why do nearly all the british tank names begin with a c ?

because we like crumpets?

No idea to be honest but most of them make sense, Challenger = Challenges, Chieftan = Chief tank i gues

crumpets

HHHHMMMM CRUMPETS (A british Homer J Simpson)

Maybe because they all go "over C's" to fight[:@] Never thought about that, like the Calentine, Catilda, little Cilly, Cirefly, Cetrarch, Cickers light, Caimler and Cerret armored cars, oh yeah, the Cox too. . Now do you C?

ha ha very funny!!!!! [sm=teeth_smile.gif][sm=teeth_smile.gif]

thats why i said nearly, ok all the tanks after ww2[X(],

without humor, it's a boring life. Crumpets don't work...I have wheat allegies and can't eat them.

I think all the cruiser tanks had names beginning with “C� the first being the Covenanter, the exception being the Churchill, which was an infantry tank. Since the war all British MBTs have had names beginning with “C�.

I don’t think there’s much rhyme or reason behind the “C� designation other than it was originally applied to cruiser tanks in WW2.

and don't most Russian tanks start with "T"

Mainline tanks were/are T...Russian for tank is tank. (6ak). Earlier light(fast) tanks were BTs. KV= Klementi Voroshalov and IS (ISU) for Iosef Stalin.

what do you mean another brel type question rofl rofl roflmao

any the answer is the british tanks were mainly CRAP

And, only made in very small numbers. Unlike the Sherman and T34.

Hopefully by the end of the year they will start with an H.





As in Heng Long Churchill British Tank.

Brel question? As in Jacques Brel? So it's a musical question?

jerry

Could it possibly be that the "C" is derived from Cavalry??? Most British Tank Regiments, before they became "Armoured" Regiments, were Cavalry Units after all ....

We Canadians have our "8th Canadian Hussars (Princess Louise's)", "Fort Gary Horse (M)" and "Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians)". Does any of that sound like there might have been a Cavalry connection ...?

Just a thought......

pretty hard to crank out high numbers in an unheated factory at 30 below and dodging bombs.

At least the US has stayed to one system; T for test or made for export only (T-16 = US Bren, T-17 E1/E2 = Staghound)and M for standardized vehicle. That makes it a bit easier.

What is more confusing is the British unit marking system of military vehicles. US is simple, German is a bit more complex but is very logical, with a little confusion between different HQ, (ie; SS or Wehmacht, or STU) Japanese, no standard system, Russians had none other than crew applied political grafitti, but the British [:@][:@]

bang on chally ,well thats what i believed anyway

Oh, yeah....

But is an M-60 armor, or a GP machine gun?

M3 an antiquated bull dozer, or an antiquated, but deadly, machine pistol (or sub-MG if you prefer).

Tis a puzzelment!

Or the M39 and M40. Two bolted Italian tin cans from the desert war.

Guess that is why we have something called standard military nomenclature following the letter-number designation; ie M-60 machine gun and opposed to 105mm Gun Tank, M-60. Try P-38, can opener (issued with C rats) or P-38 "Lightning" a twin Boom fighter aircraft. M-39 Armored Carrier or M-39 Bell Aerocobra, or M-39 Lynx Armored car..or German machine pistol...Same as the A, E or B breakdown on vehicles..M-3 Medium tank or M-3A1 Light tank. M-4A3 or A1 Medium tank or M-32A1B3 Vehicle, Tank Retriever or M-36B2 Tank destroyer. [X(] M-1 Cal 30 Garand rifle....M-1 Cal 30 Carbine, M-1 Abrams tank, or hundrends of other designations for M-1 in every concievable catagory, identified by reading the complete ID.

Don't think a Wehrmacht Soldat would confuse his MP-40 for an Italian M-40 Semovente 75/18, or the US 155mm Gun motor carriage M-40. Either of which would put a serious strain on the sling and shoulder. Nomenclature should always be listed complete to include leter-numeric designator and descriptive listing. We still have a pretty simple system. Common sense dictates appropriate use of complete identifying nomenclature when referring to a particular item of issue. [>:] If I ordered an M-1 Garand and received an Abrams, don't think I would be upset...until I had to gas it up.[:@]

Yes, we do that to confuse you foreigners (and ourselves of course). I do like the pictures of small rodents on some of our tanks, it makes them look more homely, in my opinion.

If you didn't understand "The Prisoner"(Paddy McGoohan was born in America) or laughed at "Monty Python" (one of the team was a Yank, by the way), then you have no hope of understanding Britishness.

I still don't fully understand what it means to be British to this day, I'm still trying to be English(), but it has been a fun ride. All aspects considered.

We Canadians seem to get as much mileage out of the letter "C" as our American neighbours do out of that "M" as a designator

"C-2" in my day meant a 7.62mm rifle or one of the "new" Leopard Tanks. Our soldiers are carrying what is basically the M-16 but is referred to nowadays as a "C-6" or "C-7" and our new Leos are (I believe) also designated"C-6" 's...

Obvious where the "C" comes from -but it's still confusing!

(The Iron Dahlia, by the way, was/is a huge fan of "The Prisoner" ! )

you mean like Matilda, Valietine, Grant, Firefly, Tetrarch, etc? It seems to me that "most", but not all, of the "C" tanks are dramatic evolutions of one or two tank types. But again I am "c"etainly not an expert on British tin, err armor. lol