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The CAMANF is a Brazilian amphibious vehicle developed in 1975 as a replacement to the old American DUKWs used by Brazilian Marines for transportation from offshore boats to the beach. The CAMANF is manned by a crew of three and armed with a 12.7 mm anti-aircraft machine-gun. A 190hp Detroit-Diesel Model 40-54N engine provides a top speed of 72 kmh and a range of 430 km. The CAMANF is based on a 6x6 F-7000 Ford chassis fitted with a watertight body, and is very similar to the old DUKW.
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The Centurion AVRE was developed in the 1960 to replace the Churchill Tank based AVRE as the main combat engineer vehicle of the British army. The
Centurion AVRE was based on the Centurion Tank, armed with a 165 mm demolition gun, 7.62 mm coaxial machine-gun and a 7.62 mm anti-aircraft machine-gun. A dozer blade is fitted at the front for the removal of obstacles. The Centurion AVRE is manned by a crew of five protected by armour 17 mm to 118 mm thick and has a top speed of 35 kmh and a range of 177 km.
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The Centurion Tank was a British tank developed in 1943 which continued in production until 1962. It was originally armed with a 17-pounder main gun, then with a 20-pounder gun and finally with the 105 mm L7A2 gun. It carried a crew of 4, and was protected by armour plate 152 mm thick on the turret front, 76 to 118 mm thick on the hull front depending upon the model and 38 mm to 51 mm thick on the sides and rear. The Centurion Tank had a top speed of 22 mph and a range of 190 km. In the 1960's the Centurion Tank was replaced by the Chieftan Tank as Britain's Main Battle Tank (MBT).
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The CET (Combat Engineer Tractor) was a British armoured amphibious earthmover produced from 1978 to 1981 for the British Army. The CET was manned by a crew of two and armed with a 7.62 mm machine-gun. It had a top speed of 56 kmh and a range of 322 km.
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The Challenger 1 is a British main battle tank developed from the Centurion and Chieftain lines, modified to produce the Shir/Iran 2 originally planned for service with the Iranian forces. After the Iranian Revolution the Shir Iran 2 project was taken over by the British Army and the end result was Challenger later redesignated as Challenger 1. The main differences between
Challenger 1 and its predecessor Chieftain are the Challenger engine, a Rolls-Royce CV12 which produces 1200bhp at 2300 rounds-per-minute, far more powerful than the Chieftain engine and provides a top speed of 35 mph, and the Chobham Armour, which gives very high protection levels against anti armour weapons. Challenger is armed with a 120 mm L11A5 gun; two 7.62 mm Machine-guns; two 5 barrel smoke dischargers. Challenger is manned by a crew of four.
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The Challenger 2 is a British main battle tank based upon the Challenger 1 but with improvements including a new turret and up rated armour.
Challenger 2 is armed with a 120 mm L30 CHARM gun; one coaxial 7.62 mm machine-gun; and one 7.62 mm turret mounted anti-aircraft machine-gun. It has a top speed of 35 mph.
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The Char B1 was a French tank used during the Second World War. It was made by Renault along similar lines to the American M3 Lee. It had a fully traversing turret and was armed with a 47 mm main gun and a heavy 75 mm gun mounted in the right-hand side of the hull front. It had armour up to 60 mm thick and a top speed of 18 mph provided by a 307 bhp engine and a range of 150 km.
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The Char D2 was a French tank manufactured by Renault and used by the French army during the Second World War. It was similar to the Char B1, but without a 75 mm hull mounted gun. It was crewed by three men and weighed 20 tonnes. It had armour up to 40 mm thick and a top speed of 14 mph and a range of 130 km.
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The Chieftain was a British main battle tank produced in the late 1950s as a replacement for the Centurion. The Chieftain was manned by a crew of four, and armed with one 120 mm rifled gun; one 7.62 mm L37A2 coaxial machine-gun and six smoke dischargers. Powered by a Leyland six-cylinder multi-fuel engine the Chieftain had a top speed of 48 kmh and a range of 500 km. The Chieftain was replaced in the British army by the Challenger in the late 1980s.
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The Churchill Tank was a British heavy tank of the Second World War. It had armour up to a thickness of 101 mm of the front of the hull and 89 mm around the turret. Early models were armed with a 2-pounder gun in the turret and a 3-inch howitzer in the front plate, later models the 6-pounder turret gun without the 3-inch howitzer and the last model, the Churchill VII was armed with a 75 mm gun in the turret. Early models were produced in a hurry in response to the imminent threat of invasion and as such proved mechanically unreliable, a feature which resulted in their poor performance with the Canadian troops at Dieppe. The main variant, the Churchill IV, had a top speed of 16 mph and a range of 145 km. The
Churchill Tank was produced in a number of variations, including an assault model, the AVRE which was armed with a short-range demolition mortar; a bridge-layer; a 3-inch gun carrier; recovery vehicle and the Churchill Crocodile with a flamethrower.
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The Comet was a British cruiser tank, equipped with the Christie large wheel suspension and armed with a 77 mm gun. It was first used in March 1945 after the British had crossed the Rhine and remained in service for many years after the war. Its greatest asset was its reliability.
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The Commando Ranger (known to the USAF as the Peacekeeper) is an American armoured vehicle built for the USAF as a security vehicle to patrol air bases. The Commando Ranger carries a crew of two plus six passengers protected by 7 mm thick armour in an air-conditioned truck based on a standard Chrysler truck chassis. The Commando Ranger is armed with one or two 7.62 mm machine-guns, and has firing ports for the passengers. A Dodge 360 CID V-8 petrol engine provides a top speed of 112 kmh and a range of 556 km.
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The FV214 Conqueror was a British heavy tank produced from 1955 to 1958 and designed for fighting the Warsaw Pact forces on the plains of Europe. After the problems of the Second World War when British tanks had been outgunned, the Conqueror was armed with a 120 mm rifled gun and a 7.62 mm coaxial machine-gun. The cumbersome and difficult to maintain Conqueror proved of little advantage over the Centurion Tank, except for its gun, and when Centurion tanks were up gunned the Conqueror was phased out of service. The Conqueror was manned by a crew of four, protected by armour ranging from 17 to 178 mm thick and powered by a 12-cylinder petrol engine providing a top speed of 34 kmh and a range of 155 km.
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The Cromwell Tank (A27M Cruiser VIII) was a British tank of the Second World War. It was protected by 63 mm thick armour on the front of the hull, 76 mm thick armour on the front of the turret and 32 mm thick armour on the sides of the turret. It carried a crew of five and had a top speed of 32 mph and a range of 278 km. It was armed with a British 17-pounder (76 mm) main gun.
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The Cruiser III was a British tank of the Second World War, phased out in 1941. It had a top speed of 30 mph and was armed with a 2-pounder main gun and a single machine-gun.
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The Crusader (Cruiser VI) was a British, fast cruiser tank used in the Second World War, first produced in 1938 and based upon the Christie suspension system. The Crusader first saw action in 1941 at Operation Battleaxe in North Africa. It carried a crew of five, and had a top speed of 28 mph. It was initially armed with a two pounder gun and a coaxial 7.62 mm machine-gun, these were upgraded to the six pounder gun later in the war. It was protected by sloping armour up to 50 mm thick. After 1941 the Crusader was produced in specialist models, rather than being employed as a battle tank, and these included mine-clearance vehicles, artillery observation platforms, anti-aircraft defence - fitted with 40 mm Bofors guns - armoured recovery tanks, anti-tank gun tractors and armoured bulldozers.
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