Killer Tanks: Fighting the Iron Fist

The Cromwell Tank: A British Heavyweight (1x2)

: 18, 2011

It was not until 1941 that the British Army General Staff ordered a heavy cruiser tank to replace the vulnerable Crusader. With a design based around the powerful Rolls Royce Meteor, a detuned aircraft engine, the fast and agile Cromwell, which underwent several design modifications before it finally saw action at Normandy in 1944.