Only a few months ago the UK promised to supply 14 Challenger 2 tanks to Ukraine, a move which helped persuade other western nations to supply their own tanks to aid the fight against the Russian
An £800 million (US$1.3 billion) contract to upgrade the British Army’s Challenger main battle tank was recently awarded to Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land, with the aim of producing the ‘most lethal tank in Europe’. But will the Challenger 3 programme fare better than some of the United Kingdom’s other recent armoured-vehicle efforts?
The Challenger 2 carries a crew of 4 and has a combat weight of 62.5 tonnes. It has a maximum road speed of 56 km/h and a range of 250 km cross country and 450 km on the road. The Challenger 2
The British Army needs new main battle tanks—bad. Realistically, it has two options. Rebuild some of the roughly 220 aging, obsolete Challenger 2s. Or buy German.
Hamish de Bretton Gordon, former commanding officer of the 1st Royal Tank Regiment in the British Army, says the Challengers being sent by the UK are vastly superior to anything the Russians have
The Leopard 2 measures 9.67 meters (31.7 feet) in length, while the Challenger 2 measures 9.75 meters (32.4 feet) (32 feet). In terms of dimensions, the tanks are 3.75 meters (12.3 feet) in width and 2.49 meters (8.2 feet) in height (8.2 feet). As for numbers, the Challenger 2 has five people on board, whereas the Leopard 2 only has four.
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