View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LRdmSgUDaQ
Looks like the requirement was for a heavily protected defence orientated tank, employing ambush tactics (similar in a number of respects to the S-Tank), for use by the British Army On the Rhine (BAOR). IIRC, default NATO strategy in the event...
1961
1963
cold war
general staff operational requirement
great britain
gsor 1008
liquid armour
ministryofdefence
swingfire missile
the armoured archives
ORIGINAL CAPTION: The CarbSAR concept could fly as a demonstration in 2021
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47787598
From earlier this year:
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47030052
https://www.sstl.co.uk/
https://oxford.space/
On page 241 of "The Decline of British Seapower" by Desmond Wettern, the
then Minister of Aviation (Julian Amery) told a Business Dinner on 9 September 1964
that the Government were considering building an ocean-going "hovership" for the
RN. His Ministry and the MOD would make preliminary...
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