![]() With the new Chobham-based armor package, this turret also offered a choice of guns that could be fitted, such as the RO L7 and L11 105 mm and 120 mm rifles and the Rheinmetall 120 mm smoothbore. This turret could fit a variety of tanks through the use of a universal coupling, a design that also permitted the Vickers Shipbuilding 155 mm howitzer turret to fit a variety of vehicles. The success of the Valiant though was a Universal Turret concept. They had some export success with the Vickers Mk.3 and some failure in the form of the Mk.4 – better known as the Valiant. That company, which had nearly a century of tank building experience was based in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne in the northeast of England. The work on the Vickers Mk.7 built on the experience and knowledge of the engineers at the British firm of Vickers. Note the position of the smoke grenade launchers is on the turret cheeks. Source: Vickers A model of the Vickers Mk.7 MBT with 120 mm L11A5 rifled gun. Vickers Mk.4 / Valiant during early trials. The market being eyed was, once more, the lucrative Middle Eastern one. The solution to both a new hull and the mobility problem was found in the form of the West German Leopard 2 hull and mating the Vickers Universal Turret to that hull produced a very capable vehicle known as the Vickers Mk.7/2. When the hull for Valiant was ruined in an accident and with significant money already spent by Vickers and its partners, it needed a new option. ![]() With the design a failure and the need for a new successful product, the firm of Vickers was spurred at the end of the Valiant project to combine its own Universal Turret concept with a new high mobility hull and was considering its own options for a Valiant 2.
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