1 May 2024 - The Challenger 3 Main Battle Tank programme is the first British-built tank in 22 years and supports hundreds of ...

A venerable bruiser of a machine that weighed a minimum of 62 tons, the Challenger 1's innovative Chobham composite armor would have been the toast of any MBT in the world had the American Abrams ...

Programming to cost around £1.3bn ($1.62bn) in 2021, should expenditure remain on track it will mean an outlay of £8.8m on ...

Britain has been using the Challenger 2 main battle tank (MBT) since it was first introduced in the 1990s. Plans to upgrade the U.K.'s fleet of MBTs in the early 2000s, but issues arose, and the ...

The British Army has pulled back the curtain on Challenger 3, its next main battle tank. It’s a remanufactured Challenger 2, brought up to modern standards. The U.K. will buy only 148 main ...

Weighing 64 tons, the Challenger 2 is one of the heaviest main battle tanks around, but it still has a lot of speed despite the bulk. Most of the weight is down to the tank's heavy armor plating.

Enter the Challenger 3 MBT. The Challenger 3 tank is the latest iteration of the British Army’s main battle tank, designed and built by Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land (RBSL).

The Abrams, Challenger 2, ... The Abrams family of tanks was derived from a joint U.S.-West German effort to field successor MBT variants for the M60 and Leopard 1, respectively.

The Challenger 3 Main Battle Tank (MBT), which will be delivered to the British Army by Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land (RBSL) under an £800 million (US$1 billion) contract, will stay in service beyond ...

Back in late 2022, Great Britain pledged to send at least 14 surplus Challenger 2 tanks as a means of defending against Russia's formidable stable consisting of the T-72, the T-80, the T-90, and ...

U.S. and Germany supplying Ukraine with tanks 02:08. Washington — President Biden announced Wednesday that the U.S. will send 31 top-of-the-line M-1 Abrams battle tanks to Ukraine, delivering on ...

The Challenger 3 main battle tank (MBT) has achieved all programme milestones to date at RBSL's facility at Telford, according to Rory Breen, strategy and future business director at the company. RBSL ...