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General Staff Number Service name A1 A1E1 Vickers 'Independent", [1] one built but not taken into service A2 A2E1 and A2E2: Medium Tank Vickers Mk I and Medium Tank Vickers Mk I (CS version) [2] A3 3-man tank (Royal Ordnance Factory); Carrier MG Mk I [3] A4 Vickers Carden-Loyd light tanks.
Category: World War II tanks of the United Kingdom. 20 languages. ... A-13 (tank) A20 heavy tank; A22 tank; British Official Armour Specification; B. Black Prince (tank)
The first American-produced heavy tank was the 43.5-ton Mark VIII, a US-British development of the successful British heavy tank design. Armed with two 6-pounder cannon and five .30-caliber machine guns, it was operated by an 11-man crew, had a maximum speed of 6.5 miles per hour, and a range of 50 miles.
Medium tank M3 (7,533) (General Lee American tanks purchased by the British under lend-lease.) Medium tank M4 (58,000) ( General Sherman bought by British from U.S. under lend lease) Medium tank M2 (112, used for training only)
Often referred to by the post-war nickname "Firefly", but during WWII this nickname was also used for the 17pdr M10. Lee and Grant – M3 Lee medium tank; 3in SP M10 – M10 tank destroyer; 17pdr SP M10 – M10 tank destroyer equipped with a British 17-pounder gun; Stuart tank (nicknamed "Honey") – M3 Stuart light tank; Locust – M22 ...
The following is a list of British military equipment of World War II which includes artillery, vehicles and vessels. This also would largely apply to Commonwealth of Nations countries in World War II like Australia, India and South Africa as the majority of their equipment would have been British as they were at that time part of the British Empire.
Both tanks were produced in greater numbers, and Sherman gained the unofficial moniker "heavy cruiser". The tanks that received the names Cavalier, Centaur and Cromwell were all designs to meet the same requirement for a cruiser tank to replace the Crusader tank. Design work took place in 1941 and 1942, focussed primarily on developments in ...
The TOG 2, officially known as the Heavy Tank, TOG II, was a British super-heavy tank design produced during the early stages of World War II for a scenario where the battlefields of northern France devolved into a morass of mud, trenches, and craters as had happened during World War I. When this did not happen, the tank was deemed unnecessary ...