How did a British tank, originally designed to fight Nazis, end up in Israeli use to battle Soviet tanks manned by Syrians? The answer explains why the Centurion is one of history’s great tanks.

The origin story of the Centurion – one of Britain's most important tanks and perhaps one of the most influential tank designs ever– goes all the way back to the Second World War.

Enterprising Ukrainian technicians even have fitted the old D-44 gun to 1970s-vintage MT-LB armored tractors to produce a new kind of tank-destroyer. An MT-LB-44.