Re:Ukrainian soldiers arrive in Britain for tank training
by alaurie on Monday January 30, 2023 @12:18AM
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As an ex Challenger 2 crewman, I'm interested to see how this goes. However the UK wont want any damaged ones getting into the hands of the Russians as the Chobham armour is one of the many advantages that the Challenger 2 has over the T series tanks.
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Re:Ukrainian soldiers arrive in Britain for tank training
by simplotek on Monday January 30, 2023 @02:51AM
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Honest question: taking in consideration the major busts that are the T14 Armata or the BMPT Terminator programs, would Russia have the know-how in place to do anything with a Challenger?
Re:Ukrainian soldiers arrive in Britain for tank training
by TheLoafOfBread on Monday January 30, 2023 @06:33AM
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Well they could get finally a proper engine from Challenger. The one on T14 is unreliable PoS.
Re:Ukrainian soldiers arrive in Britain for tank training
by gggggg5 on Monday January 30, 2023 @06:26AM
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> However the UK wont want any damaged ones getting into the hands of the Russians as the Chobham armour is one of the many advantages that the Challenger 2 has over the T series tanks.
This is utter nonsense, Russia simply lacks the manufacturing capability to produce such armour. Having access to a sample of British composite armour will not and can not help them at all, except perhaps in developing munitions to reliably penetrate it.