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Britain’s next main battle tank, the Challenger 3, has driven 2,000 kilometers and fired more than 200 rounds in testing, with harder trials due...
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Britain’s next main battle tank, the Challenger 3, has driven 2,000 kilometers and fired more than 200 rounds in testing, with harder trials due...
Britain sent 14 Challenger 2s to Ukraine in 2023, watched the 82nd Air Assault Brigade turn them into long-range fire support, lost at least...
Britain’s Challenger 3 gets a new turret, a Rheinmetall 120mm L55A1 smoothbore, and a 66-ton weight, down from 75, but the turret gearbox is...
Britain’s Challenger 3 is a rebuilt Challenger 2: new turret, L55A1 smoothbore, Farnham armor. Russia’s T-14 Armata puts three crew in a hull capsule...
It was supposed to be operational in 2017. It was not cleared until November 2025, trials were halted again until April 2026, and it...
The Ministry of Defence awarded RBSL £800 million in May 2021 for 148 Challenger 3 vehicles, near £2 billion across the whole of life....
The gearbox that rotates the Challenger 3's turret is reportedly not strong enough to cope with the up-armoured turret it has to turn. According...
In December 2021 the British Ministry of Defence identified 310 soldiers adversely affected by noise and vibration while operating the Ajax armoured vehicle. Seventeen...
The British Army ordered 386 Challenger-2 main battle tanks and sent them to Kosovo, Iraq and eventually Ukraine. Iraqi T-55s lost every engagement with...
In 1916, an agricultural works in Lincoln built the first tanks in history and sent them to the Somme. In 2002, Britain delivered the...