Summary and Key Points: The British Challenger 2 has proven to be a vital, though heavy, asset for Ukraine’s 82nd Airborne Assault Brigade. -Renowned for its Dorchester composite armor, the tank ...

Key Points and Summary - The British Challenger 2 is renowned for its exceptional crew survivability, a feature attributed to its highly classified Dorchester 2 composite armor, considered one of the ...

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 ...

What's amazing about the first version of the Challenger is that it holds the record for the furthest sucessful tank kill ever carried out. During the Gulf War, the Challenger was able to blow up an ...

The United Kingdom's Challenger 2 main battle tank is heavier, weirder, and slower than its Western stablemates, the M1 Abrams and Leopard 2. But until this September, it retained a notable ...

Previously undefeated in combat — as far as we know — a British-made Challenger 2 main battle tank has been knocked out for the first time, in Ukrainian hands. Most importantly, however, all four crew ...

Ukraine is adding an extra piece of armor to its British Challenger 2 tanks to protect a weak spot. The front of the tank's hull is less protected because it was designed for defensive combat. A ...

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 a key request from Kyiv that will provide a major boost to ...

SOUTHERN ENGLAND, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 23: Ukrainian recruits and their British Armed Forces trainers complete a session on the operation of a Challenger II tank at a military facility, on February 23, ...

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 tanks ...