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Moran joined the Irish Army Reserve in September 1997 and the US Army National Guard in November 2000. [3] He was deployed to Iraq in 2004 and 2005 as a tank platoon leader (during which his unit received a Valorous Unit Award), and Afghanistan in 2009 and 2010 (during which his unit received a Meritorious Unit Commendation).
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.
The initial engine choice in 1954 for what was known at the time as "Medium Gun Tank No.2", later designated the "FV4201" and given the service name 'Chieftain', was a Rolls-Royce diesel V8, however during the Chieftain's design phase NATO introduced a policy in 1957 requiring all armoured fighting vehicles to have a multi-fuel capability.
Primal Power was written by Logan Bonner, Rob Heinsoo, Mike Mearls, and Robert J. Schwalb, and published in 2009.The book features art by Steve Argyle, Ralph Beisner, Eric Belisle, Kerem Beyit, Mitch Cotie, Brian "Chippy" Dugan, Jesper Ejsing, Jason Engle, Tomas Giorello, Howard Lyon, Warren Mahy, Raven Mimura, James Nelson, William O'Connor, Héctor Ortiz, Wayne Reynolds, Chris Seaman, Eva ...
The design would use the new engine and transmission of the Chieftain tank then being developed. The development coincided with an agreement with India in 1961 to produce a tank design and help set up a factory there to produce it. The Vickers MBT Mk 1 was designed to be a simple, low-cost, but effective tank. [2]
Chieftain Mark 11C at The Tank Museum, Bovington.Stillbrew armour is visible on the turret front. Stillbrew armour was a passive (i.e., non-explosive, non-reactive) appliqué armour designed to provide added protection against HEAT ammunition and hollow and shaped charge weapons such as RPG-7 rockets and AT-3 Sagger anti-tank guided missiles, by deflecting the explosive jet, and increased ...
Following the re-rise of the Tamil kingdom in the medieval period and demise of the Rajarata kingdom period after the twelfth century AD, many petty chiefs took power in the buffer lands between the northern-based Jaffna Vassal State and other kingdoms based on the southwest of the island – namely Kotte Kingdom and the Kandyan Kingdom. These ...
Chieftain's Salute is a concerto in one movement for Great Highland Bagpipe and orchestra by Graham Waterhouse. The work is one of few to use the bagpipe with a classical orchestra. A version for bagpipe and string orchestra, Op. 34a, was composed in 2001. It is based on an earlier work for bagpipe and string quartet.