Bücher veröffentlicht von Oficyna Wydawnicza KAGERO Damian Majsak

The introduction into British army service of the Challenger2 Main Battle Tank (MBT) was originally intended to take a mere eighteen months from design to production, but in the event, it took something closer to ten years. Why this was so is an important part of the Challenger 2 story, and although on the face of it this might seem to be a clear failure, it actually produced the most thoroughly tested and reliable tank ever to enter service with the Royal Armoured Corps (RAC). The tank has now been in service for twenty years and can be expected to form part of the British army¿s inventory ¿ albeit in low numbers ¿ until around 2035, which would make it the longestserving frontline battle tank ever used by the UK.

The work on the design of future long-range active anti-aircraft and anti-submarine ship ¿ as it was initially determined ¿ was conducted by the Leningrad CKB-17 in close cooperation with OKB-938 led by N.I. Kamov. The author of the ship¿s design, which was given the number 1123 and the code ¿Kondor¿, was A.S. Sawiczew, and from 1967 ¿ A.W. Marinich. The main task of the ship was to search and destroy American nuclear submarines carrying ¿Polaris¿ ballistic missiles in the Antarctic Ocean and Barents Sea.