Vickers Mk3 - Tank Design & Development

A look at the Vickers Mk 3 MBT. A follow on from the Mk 1 and Mk 2, the Mk3 saw sales success in Kenya and Nigeria. An all-round capable and affordable tank, the Mk3 was the last of the Vickers Tanks to see sales in numbers abroad.

Special Thanks to Peter Breakspear - for photos and trials feedback.
Thanks to my lovely discord team for rummaging up a few photos too.

Sources: Bovington Archives.
Kew Archives
Vickers Archives
Former operators and users.

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[trevorashworth]

Worked at Vickers, Elswick and later the new factory ay at Scotswood from 1974 until 2000. Made parts in the machine shop for all the different vehicles including revcovery and bridgelayers.With the fall of the Shah in Iran work on a big order of an upgraded vehicle was stopped overnight.Also made spares for Abbot SPG.andwe also built the turrets for the Warrior APC.T10-55 behind the tanks you can see a Valker wheeled personel carrier.We built two prototypes (developed from the Begian BDX.One was sold to Kuwait but its was lost during the first Gulf war.I also worked on Challenger2 and Crarrv.

[DamoBloggs]

As usual, unprecedented level of detail, history and wonderful visuals - great work, and much appreciated! 👍

[bjh]

Well written and well read. I thoroughly enjoyed this. Some of the later ones looked like bloody good tanks.

Subscribed and thumbs-upped. Keep it up.

[KUNALBISWAS-NEWS-TECH-SHORT]

India was offered MK3 variant but went for T-72 due to soviat influence & diplomacy, Vijayanta was loved by Armored corp & state run DRDO even upgraded few last once with Soviat V-46-6 engine & addon kanchan Armour plates, Vijayanta even had a coffee machine..

[CthulhuInc]

gee, ed, sorry to hear you are unwell - best wishes for a speedy recovery :)

[lonelyone]

Even as a child passing elswick and seeing it basically deserted filled me with a great sorrow. Seeing this gigantically long factory be basically empty really set in from an early age what austere Britain was actually like. Even today I look at it and feel a tear in my eye from the rich history of the factory and the empty husk it is today.

[Simon_Nonymous]

We moved to Newcastle just as Vickers moved to Scotswood - the ship yards were busy patching up the damage done by the Falklands war. The factory is still there but is in other hands now.

This is one of those tanks that was a bit under the radar for me.
At a point where I thought I already new pretty much all major tank types I cam across it and was quite surprised.

Certainly intersting to see that the vickers 6 t wasn't the only export success of vickers.

Hopefully some museum will preserve one.

[captaindreadnought]

the MK3i is an absolutely gorgeous tank

[robbo]

Great Video, I noticed the picture of the turret interior is upside down. So many top class videos from you.

[silverwolf]

Another brilliant video, I knew about the Vickers Mk3 but I learnt quite a bit that I didn't know before. I hope you're feeling a lot better.

[theproject]

Better than some of the competition with many more subscribers! Good job!

[gideonsgate]

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[tommasobalconi]

Hope you'll get better soon and get back with more interesting info to share, I thoroughly enjoy these in-depth discussions of yours. I'm also looking forward to your collaborations with The Tanks Encyclopedia YT channel. They may lend a couple more subscribers as well ;)

[homelessEh]

it is also clear to me that Vickers.. could and should have their own damn techtree in wot and or war thunder.. a tree all their own seeing how they aimed for Parity against every other design ever made lol if X company made it Vickers had a analog version in the works lol

[MisteriosGloriosos]

*Thanks for sharing this vid. Liked & subcribed!*

[georgesabitbol]

I still wonder why they decided to reduce the armor thickness of the for the Mk. 3 cast turret given that the weight saving must have been marginal.

[killerspade]

It's quite unfortunate that none of these are really preserved. The Mk.3i is one of my favourite vehicles, shame it never went anywhere!

[iansheppard]

It seems to me that western tanks of the Cold War era were struggling to keep up in armoured protection against their Soviet counterparts, although the Chieftain came close. The T54/55, T62 and T72 tanks all sported excellent armour on tanks around the 40 ton mark with adequate guns and speed. There probably are compromises in Soviet design, but their battle attributes in armour and firepower seem to have been recognised and feared by the west just the same.

[petesheppard]

Vickers seemed to be regarded as a threat to Big British Tank.