I got an itch to build a model of a tank some time ago, and I decided to go with a British Centurion. In the preliminary stages of my research, I happened across this picture from an article on the tank here. I was intrigued as to what that disk/dish structure is facing forward on the turret was, though I didn’t bother to investigate further until I found a photograph of a Centurion with that piece of hardware attached.
What is that thing, anyway? What does it do? I want to include one on my model for aesthetic purposes. It looks pretty neat, if you ask me.
Yup. The Centurion is an old boy - even the Danish army has mothballed it now - and the modern passive systems (light amplification, thermal imaging) weren’t around then. So night aiming had to be done with IR or even visible light.
Here’s a few photos of an Australion Centurion - searchlight clearly visible.
