Centurion Tank

The Centurion was a British main battle tank used from 1945 up to the early 1990s.

The tank weighed 51 long tonnes and measured 7.6 metres long, 3.4 metres wide and 3.01 metres high. It carried a crew of four people – a commander, gunner, loader and driver. Its armour was 6 inches thick. The primary armaments were a 105 millimetre L7 rifled gun, and a 17 and 20 pounder gun. A .30 calibre Browning machine gun was the secondary armament. The Rolls-Royce Meteor engine was capable of 650 horsepower. It had a Horstmann suspension. The operational range was 280 miles and speed was a maximum 21 miles per hour. A personalised usb stick may be a great gift for any fan of tanks or war machines in general.

The tank was used as the foundation for a variety of specialist equipment. It included engineering variants with a 165 millimetre demolition gun used by the Armoured Vehicle Royal Engineers (AVRE). The Centurion was one of the best and longest serving designs. It served as a battle tank for the British and Australian armies from the Korean up to the Vietnam wars. It also served as AVREs in Operation Desert Storm for two months in 1991. Over four thousand Centurion tanks were produced between 1946 and 1962.

The Centurion had UK and non-UK variants. The units were listed as being used in the various wars listed below.

Combat listing of the various Centurion units:

· Korean War

· Suez Crisis

· War of 1965

· Six Day War

· Liberation of Bangladesh/War of 1971

· Vietnam War

· Gulf War/ Operation Desert Storm