The Chieftain Family / War Thunder

Centurion tanks, developed during WW2, served the British army well. The design proved to be effective, and the arrival of the legendary Royal Ordnance L7 cannon allowed the ‘Cent’ to be in use a full fifteen years after it was first accepted into service. Nevertheless, the Centurion was still undergoing trials, when the far-sighted British started working on the successor vehicle. After quite a lot of time spent developing the A45 Universal Tank, engineers finally came up with the Conqueror heavy tank… which, by the standards of the 1950’s, was already somewhat dated.


#WarThunder

[seb_]

Fix the insane Repair costs on the Centurions and Caernarvon so we all don't go broke trying to get the bloody chieftans

[saikuunwt]

Just one similarities between all of em:
They all use Tea as fuel!

[richardz.c.]

Favorite Chieftain... which crushed Mr. Bean's poor little MINI Cooper

[gegeji]

My favorite Chieftain is Nicholas "The Chieftain" Moran.

[blitz_]

shows the 20 pdr when they talk about the L7 105 mm at 0:16 lol

[isharveerdhillon]

I mean a British tank isn't British if it doesn't has a Teamaker

[MASACR]

Would be nice if I could play with my british tanks without losing money every goddamm time because my tanks cost 15k+ to repair

[LupusGelos]

Heres hoping they add in the "Khalid" MBT, highly upgraded Chieftain tanks with 1200Horespower engines and the aiming system of the Challenger 1.

[oskar_]

"You know you're fighting a brittish tank when the enemy stops for a tea break." -Josef Stalin.

[connoissuer_of_class]

Love how it’s more expensive to run a Cent.10 than a chieftain.

[vermilionmavis]

I feel like the mk10 make me feel safer than the challenger

[bartlamshane]

What about the chieftain mrk11 with thermals?
The Germans got a Leo a5 with thermals
Why can't britian

[peteturner]

Mk.11, last of the true service gun tanks, added STILLBREW armour and TOGS thermal gunnery system. Still let down by the Leyland L60 in the back, but when it worked it was a very potent tank that could even today still pose a threat to just about anything on the battlefield with an even half awake crew in it. I may be biased though, I served on the old girls!!!

[Atesz]

My favourite Chieftain is the one that's currently not having engine malfunctions

[prran]

Why do all chieftains and challengers have the same engine sounds, when they had very different engines? That's just lazy.

[danieloakley]

'By the 80s the Chieftain was outdated, and left much to be desired' is that why the Soviets still deployed their most up to date tanks on whatever parts of the east / west german border where Chieftains were stationed

[lordwintertown]

R.I.P, They forgot the SPAAG Variant: Chieftain Marksman which tested the Marksman system..

Ironically lt's the only chieftain I have.

[DarthBaras]

What Bruce forgot to mention is that there was an Anglo-Israeli collaboration on the development of the Chieftain's latter stages. Then Britain pulled out of a deal so that they wouldn't feel the wrath of the Arab nations. One of the nations that the British sold the Chieftain to was Iran, which seriously backfired for them when the 1979 Iranian Revolution. The experience from the collaboration spurred the creation of the Israeli Merkava, the development programme of which was led by General Israel Tal, who had worked closely with the British in the Anglo-Israeli Chieftain project.

[theprofdehist]

Before getting the chieftain, we need to spend a LOT of lion cuz of those astronomic repair cost on every british 7.0 tanks. why does it cost so much ?? Is it because it got stab at 7.0 ? Well ok but when u face 8.0 tanks with stab and heatfs shells u don't stand long, I went like bankrupt cuz of that. Can gaijin plz do something about that... 😭😭😭

[Matthijsz]

my favorite chieftain is the chieftain marksman. an episode on British SPAA would be cool, especially since there's that new ADATS in the British tree now.