P6

CHIEFTAIN PRE-PRODUCTION VEHICLE P6

Confirmed Surviving Other

Date in Service 01 Jan 1962

Colour Bare metal (heavily corroded)

Last Known Location Kirkcudbright Training Area (range wreck…

Last Confirmed 21 Dec 2025

Notes

Pre-production Chieftain P6, one of the first batch of Chieftains built, constructed circa 1961-1963. Used as a range target hulk at Kirkcudbright Training Area, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland. Hull plate marked P6 visible in photographs. Heavily stripped and deteriorated. Visually confirmed in situ alongside P5. Not in Merlin — predates the registration system. DU contamination likely given location on same range as P5.

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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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