A34 Comet Tank A Technical History (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781326873776)

The A34 Comet was the ultimate iteration of the Cruiser series of fast, mobile tanks, and built on the hard lessons that had been learned with earlier designs. However, it was also brought into being at a time when British industrial capacity was nearing exhaustion, and when officialdom already had one eye on the transition to more profitable peacetime production. As such, the Comet saga was one of the husbanding of the scarce, and declining, resources available to the tank programme against the backdrop of a conflict whose end was already in sight. As this book demonstrates in depth, the result was a well-balanced design that optimised the possibilities presented by the previous Cruisers. However, it would be outshone by its ubiquitous successor, the A41 Centurion.

Author: P. M. Knight
ISBN-10: 1326873776
ISBN-13: 9781326873776
Publisher: Lulu.com
Language: English
Published: 11/25/2016
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.51d