From Merlin:
A selection of pictures taken in England at Duxford and Bovington.
Anyone who wants
the full scoop on the Chieftain should buy Bob
Griffin's new book from Crowood Press.
=== Duxford annex of the Imperial War Museum. ===
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Mk9 (IFCS or
Improved Fire Control System) with Turret traversed to the 9 o'clock
position was at Duxford in the front vehicle
storage area.
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The AVRE Chieftain
with Pipe Fascines is an unarmed Royal
Engineers Assault vehicle which replaced the Centurion AVRE after the Gulf
War. All were converted from surplus gun
tanks as the Challenger replaced the Chieftain in the Armoured Regiments.
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The Berlin Brigade
camouflaged example is a Mk10 seen outside of the 8th Airforce Museum
hangar at Duxford in 1998.
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=== Bovington Tank Museum. ===
The Tank Museum's outdoor exhibit is also a
Mk10(IFCS + Stillbrew). The main difference
between the Mk9 and Mk10 is that the Mk9 was not fitted with the Stillbrew
package. In the late 1980's most of the BAOR
chieftains were uparmoured in this very visible fashion, those which ended
the Chieftain's service in Germany being
updated yet again to Mk11 standard, with TOGS fire control systems as per
Challenger 1. These tanks would have proved a
worthy adversary to any Soviet tank right up until their retirement. What a
pity they never invested as much in the
Chieftain's re-engining ( ie replace the Leyland engine with the AVDS or
even the Rolls Royce/ Perkins Condor) the way
they did with armour fire control systems and armament!
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The very strange looking Churchill Dynamometer (painted Yellow!),
was used to measure the tractive effort of a
towing vehicle (ie when testing ARVs). One was
made up from the Conqueror Gas Turbine testbed as well.
My thanks to Merlin.
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