Tanks Chats #169 | Scimitar Mark 1 & Scimitar Mark 2 | The Tank Museum
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Published 2023-01-20
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00:00 | Intro
00:54 | Historical Context
03:19 | CVRT & CVRW
05:40 | Family Development
10:40 | Production
11:25 | Usage & Specs
16:15 | Evolution & Service
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All Comments (21)
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Hi there Tank Nuts! What do you think of David's take on the CVRT family? Let us know in the comments.
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Can we just take a minute and admire David's dapper attire? Stay classy, David. Great episode.
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Any British boy of a certain age now would’ve had a Scorpion Tank for his Action Man. Unforgettable fun.
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Petition for you to stock that amazing coat in the shop
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With David standing in that coat, he looks like he's trying to sell the tanks to someone in a car park behind a local train station, cash-in-hand.
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I think the replacement for the Scorpion family, the Ajax, should be renamed Achilles as it proving to have many heels. It's bizarre considering they were working off a proven vehicle in the ASCOD. It takes a special kind of ineptitude to screw it up as much as they have.
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We use the fv107 variant here in Latvia, we are very fond of it and you used a photo of us using it in the thumbnail, very nice :)
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I’m still nostalgic for my Spartan. How else can you transport a BV at 100 kmh except in a CVR(T)?
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Really love to hear David Willey. Im from Germany and can listen to him easily. He speaks verry unterstandible, also foreign people like me
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Very interesting - and I hadn't heard of Scimitar 2 before. What a tremendous acquisition success story the CVRT family is.
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Awesome coat Mr Willey!
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Scimitar 1 had air-conditioning as part of a theatre upgrade for Herrick in the form of tubes you could shove into your body armour, it wasn't great but they were better than having nothing at all which we found out when the Aircon units themselves started to break down
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Came for the CVR{T}, Stayed for the super duper model! Hello David, I hear GQ calling!💣😎
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Excellent piece of work David. Your Tank Chats are the highlight of my Friday lunchtime
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I am glad the Army saw fit to continue the trend of easily transportable and light vehicles for reconnaissance and cavalry tasks with Ajax. :face-blue-smiling:
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I remember the RAF regiment being trained by my regiments gunnery instructors. I use to joke about my company car being a Jaguar, due to Scorpions engine.
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Nice to see this. I was a Scimitar commander for 2 years and Striker shooter for 3 years. (76 - 81). The Striker was very accurate. I fired 14 missiles and never missed.
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Love the coat! Takes me back - spent a month as an Exchange LT in BAOR patrolling the inner German border. Loved the combination of Jaguar engine and black ice (an unknown entity to someone from down under).
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I've waited a while for the Scimitar to be done after Mr. Fletcher did the scorpion, upset that he's retired now and can't do this one himself but loved watching this regardless.
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I used to see train loads of this family of vehicles coming from the Alvis plant and passing my school in Coventry. Later, I watched the Jaguar engines being assembled at the Radford engine plant. One man was responsible for ensuring they were built to MOD spec.
