robin craig Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 what is it? R Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m109a3uk Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 Looks French but the turret is facing the wrong way:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
challenger Posted March 12, 2012 Author Share Posted March 12, 2012 Vickers Mk1 supplied to India and in this case Kuwait. A medium tank with a conventional layout. Armed with an L7 105mm main armament and two .30 Browning MG and one .50 Browning RMG The vehicle was a budget Centurion with many modern components. It had an L60 main engine taken from Chieftain as was the TN12 Gearbox. It also has a three cylinder diesel engine that drove a generating set when the main engine was switched off. Kuwait received 70 as did India however India manufactured around 2000 under licence and called them Vijayanta. At least one of the production vehicles stayed in the UK and all of the pre production/prototypes were kept by Vickers Defence Systems. Where these vehicles went is unknown. Perhaps one or more have survived in the UK. There are still many sat in the desert in Kuwait, doubtless hundreds in India. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robin craig Posted March 12, 2012 Share Posted March 12, 2012 hmm I should have been able to put a name to them, darn it. The running gear looked Centurionesque. R Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shane.c Posted March 13, 2012 Share Posted March 13, 2012 Why dont there give them to people who will restore and save a bit of history, rather then let them rust,:undecided: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
challenger Posted March 14, 2012 Author Share Posted March 14, 2012 Stuff lying around in the desert. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
challenger Posted March 15, 2012 Author Share Posted March 15, 2012 Scorpion 02 FD 90 at the D & M School Bovington. You can probably see it through the fence at the Tank Museum. Seems in good order and has been there for some time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ashley Posted March 15, 2012 Share Posted March 15, 2012 Hi, there was also a churchill on the area in the early seveties remember camping by on a escape and evasion ex with the cadets. Ashley Some more taken at Haltern near Munster. All pictures are fairly old but I'm told most of the wrecks are still there. These ones include Conqueror, Centurion, AMX 13, M47 and Centurion ARV. I was told before I went there that the tank that is upside down was in fact a German WW2 vehicle. I was very excited but alas no. [ATTACH=CONFIG]58679[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]58680[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]58681[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]58682[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]58683[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]58684[/ATTACH][ATTACH=CONFIG]58685[/ATTACH] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
challenger Posted March 20, 2012 Author Share Posted March 20, 2012 Just in case you missed my article in Military Machines International here are some more of the Tortoise at Kirkcudbright. I reckon it is probably P6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
challenger Posted March 24, 2012 Author Share Posted March 24, 2012 A sorry looking Chieftain out in the desert of Oman. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardtarget Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 Sherman Target at Biville France Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick W Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 That looks quite intact for a range wreck. Are the French bad shots? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enigma Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 That looks quite intact for a range wreck. Are the French bad shots? Maybe they fire with baguettes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rog8811 Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 Maybe they fire with baguettes? That did make me LOL:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tony B Posted March 28, 2012 Share Posted March 28, 2012 Is it French because the guns pointing backwards? :cheesy: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
recymech66 Posted April 2, 2012 Share Posted April 2, 2012 We have a sorry looking Saladin at work, will post some pics when I find out how to do it from my ipod. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
challenger Posted April 3, 2012 Author Share Posted April 3, 2012 Look forqward to that, although you may be getting people excited. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
recymech66 Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 Look forqward to that, although you may be getting people excited. Such a shame to see it in that state, pics sorted soon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RattlesnakeBob Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 Sherman Target at Biville France ooooohhh...now you've gone and done it...:cheesy: .....I've been slathering and dreaming over those Shermans at Biville for quite a while....even got them marked in on my Google map.........worked out road access to them .....how I'd recover them off the dunes...the whole lot....yep.. ..all I need now is a good few grand to go and bother the French Government with Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddy8men Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 bob you're a man after my own heart, i too have the armour on biville on my google earth along with many, many other range areas. i know i can't have them all but there's no harm in trying :cool2: rick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RattlesnakeBob Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 well mate should you ever go after them I'd be more than happy to put my 30 odd years of heavy plant operation (amongst many other useful skills all learnt at the school of demolition / dismantling / scrap cutting etc !) at your disposal.... ......I'd be happy to consider a month or so over there rescuing them as a crackin holiday mate ...certainly no payment needed ! (well.........apart from having a small share in the recovered assets ! hahah!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eddy8men Posted April 4, 2012 Share Posted April 4, 2012 might take you up on that offer bob and sooner than you think ! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
challenger Posted April 4, 2012 Author Share Posted April 4, 2012 Things on a dump in Oman. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrevorLarkum Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 Chieftain turret drill trainer (or gunnery simulator)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChasSomT. Posted April 5, 2012 Share Posted April 5, 2012 might take you up on that offer bob and sooner than you think ! Can I play, too? Sounds just up my street! Go on, gissa job, I can do that! 'Chas.' :cool2: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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