A Ukrainian Challenger 2 with add-on glacis armor. The Ukrainian army has added protection to its British-made Challenger 2 tanks. The add-on armor, on the lower front of the 69-ton, four-person ...

The Challenger 2 emerged as a heavily redesigned successor to the Challenger 1 tank, which in its only combat—the 1991 Gulf War versus Iraq—performed well, destroying around 300 tanks, and ...

The formidable Challenger 2's main gun is a 120mm L3OA1 with extraordinary capacities.In a social media video by Defense Of Ukraine in September 2023, one crew member declared the model to be ...

The Challenger 2 has a unique main gun The Challenger 2’s L30 120-millimeter cannon is a problem. In contrast to the smoothbore cannons on contemporary Western tanks, the L30 is rifled .

Ukrainian soldiers who are undergoing training at Bovington Camp, a British Army military base, pose on top of an FV 4034 Challenger 2 tank in southwest England, on February 22, 2023.

The UK confirmed it will send a small number of Challenger 2 tanks to Ukraine. The powerful tank would easily outmatch any Russian battle tanks, an expert told Insider. However, the bigger impact ...

The Challenger 3’s new German turret features a new Rheinmetall L55A1 smoothbore 120-millimeter gun with ammunition interchangeable with that of NATO allies, unlike the Challenger 2’s unique ...