Key Points - Britain’s Challenger 3 will finally drag the Army’s tank fleet into the modern era with a new 120mm gun, upgraded armor and active protection—all bolted onto refurbished Challenger 2 ...

Economic exhaustion, decolonization, and the rise of the United States and Soviet Union pushed Britain out of the superpower ...

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 ...

Since then, Britain has substantially lacked an adequate MBT force in general. In 2023, it was reported that Britain had around 200 MBTs in their arsenal. But a mere 20 percent of those tanks—around ...