Challenger 2 British Main Battle Tank
$55.00
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product description
The Challenger 2 is a third generation British main battle tank in service primarily with the United Kingdom. Designed as a successor to the aging Challenger 1 main battle tank, the Challenger 2 benefitted from an extensive redesign while still sharing similar looking automotive components of the lower hull. Armed with a 120mm main gun , a coaxial 7.62mm chain gun, and a turret mounted 7.62 mm General Purpose Machine Gun (GPMG). Though unique among the various NATO main battle tanks, the British Army’s continued use of high explosive squash head (HESH), and armor piercing fin stabilized discarding sabot ammunition rounds dictated the use of a rifled main gun barrel.
Seeing operational use, as early as the 1990s, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, and Iraq, various upgrades were sought to improve the Challenger 2’s protection, mobility and lethality.