Chieftan MBT

The Chieftan was Britain's Main Battle Tank in the 1960s and 1970s until it's replacement in the 1990s by Challenger. The Chieftan was the evolutionary development of the Centurian tank. Designed to be well armed and well armoured to face the Soviet tanks at the time, it was armed with a rifled 120mm L11AS gun. The Chieftan was introdcued in 1967 and has been supplied to Iran, Kuwait, Oman and Jordan although unlike the earlier Centurion was never taken on for development by other NATO coun

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