I can show you my Rolleiflex T.
The model was favoured by the British Ministry of Defence - to an extent where the T model was brought back into production in 1971 due to an order of several thousands cameras.
The deliveries continued up to 1976.
It was used by the Army and Royal Navy.
It was said to have replaced Hasselblad due to the latter requiring too much service.
The T was claimed to last up to 15 years of hard use before requiring service.
The T model is said to have been used actively by BMoD well into the 90's or longer, thus theoretically also during British engagement in armed conflict and war - such as the Falkland War.
I can verify that I used a Rollie T in 1965 when in the British Army where I was tasked to photograph a catastrophic road crash from the cockpit of a Bell Helicopter. It was chosen to do it this way because the crash scene in Cyprus was over 100 yards long involving several vehicles on and off the road when the driver of a Saracen APC had suffered a heart attack at the controls and it could not be stopped until it hit a very solid tree. A 16 ton, 6 wheel drive armoured vehicle takes a lot of stopping.
