IDF Armored Corps Museum - Charioteer Tank Destroyer

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Charioteer Tank
Destroyer

This tank destroyer was built on a Cromwell Cruiser chassis and was up gunned with a Centurion 20 pounder main gun. Two British made Charioteer lightweight tanks were captured from terrorist forces in Southern Lebanon during Operation Latani in 1978.

The British sold 24 Charioteers to Jordan in 1954. Jordan then passed them on to Lebanon. When the Lebanese army disintegrated during the civil war (1975-1990), the PLO took a few and used them in Southern Lebanon.