challenger

The turret inside is complete less the gun guard and striker. The breech block has been tack welded to the breech ring in the closed position, the rest, seats, boxes, sights etc.. all seem to be there. I was in it just before it was placed.

On ‎11‎/‎02‎/‎2017 at 8:25 PM, philm1 said:

 

Would be nice to see photo of Scorpion mentioned above. I wonder if the engine was any good when Spike removed it?

Here you go and it is still there

• I cannot see any images, either ones I have posted or anybody else's. Is it me or a general problem?

Just curious, what would replace the hard targets, or is the plan just to use soft targets? I guess that bits of armour degrading in the ground is now frowned upon.

Yes they will be firing at canvas and wooden targets. Most big calibre weapons have stopped shooting at Hards already.

All these are due for removal from the range. It will start with the ones in the "dead vehicle park" and eventually include all the rest. Hard targets like these just cause to much environmental damage.

00EB31 about the 9th production Chieftain. Now an AVLB and spared death row again. Very unlikely now that this vehicle will ever be shot at. Unusual vehicle that should probably be saved. It is the early configuration of the AVLB as well as being an original gun tank hull.

Some more, mainly Chieftain, there was a glut of them available over the last twenty years.

Another Centurion on the same range.

Centurion ARV - Lulworth. The front end has a large square plate of armour put against. The front of the vehicle is a bit bashed in.

More to follow

Chieftain ARV on the range at Lulworth. This one is used as a target mainly for the smaller calibre weapons, mostly 7.62 machines guns of various types.

Interesting stuff, thanks for putting it on.

A Chieftain sporting a crane that was used on the range at Kirkudbright driven by John Gillman. although I was taking the photo, due to it being a while ago, I cannot remember what we were moving.

The Mk4 Chieftain, only two ever made and they were built as a result of the requirements of the IDF; politics got in the way and the sale never happened. As far as is known one vehicle was scrapped and this one, 02 SP 97, was fitted with the crane. It was used at Kirk to move heavy lumps around etc. As I said this one was the only surviving Mk4 Chieftain; if anyone knows what became of it I and others would be very interested.

The following images are from when it was a gun tank and at Kirkcudbright in the seventies. One parked next to the Centurion crane which we also used on the range at that time.

The one with the crane attached to the Chieftain with the 21 cupola was low tech testing of the new fire control system that came to be known as IFCS.

Don't know but I wondered why it had the same side lights as Challenger 2. When I left it was still for sale. Most of my fellow travellers thought it would have come across the border from the British Army in Belize but obviously not a British Army vehicle. They also had several German Unimogs.

Well not today but last week in Guatemala.

Blade Vane Sight also on Centurion and other older vehicles. Actually works; used one on many occasions in my SDaladin days. It folds up so the Commander can see it through one of the forward periscopes.

Looks like a P and O injector used to fill recoil systems on tanks. Still in use on Challenger 2:-)

Saw this on Derelict Places. Looks like a trailer for a 27Kva generator. The last picture at the bottom of the page.

http://www.derelictplaces.co.uk/main/rural-sites/34446-chalet.html?#.WJmySTgjGqI

Got to go and see that!!

Tend to agree; very poor but it could have been great if they had paid attention to detail.

Many thanks for the photo; I am getting information regarding the refueling of Chieftain when Jerry Cans were in use and haven't been able, until now, to get a picture. As I remember they were a good design well thought out but crap when used. Too slow and too bulky; we just upeneded the cans to drain into the four fillers. It was much quicker.:cheesy: