Ref: AF35122
Created: 02/21/2007
CENTURION MK 5/2-6 105mm NATO
Description : After the end of the Korean war in 1953, the NATO member countries started to standardize weapons and ammunitions to achieve maximum effectiveness in logistics support. Under this protocol the British Centurion tank was adpoted by several countries.
Description : The Tank, Infantry, MkIII (A22) was a heavy British infantry tank used in the Second World War, best known for its heavy armour and its use as the basis of many specialist vehicles. This series of tanks was named after Winston Churchill, who was not only the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom at the time but who during the First World War had been involved with the development of the tank as a weapon.
Description : The Tank, Infantry, MkIII (A22) was a heavy British infantry tank used in the Second World War, best known for its heavy armour and its use as the basis of many specialist vehicles. This series of tanks was named after Winston Churchill, who was not only the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom at the time but who during the First World War had been involved with the development of the tank as a weapon.
Description : For this special weapon, the Churchill tank was chosen as the platform due to its thick armour . 6. pounder gun replaced by a 290mm mortars which became the concrete bunker buster. Such platform is known as Churchill AVRE. Up to Operation Overlord, there were some 180 AVRE ’s converted from Churchill III’s & IV’s. All those AVRE’s were under command of Major General Hobart’s specialized 79th armoured division. They were used in the June 1944 Normandy invasion.