![]() ![]() Both guns had muzzle velocities very close to 3,340 feet per second.Įven so, the Centurion 3 Main Battle Tank was the most heavily armed tank of its category in the immediate postwar years. The up-rated Panther, which had design work completed but never entered production, was to be equipped with the 88mm gun used on the Tiger II. When the Centurion Mark (Mk) 3 (not to be confused with either the World War I Marks or the Matildas of World War II) was developed, it was equipped with an 83.4mm, or 20-pounder, gun. The Centurion was powered by a 600-horsepower Rolls Royce Merlin Meteor V-12 engine the Panther D used a 642-horsepower V-12 Maybach engine.Įven the next-generation Centurion seemed a shadow of the Panther. The Panther D was armed with a 75mm gun with a muzzle velocity of 3,070 feet per second. It was equipped with a 17-pounder 76.5mm gun that had a muzzle velocity of 2,950 feet per second. ![]() The Centurion Main Battle Tank weighed 42.5 tons, the Panther Model D, 43. In fact, it compared well with the Nazi German Panzerkampfwagen V Panther, which had entered service two years earlier. At first the Centurion, as the new tank was named, did not represent much, if any improvement over medium tanks then available. ![]()
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