Summary: Promotional film for Chieftain focuses on the 120mm main armament and demonstrates its accuracy and effectiveness on hard targets.
Description: Presenting the successor to the Centurion, the Chieftain is shown firing across test ground fields, possibly Kirkcudbright. New features include a 120mm gun of improved performance, a revolutionary multi-fuelled engine, high mobility, low silhouette, reduced driver fatigue and simple maintenance. Showing the effective use of the 120mm APDS (Armour Piercing Discarding Sabot) shot from the gun at single thick plates of long and short ranges, and also against multiple plates. Chieftains ability to engage in a number of targets within a short time and its accuracy at a very long range is demonstrated, along with the versatility of the high explosive squash head (HESH).
