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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 ...
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.
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.
Boxer is the new British Mechanised Infantry Vehicle (MIV), an eight-by-eight-wheeled, all-terrain, armoured transport vehicle. The vehicles Remote Weapon Stations will be equipped with a mix of .50 cal heavy machine guns, grenade machine guns and general purpose machine guns. [166] [167]
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.
Although fitted with a bipod, it could also be mounted on a tripod or be vehicle-mounted. The Bren gun was a licensed version of the Czechoslovak ZGB 33 light machine gun which, in turn, was a modified version of the ZB vz. 26, which British Army officials had tested during a firearms service competition in the 1930s.
The Machine Gun Corps (MGC) was a corps of the British Army, formed in October 1915 in response to the need for more effective use of machine guns on the Western Front in the First World War. The Heavy Branch of the MGC was the first to use tanks in combat and was subsequently turned into the Tank Corps, later called the Royal Tank Regiment.
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. A successful and reliable design, it remained standard issue in the British Army until 1994, [18] when it began to be replaced by the L85A1, a bullpup assault rifle.