The driver sits in the hull at front-left with the powerpack to his right. Her crew of three includes the driver, commander and gunner. Indeed, she was designed for air transport in the belly of a Lockheed C-130 Hercules in pairs. Dimensions include a length of 17.4 feet, a width of 7 feet and a height of 7 feet making her a most combat battlefield system. The drive sprocket is forward with the track idler at rear and no track return rollers are implemented. The Scorpion is a 9-ton vehicle utilizing a track-over-wheel arrangement that sees five road wheels to each hull side. While no longer in active service with the British, the tank can still be found in the inventories of foreign powers. Operators eventually grew out of the UK (1,500 tanks) to include Belgium, Chile, Indonesia, Iran, Jordan, Malaysia, Spain, Thailand and Venezuela among others.
Combat history included the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s, the Falklands War of 1982 and the Persian Gulf War of 1991. The Scorpion entered service with the British Army in 1973 and was in active use until 1993 with some 3,000 examples being delivered.
One of these products became the Scorpion Light Tank intended for fast, armed reconnaissance and featuring a minimal crew of three.
During the 1960s, the British Army adopted a tracked family concept under the Combat Vehicle Reconnaissance, Tracked (CVR-T) name which begat an entire lineup of light-class systems all manufactured under the Alvis Vehicles Limited brand label.
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