Project Contentious – Tank Design & Development

A look at the first of the two vehicles as part of Project Contentious, both these vehicles were designed as part of Project Prodigal a huge overlapping exercise to find newer lighter AFV’s for the future. Often mistakenly referred to as FV4401, this is in fact the 2nd vehicle to bare the same name and was developed between the late 50’s and early 60’s. Today b2 vehicles of this project survive at the tank museum.