05SP50 — Chieftain Archive

Notes

SP-series Special Projects vehicle, not in Merlin. SP prefix indicates registration outside the main fleet at MVEE/FVRDE/DERA Chertsey. Photographed 2012. Single centrally-mounted headlight configuration is consistent with a Khalid/Shir-derived export hull or FV4030-series trials vehicle rather than a standard British Army MBT. The single headlight arrangement was a feature of export variant hulls (Chieftain Mk5/3(C), Khalid). This is the same hull specification observed on 00FD89 (Mk5/3(C) export variant). SP plate 05SP50 suggests a later SP-series trials vehicle compared to the 03SP-prefix vehicles (03SP01/00FC51 and 03SP15/05FA97). Current location unknown. Possible survivor.

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Data source: Service history and last known location are sourced from the British Army Merlin Archive, the official vehicle inventory system covering records up to 2012 when the archive was declassified. Survival status has been assessed from the last recorded unit — vehicles may have changed hands, been restored, or been scrapped since then. If you have current information about this vehicle, please submit a correction.

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Service History

Movement records from the British Army Merlin Archive

01 Jan 1972

Special Projects registration, MVEE/FVRDE/DERA Chertsey Receipt: 01 Jan 1972

01 Jan 2012

Unknown location — photographed 2012, Khalid-spec single headlight Receipt: 01 Jan 2012

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