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	Nase noviny - The Challenger Tank
		When combat-ready, the Challenger's weight was 33 tons, producing a ground pressure of.93kg per square centimetre; due to the lengthening of the chassis and the longer gun barrel, the Challenger tanks were 8.15m long.
		The tanks had a crew of 5 and an armament of a 17-pdr.
		A number of these tanks were issued to the Czechoslovak Independent Armoured Brigade Group, where they had an altogether different role due to the stationary task of the Dunkirk siege, serving as self-propelled guns.
	www.geocities.com /nasenoviny/ChallengerEN.html (517 words)

	The cruiser tanks of Great Britain
		Cruiser Tank Mark 1, A9, A9E1, C.S. Designed by Vickers in 1936 and built for the purpose of replacing the aging Medium Mark 1 and 2.
		Externally, the tank is nearly identical to the Centaur and the (later) Cromwell.
		The last of the cruisers and the first of a wise combination of the Infantry and Cruiser tanks.
	mailer.fsu.edu /~akirk/tanks/GreatBritain/BritishCruiserTanks.html (1320 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A tank is characterized by heavy weapons and armour, as well as by a high degree of mobility that allows it to cross rough terrain at relatively high speeds.
		Tanks were also used to great effect in the Battle of Amiens, when Allied forces were able to break through entrenched German position due to armoured support.
		A modern tank is usually equipped with radio equipment allowing its crew to communicate on a company or battalion radio network, and possibly to monitor a higher-level network, to co-ordinate with other arms of service.
	www.gamecheatz.net /games.php?title=Tank (9142 words)

	THE OTHER CHALLENGER
		Challenger was based on the new A27M Cromwell cruiser tank, but with reduced armour, an extra road wheel and a huge new turret for the 17 Pdr.
		Challengers genesis was as the second from last of a type of tank peculiar to the British called a Cruiser.
		The Cruiser was born from the WW1 theories of Liddle Hart and Fuller, where by light tanks scouted, infantry tanks supported infantry and cruiser’s fought other tanks in massed break through’s reminiscent of Napoleonic cavalry charges crossed with a naval engagement.
	freespace.virgin.net /shermanic.firefly/chal1.htm (2035 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Fact file: Challenger 2
		The Challenger 2 is the UK's main battle tank, and as such its key function is to destroy enemy tanks.
		Improvements to air filters have had to be undertaken to enable the tank to function properly in hot and sandy environments.
		The tank has a four man crew and an ability to target and destroy as many as eight targets a minute.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/uk_news/2519005.stm (350 words)

	Cruiser Mk VIII Challenger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Tank, Cruiser, Challenger (A30) was an attempt to mount the 17 Pounder gun on the Cromwell tank chassis to give a tank with more anti-tank firepower to add to the Cruiser tank units.
		The Challenger, despite its high centre of gravity was liked by its crews as it was somewhat faster and more agile than the equivalently armed Sherman Firefly.
		With priority production at Vauxhall Motors for the Comet tank, those built in 1945 were not ready for use until after the end of the war in Europe.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cruiser_Mk_VIII_Challenger (351 words)

	BBC NEWS \| UK \| Life inside a Challenger 2
		At £5.6m a piece, the UK's main battle tank, the Challenger 2, is an expensive piece of kit but, as BBC News Online discovered, it is not a great environment to work in, especially in the stifling heat of the Iraqi desert.
		A British soldier takes a break under his Challenger II Mr Tusa said the Challenger 2 had an environmental control system which was an improvement on Challenger 1 but he said it was unable to cope with the sweltering heat of the desert.
		The tank is also "extremely cramped" with four fully grown men sharing a space barely 15 feet by 10 feet and only about six feet high.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/2903273.stm (630 words)

	Cruiser tanks; a style not a model
		While German strategists were deciding that war was going to go to the mobile and tanks would provide the required mobility, the British figured that future war was going to resemble World War I with entrenched lines.
		Thus they channelled their tank development in two directions: "infantry" tanks, having a top speed at about a infantryman's running speed, were to support infantry across no-man's land while "cruiser" tanks, like their naval brethren, were to engage and destroy other tanks (cruiser and infantry).
		British "cruiser" tanks tended to be far faster than their "infantry" counterparts and were usually heavy armoured whenever possible, befitting the British design philosophy.
	www.diggerhistory.info /pages-armour/allied/cruiser.htm (180 words)

	Nase noviny - The title page
		Moored in the Thames, this large cruiser brings you back into the freezing nights of north Atlantic patrols and the downfall of the Scharnhorst.
		A feared tank killer of the Royal Artillery as well as a tank weapon of considerable virtues, this gun could outperform any of its German or Soviet counterparts in anything but weight.
		Read about what kind of tank it was and what chances it had against the German panzers.
	www.geocities.com /nasenoviny/indexEN.html (1092 words)

	BBC - WW2 People's War - The Burst of Disgust!
		Being in a tank that could have a top speed of 50 miles an hour in a restricted area what he was indicating would mean we’d spend a lot of time sitting about.
		In one corner was a disabled German mark — 4 tank with one of the crew hanging down outside of the turret with his feet hooked inside.
		Being a tank man myself and knowing how proud we felt, I had to visualize this German tank man as a once a proud man and I knew by now his pockets would have contained items like my own.
	www.bbc.co.uk /ww2peopleswar/stories/80/a4401280.shtml (1058 words)

	Challenger
		To increase the antitank capability of their Cruiser Tank units, the British tried to adapt the powerful 17-pounder gun on the chassis of a Centaur/Cromwell.
		The amount of embarked ammunition was insufficient and the hull MG had to be sacrificed to increase internal stowage capacity.
		The Sherman Firefly which appeared in the meantime, took over the mission of the Challenger during the campaign in Europe and only a limited number of Challengers saw action.
	users.swing.be /tanks/engins2/173.html (173 words)

	Challenger tank - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		There have been three tanks named Challenger in British military service.
		Cruiser Tank Challenger in service during World War II.
		Challenger 1 in service from the late 1980s to early 21st century
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Challenger_tank (95 words)

	The Tank Museum - Bovington - Projects
		The A30 Challenger was an enlarged version of the famous Cromwell cruiser tank.
		Even so some 200 Challengers were built and served with various regiments throughout the NW Europe campaign.
		After the war no effort was made to preserve one and the only survivor was discovered, rusting away on a tank range, about twenty years ago.
	www.tankmuseum.co.uk /newspack1201.html (205 words)

	henkofholland mastermodelling military vehicles scale 1/72-1/76
		Next in the Cruiser line was Centaur.It had been intended to fit the tank with a new engine, The Rolls-Royce Meteor.
		Production of the Challenger was much slower than the Sherman Firefly, by September 1944, there were only enough to provide three armoured regiments with twelve each.
		This was a British attempt to produce a tank destroyer, armed with a 17-pounder gun, with an open-topped turret in order to reduce weight.
	henk.fox3000.com /cromwell.htm (738 words)

	Cruiser tank (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Other nations would have qualified those machines as "medium tanks", but they would have failed to capture the difference between a slow tank, intended to progress at the pace of walking men to support them, from the fast tank specialized in the pursuit and exploitation.
		The history of the cruiser tanks is no success story.
		That first success was followed by two others in a row: the Comet and the Centurion, which had brilliant careers after the war.
	users.swing.be /tanks/engins2/426.html (177 words)

	Einstein Factor: Tanks of World War II
		Tanks of World War II Submitting designs for the German Tiger II tank were Henschel and which current-day sports car manufacturer?
		The Cruiser Tank Challenger was an attempt to mount a how-many-pound gun on the Cromwell tank chassis?
		The first British Matilda tanks were powered by a Ford V8 engine.
	www.abc.net.au /einsteinfactor/txt/s1619868.htm (387 words)

	AFV News QUESTION OF THE MONTH
		Tas tank and tank destroyer after a Hungarian chieftain of the 9th century.
		Challenger was one of the British tank industry's least successful progeny.
		Challenger during the early stages of the post-Normandy campaign, and thus the
	www.afvnews.ca /muzzle.html (3546 words)

	Britain's Cruiser Mk VIII Challenger A30 Tanks (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		A troop consisted of three Cromwells and one Challenger.
		British and American Tanks of World War Two, The Complete Illustrated History of British, American, and Commonwealth Tanks 1933-1945, Peter Chamberlain and Chris Ellis, 1969
		Tanks of the World, 1915-1945, Peter Chamberlain, Chris Ellis, 1972
	www.wwiivehicles.com /unitedkingdom/cruiser/mk_viii_a30_challenger.html (204 words)

	The FReeper Foxhole's TreadHead Tuesday - the British Cruiser Tanks - Dec. 21st, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		It was then time for the British to have their last horror story with tanks before turning out their first really brilliant cruiser tanks of the war.
		It represented the quarter of all cruiser tanks at the onset of the war.
		Thus it became a cruiser tank, although its speed was insufficient.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-vetscor/1305622/posts (8641 words)

	Mike's Diecast Tanks and Armor - News
		The tanks are unweathered, although they are painted in fairly realistic color schemes.
		Six tanks are expected for the holidays, among them a German Tiger I, Panther and Jagdpanther, as well as a US M4 Sherman, M5 Stuart and M36 Jackson.
		These composite Die Cast Tanks are the first all tooling by 21st century in several years and come with two figures each.
	www.mikes-tanks.com /News.htm (6254 words)

	Fernando Enterprises - miniature painting service - Sri Lanka
		Here is a list of tanks we have pictures.
		Please check our list and if your tank is listed on this list you do not have to send us any painting guides for painting.
		We are unable to quote a painting charge for every model given in this list, please send your unpainted tank we will paint it and send you a quote.
	www.miniaturelovers.com /tanks.htm (424 words)

	Irish Armor
		The only obvious difference between it and the Mark C was the fitting of the turret cupola for the commander.
		This tank remained in service until 1940, when it was damaged beyond economic repair in anti-tank defense trials; its turret was dismounted to form part of a pillbox; the hull being scrapped.
		Now only the gun survives as a treasured relic.
	mailer.fsu.edu /~akirk/tanks/ireland/ireland.html (347 words)

	Crusader Tank
		Great value book on British Crusader Cruiser Tank, published by Osprey books in Crusader Cruiser Tank 1939-1945 by David Fletcher and Peter Sarson.
		This book is crammed with photographs of the Crusader tank.
		Dedicated to the artwork of David Pentland, showing the complete series of tanks and aviation art.
	www.war-art.com /crusader_tank.htm (568 words)

	Desert Storm Weapons Set
		It has also been called the "Allied and Iraqi Weapon Set," for some reason.
		Thanks much to Michael Beam for reporting a variation for Card 29, where an error version is missing the British flag in the upper right-hand corner, the name of the tank "Challenger", and the red Desert Storm logo.
		Both versions are found in the original distribution.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/allender/desweap.htm (111 words)

	Bellona Military Vehicle Prints
		A.J. North, "Tank, Cruiser, A27M, CROMWELL, Mk IV"
		D.P. Dyer, "Medium Tank M3 'General Lee' Mk.
		Gooch, "Light Tank Mark I" Doyle, "Panzerkampfwagen 'Panther' Ausf G" Kaye, "Armoured Car, AEC Mark I" Gooch, "Infantry Tank Mark I" Bellona Military Vehicle Prints Series Seventeen, UK: Bellona, 1968.
	www.onwar.com /tanks/bellona.htm (869 words)

	Bronekollektsia BKL-200103 Bronekollektsia N3 2001: Cruiser and Main Battle Tanks of Foreign Armed Forces on ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Bronekollektsia BKL-200103 Bronekollektsia N3 2001: Cruiser and Main Battle Tanks of Foreign Armed Forces on www.Aviapress.com.
		BKL-200103 Bronekollektsia N3 2001: Cruiser and Main Battle Tanks of Foreign Armed Forces
		Challenger 2 at the Scottish Royal Guards Dragoons Regiment Exercise.
	www.aviapress.com /viewonekit.htm?BKL-200103 (118 words)

	Amazon.ca: Cromwell Cruiser Tank 1942-50: Books: David Fletcher,Peter Sarson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Amazon.ca: Cromwell Cruiser Tank 1942-50: Books: David Fletcher,Peter Sarson
		Buy this book with Challenger 2 Main Battle Tank 1987-2006 by Simon Dunstan today!
		Challenger 2 Main Battle Tank 1987-2006 by Simon Dunstan
	www.amazon.ca /Cromwell-Cruiser-1942-50-David-Fletcher/dp/1841768146 (243 words)

	Altaya - Mikes Diecast Tanks and Armour
		In 2005, Altaya started series of 1/72 military vehicles (mostly tanks).
		Each vehicle comes with a small 8 1/2"x11" booklet on tanks.
		The beginning and end are a bit generic.
	www.mikes-tanks.com /Altaya.htm (221 words)

	Achtung Panzer! - Polish Armor 1939
		British Heavy Infantry Tank Mark IV Churchill (A22)
		British Cruiser Tank Mk.V (A13 - Mark III) Covenanter
		British Cruiser Tank Mk.VIII (A27) Centaur / Cromwell
	www.achtungpanzer.com /pol/polot_z.htm (335 words)

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