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Mirage Hobby: Vickers-Armstrong Mk F/45 - Coming Soon!

Vickers-Armstrong designers tried to make sure their tanks offer good off road performance. That was why the ’6 ton’ tank project in the late 1920s allowed reaching speeds in excess of 40 km/h on road and approx. 30 km/h off road.

Although the tank project failed to succeed with the British Army, Vickers-Armstrong managed to raise interest of foreign countries.

The tank was sold to many countries in Europe and the world, also licence-manufactures or modified to develop new tank versions (including 7TP in Poland, T26 in the USSR, M11/39 in Italy). Lesser modifications of turrets and armament did not lead to changes in the basic designation but only to variant suffixes (for example AVU-Vickers-Armstrong-Ursus)…