Centurions modified as armoured personnel carriers were used in Gaza, the West Bank and on the Lebanese border. Israel's army used Centurions in the 1967 Six-Day War, the 1973 Yom Kippur War, the 1978 South Lebanon conflict, and the 1982 Lebanon War.
The Centurion later served on the Indian side in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965, where it fought against US-supplied M47 and M48 Patton tanks, and it served with the Royal Australian Armoured Corps in the Vietnam War. It entered combat with the British Army in the Korean War in 1950 in support of the UN forces. Six prototypes arrived in Belgium less than a month after the war in Europe ended in May 1945. It was a very popular tank with good armour, mobility, and a powerful main armament.ĭevelopment of the Centurion began in 1943 with manufacture beginning in January 1945. The chassis was adapted for several other roles, and these variants have remained in service. Introduced in 1945, it is widely considered to be one of the most successful post-War tank designs, remaining in production into the 1960s, and seeing combat into the 1980s. The Centurion was the primary British Army main battle tank of the post- World War II period.
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