The Vickers Main Battle tanks were a notable series of vehicles produced from the mid-1950s to the early 2000s. These tanks had a mixed reputation, with some designs excelling and others failing, but ...

VICKERS Defence Systems has been dealt an 11th hour blow in its battle for a £2bn tank order from the Greek government after rival Kraus-Maffei Wegmann of Germany undercut the UK company's bid ...

VICKERS has been awarded a £250m contract by the Ministry of Defence for a new fleet of tanks for the British Army. Vickers, part of Rolls-Royce, will produce 66 heavy armoured engineer vehicles ...

TANK manufacturer Vickers has been selected as the preferred bidder to build a new generation of tanks for the British Army. The Vickers plant in Newcastle has been selected to construct 66 bridge ...

Army top brass have sounded the death knell for Vickers' Challenger 2 tank. Despite being hailed by the military as one of the greatest tanks in the world, chiefs believe the multi-million-pound ...

The Ministry of Defence today awarded a £250 million contract to Vickers Defence Systems for a new fleet of tanks for the British Army. Defence Procurement Minister Baroness Symons made the ...

Workers at Tyneside's Alvis Vickers tank factory were told this morning the company is being bought by a rival American defence giant. General Dynamics, one of the biggest defence firms in the ...

Rolls-Royce yesterday strengthened its hand in any sale of its Vickers Defence Systems by tying up a £250m order from the British army for 66 new variants of the Challenger tank. The deal means ...

But fears that it will result in the closure of the Vickers tank factory in Newcastle, which is close to Tony Blair's Sedgefield constituency, have held up talks. Alvis, the maker of the Scorpion ...

TANK manufacturer Vickers has been selected as the preferred bidder to build a new generation of tanks for the British Army. The Vickers plant in Newcastle has been selected to construct 66 bridge ...