Scalemodels.ru also has a few pics of an assembled Conqueror. LINK!
The turret sides would lend themselves well to a Chieftain-style Stillbrew armor update.
Now you have me thinking, perhaps instead of issuing Conquerors to the SHQs of
Scalemodels.ru also has a few pics of an assembled Conqueror. LINK!
The turret sides would lend themselves well to a Chieftain-style Stillbrew armor update.
Now you have me thinking. Perhaps instead of being a supplement to the Centurion within the armoured regiments (mainly those in the BAOR wasn't it?), they were instead concentrated in independent tank brigades and as such built in much greater numbers, with a number of major marks and rebuilds, greatly improving performance extending service life. The independent tank brigades, logically, would be RTR, which could perhaps return to their pre-war structure of a single large regiment with multiple battalions, while the remaining armoured regiments could have evolved into medium, cavalry type, units and perhaps replaced their Cents with a co-developed Leopard, leaving the Chieftain to be developed specifically as a Conqueror replacement.
Greater numbers in UK service means the type would be more likely to have been exported, i.e. Israel