When British-built Chieftain tanks met Soviet-designed T-62s on the battlefields of the Iran–Iraq War in 1981, it was a clash ...

The Challenger 1 was conceived as an upgrade of the British Chieftain tank. The Chieftain's primary shortcoming was its lack of armor, leaving it vulnerable to opposing tank fire.

The British Chieftain was one of the most powerful tanks of the Cold War period. At the time of its introduction in 1966, it was the largest, most heavily armed main battle tank on either side ...

The British Government has repossessed the two mighty Chieftain tanks it lent Israel for testing in the desert. The tanks, the heaviest and most powerful in the British armory, have been ...

The Jordanian version of the Chieftain was fitted with a more reliable Perkin Engines power plant, which the British military later used in the follow-on Challenger tank. According to open sources, ...

Right now the tanks of four nations are facing each other across battle lines: the British Chieftain, the West German Leopard, the French AMX30 and the U.S. M60.

Officials sources said here today that Britain’s refusal to sell Chieftain tanks to Israel at this time did not imply a permanent ban on the sale of weapons to that country.

West Germany had considered buying the larger British Chieftain tank, or the American M60, 45 and 51 tons respectively. They were both rejected by Bonn as too heavy and not mobile enough.

Before the 1979 Islamic Revolution, the late Iranian Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi paid the sum, in 400 million British pounds, for Chieftain tanks that were never delivered.