The British Chieftain - designed in the late 1950s as the
replacement for the Centurion - was perhaps the best main battle
tank in service with Nato during the 1960s and 1970s. Its 120mm
rifled main gun and advanced armour made it one of the most
formidable tanks of its time, and Robert Jackson's book is an
authoritative introduction to it. Although it was intended to fight
Soviet armour on the plains of northern Germany, it was in the heat
and sand of the Middle East that the Chieftain fought its major
battles during the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s, and it proved to be
very effective during the Gulf War of 1991\. Variants of the
Chieftain were exported to Iran, Oman, India, Kenya and Nigeria,
and its chassis was adapted to fulfil a variety of tasks, including
armoured recovery and bridge-laying As well as tracing the history
of the Chieftain, Robert Jackson's work provides an excellent
source of reference for the modeller, providing details of
available kits and photographs of award-winning models, together
with artworks showing the colour schemes applied to these tanks.
Each section of the book is supported by a wealth of archive
photographs.
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