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The Challenger 2 is the third vehicle of this name, the first being the A30 Challenger, a World War II design using the Cromwell tank chassis with a 17-pounder gun. The second was the Persian Gulf War era Challenger 1, which was the British army's main battle tank (MBT) from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s.
The L30A1, officially designated Gun, 120 mm, Tank L30, is a British-designed 120 mm rifled tank gun, installed in the turrets of Challenger 2 main battle tanks.It is an improved production model of the Royal Ordnance L11 series of rifled tank guns.
A development of the Challenger 2 Life Extension Programme (LEP), the Challenger 3 has a new turret and an improved hull. The L30A1 120 mm rifled gun has been replaced with the new NATO-Standard Rheinmetall L55A1 120 mm smoothbore gun ; a derivative of Rh-120 gun in use with the Leopard 2A6 and 2A7 .
British-supplied Challenger 2 main battle tanks have arrived in Ukraine and will soon begin combat missions, the country’s defence minister has said.. The UK promised 14 of the vehicles to ...
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2nd Royal Tank Regiment - 44 Challenger 2s, 22 CVR(T) Scimitars. Two regiments of the Territorial Army, the Royal Wessex Yeomanry and the Royal Mercian and Lancastrian Yeomanry, provided replacement crews for the regular regiments. The 1st Royal Tank Regiment also operated a small number of Challenger 2 tanks for training and demonstration.
The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards raise the regimental flag on their Challenger 2. The regiment saw active service during the Gulf War in 1991 deploying 57 Challenger tanks [6] and in Bosnia as part of SFOR in 1996–97. [7] In 1998, it became the first regiment in the British Army to operate the Challenger 2 main battle tank. [8]
British Army Challenger 2 The most recent US Army M1 Abrams. The concept of ceramic armour goes back to 1918, when Major Neville Monroe Hopkins discovered that a plate of ballistic steel was much more resistant to penetration if covered with a thin (1–2 millimetres) layer of enamel.