“ The British employed the Scorpion during the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus, the 1982 Falklands War, and the First Gulf War in 1991. The vehicle’s light ground pressure and blistering speed ...

British Army’s Scimitar Light Tank: Ukraine Donations Offer New Lease of Life The remaining fleet of FV107 Scimitar light tanks, formerly in service with the British Army, is currently awaiting ...

The video, posted to YouTube by TankNutDave, shows the man, Dave, driving a British CVR Scorpion Light Tank through the town of Kettering to gas up at the local Tesco station.

These days, light tanks are making something of a comeback in the West, too. In 2023, the U.S. Army unveiled the M-10 Booker, a 42-ton vehicle referred to as both a "combat vehicle" and a light tank.

Last year, then-Defence Secretary Penny Mordaunt suggested the tank was obsolete and noted that many of British Army’s Challenger 2 tanks have been in service for more than twenty years without ...