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Subject: British tank names
AussieEngineer    5/8/2005 9:18:10 AM
Most british tanks since the beginning of WW2 have names starting with C, crusader, cromwell, churchill, centurion, cheiftan and now challenger. Is this related to the idea of cruiser tanks, as cruiser begins with C? Also why the shift in names from leaders to "challenger"?
 
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AlbanyRifles    RE:Yimmy   5/17/2005 1:29:22 PM
Right, but some tanks had 1 or 2 BESA and a Bren.....so aren't you then mixing .303 and 7.92? And wasn't there a .455 Webley round? For the US, for the most part, you had .30-06 belt & clip, .300 Winchester and .45 caliber in infantry units with .30-06, .45 and .50 caliber to tank units...so how does it differ? And how did we get into this dicussion of small arms ammo on an Armor discussion board?
 
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jamesbaf       2/11/2007 12:53:02 PM
You forgot to mention the Comet
 
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the British Lion       2/11/2007 1:58:26 PM

You forgot to mention the Comet


Erm... the Comet was mentioned several times...
 
B.L.
 
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Seawitch       1/26/2010 12:18:04 PM
I answered this question in the Daily Mail readers questions page some years ago, I asked my father who had served 26 years in the 2nd Royal Tank regiment.
The 'C' prefix does mean Cruiser class, as apposed to Battle class. British Heavy tank designs were enormous contraptions that never got of the drawing board.
The short lived Conquerer, Britain's heaviest tank, was well short of being one.
The only Conquerer I've seen was a target on  Sennelager hill, they came in handy for that.
 
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Heorot    Conquerer   2/6/2010 12:06:06 PM
The Imperial War Museum has (had) a runner. It was used on public days to drive over (flatten) a parked car.
 
Don't know if they still do that though. It was included in the 2004 Heavy Metal show where all their tanks were paraded.

ht*p://homepage.ntlworld.com/mclaydon/land-3.htm
 
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Heorot       2/6/2010 12:25:09 PM

Right, but some tanks had 1 or 2 BESA and a Bren.....so aren't you then mixing .303 and 7.92? And wasn't there a .455 Webley round?

For the US, for the most part, you had .30-06 belt & clip, .300 Winchester and .45 caliber in infantry units with .30-06, .45 and .50 caliber to tank units...so how does it differ?


And how did we get into this dicussion of small arms ammo on an Armor discussion board?
Just to clarify, the British bought the Czech model ZB26 and with great difficulty converted it from a rimless 7.92 calibre to the British rimmed .303. This became the Bren.
 
When a co-axial gun was required for tanks, they went back to the Czech company that they had bought the licence for the ZB26 from, and selected their model ZB53 gun. This was also chambered for the rimless 7.92 round. Because of time constraints and the difficulty in making the conversion it was adopted in the rimless 7.92 form. Ammunition expenditure was expected to be low enough that the logistical difficulties of having two different rounds was not seen to be too big a problem.
 
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