Britain’s next main battle tank, the Challenger 3, breaks decades of British design tradition by replacing the Challenger 2’s smoothbore gun with a 120mm rifled main gun — and giving the British Army ...

The Challenger 2 main battle tank entered service in the British Army in 1994, although its development dates back to the 1980s. Since then, it has served in Yugoslavia, Eastern Europe, and Iraq in ...

As the British Army prepares to replace its aging—but still effective—Challenger 2 tanks with newer Challenger 3 ones, no determination has yet been made on what to do with them. The United Kingdom’s ...

The Challenger-3’s impressive accoutrements ignore the fact that the British military cannot reliably produce this tank in a timely manner—or in the quantity that it believes it requires. Britain’s ...

First of 148-strong fleet of tanks are expected to enter service next year Tom Cotterill is The Telegraph’s acting defence editor. He has previously written for The Daily Mail and MailOnline. A former ...

The Times newspaper reported on 19 April that the British Army is set to reduce its operational Challenger 2 main battle tank (MBT) fleet from 227 to 148 vehicles during their Life Extension Project ...

12:00, Thu, Mar 27, 2025 Updated: 12:14, Thu, Mar 27, 2025 Britain has reduced its military commitment to Estonia despite being a key NATO partner in the area, it was claimed last night. General Riho ...