Sherman IC and VC – Sherman I and Sherman V medium tank chassis adapted by the British with a redesigned turret to mount a British 17-pounder gun. The 17-pounder could knock out ...
Standards applicable to British tanks of World War II are as follows: I.T.60: Face-hardened 7 to 12 mm steel plate. I.T.70: Thin homogeneous hard 3 to 30 mm plate. I.T.80: Thick homogeneous-machineable 15 mm and greater plate. I.T.90: Cast armour of all thicknesses. I.T.100: Thin homogeneous-machineable 3 to 14 mm plate.
The bright spots of British tank design included the Valentine, Churchill (A22), Cromwell (A27M), and Comet I (A34), which together made up a little over half of total British tank production during WWII. The Valentine was a reliable, heavily armoured infantry-support tank used successfully in the desert and by the Red Army as a light tank.
See Light Tank Mk IV, A4E11 and A4E12 referred to the Vickers-Carden-Loyd Light Amphibious Tank: A5 Vickers Carden-Loyd 3-man light tanks. See Light Tank Mk V and Light Tank Mk VI: A6 A6 Medium Tank, "16 Tonners"*, led to production of the Medium Tank Mk III: A7 A7 Medium Tank, 3 development tanks built, did not enter service [4] A8
To commemorate the centenary of the development of the Tank, in 2017 Channel 4, the JCB company and Guy Martin with the help of the Norfolk Tank Museum constructed a running replica Mk IV female (named Deborah II) for the television documentary Guy Martin's WWI Tank. Deborah II is now on permanent display at the Norfolk Tank Museum [14] [15]
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The FV4201 Chieftain was the main battle tank (MBT) of the United Kingdom from the 1960s into 1990s. When introduced, it was among the most heavily armed MBTs of the era, mounting a 120 mm Royal Ordnance L11 gun, the equal of the much larger specialist heavy tanks then in service.