We salute you on our Adult & Child Tank Experience in Leicestershire! You are all welcome on this mud-filled driving and shooting extravaganza - the only prerequisite is that one person aged 16 years or over drives and one is the passenger (can be an adult or a child aged at least eight).
You will both immediately get into the spirit of the day as you are kitted out in proper military overalls and army-style helmets to meet the fiendish FV432 tank. This type of armoured personnel carrier (although no longer on the front line), is still an integral part of military operations and it's a real coup to be able to get up close to, ride in and drive one of these fully tracked tanks.
To start off, you will both be passengers in the 17 tonne beast, thundering along the beautiful Leicestershire countryside at this former WW2 bombing range. One of the professional instructors will be at the controls, so you will find out just what these FV432s are capable of on the battlefield.
You'll then pull up in a strategic position for the second part of your experience. Get ready for battle as you fire the air cannon to try and obliterate the targets in the field of combat in front of you. Taking turns to load and fire, you will be working that 40mm air cannon mounted on the front turret of the tank - it's all about working as a team at this point!
Once the enemy targets have been neutralised, it'll be safe for the nominated driver (who must be over 16) to get the FV432 rumbling around the track. Once you have the controls sussed, you will head off on two laps of the circuit.
That all might be pretty easy (and great fun), but the Adult & Child tank experience concludes with one more challenge - negotiating the same track once more, but with the hatch closed in full battle mode! This is what it's really like commanding a tank in a war zone, using only the periscope to navigate the way
