Tank Craft: Chieftain British Cold War Main Battle Tank Tank Stuart In a Segregated Military

In a Segregated Military

many modifications for desert operations were accomplished

Yet just five months later

As gripping as the story of Rorke's drift

which were attached to the front of the tank to allow it to move through the thick brush

Tank Craft: Chieftain British Cold War Main Battle Tank Tank Stuart In a Segregated MilitaryBy Robert Jackson The British Chieftain designed in the late 1950s as the replacement for the Centurion was perhaps the best main battle tank in service with NATO during the 1960s and 1970s. Its 120mm rifled main gun and advanced armour made it one of the most formidable tanks of its time, and Robert Jackson's book is an authoritative introduction to it. Although it was intended to fight Soviet armour on the plains of northern Germany, it was in the