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  • challenger development was partly funded by the iranian government before revolution.

  • Best and best well..... We forget that the crew is the most important factor in second you have the cost and ease of production and maintenance. The other thing is that any Armour can be penetrated. An example is WW2 when the Germans during WW2 where able to beat the French tanks that where better compare to the Panzers;better training,motivation and tactic. On the other hand the Russian T34 was a better weapon than any German over engineered tank.

    So who is better baaa

  • with all the people discussing what tank is better i think its stupid seeing a we'd never go to war against each other. That said however, back in the early 90s I'd have my money on the Abrams M1A1, because the CR1 wasnt as effective. BUT, today, from 2009 onwards, id bet everything on the Challenger 2, it has the even more protective Chobbam MK. 2 almost all over the tank.(where as the M1a2 has the Mk. 1 Chobbam, wich is effectivly obsolete when coparing the two)

  • The us wants pepole to think it's not as good. It has chabum armor and secret exploading armor with a defence system that shoots a special rocket from all angles to defeat incomming rounds. I would rather ride in a american new tank than any other.

    But I'm American , and I'm fond of our tanks.

  • That was a Rover P6 that the Challenger ran over. :(

  • it maybe better than abrams..but im for the looks...abrams looks cooler with it's thermal scope

  • It's Britains legacy to have the most advanced tank! We Invented it so will naturally have the best. :D our craftsmen and engineers are the best in the world, of course we will maintain this for centuries to come.

  • I so badly want a tank someone please buy me one

  • smoothbore shit on the abrams tank

  • i want to see howthey drive it

  • British rule it's official

  • lol just as good as chefton before it chefton was shit it came last wen all the tanks had a comp to see which was best the brits were like wtf? why are tank crap so they said i want best tank and made some geeks make 1 better they called it challenger then after made it chall 2 now its the best but we only like have 2 and a half of them couse were poor some shit like that anyway

  • Insurgents havent even done a damage kill on a Challanger tank yet but they have destroyed many US Abrams tanks. Look up Abrams graveyard.

  • Id feel friggin vulnerable if I were that driver.....

  • ha were gd at tanks hell we made the first one

  • the only similarity between the ch1 and ch2 is the outward apperence and name. they realy should have given it a different name.

  • @wraith01mg they share the same hull differences are chally 2 : different turret,full air conditioning, power adjusted track ,improved high pressure (split breach) main gun ,chain gun coax, uprated armour ,smoke generators,niose cancelling i.c. system,long range tanks as standard.Non metadyne hydraulic traverse system ,Multiple target fire control system.The main armament is to be replaced with the 120mm Rheinmetal when amunition is exhausted for the current gun.

  • @RogueBrit nope - the challenger lethality improvement programme is dead in the water. looks like the L30 will be around as long as the tank.

  • @SgtDrDeath Bullshit m8 when used properly they are (were) good

  • this argument will never end...

  • People forget this video is about the original Challanger tank... not the Challanger 2, which is a far improved version on an already excellent design.

    Got a little info from Wiki for you..

  • Challenger 2 is an extensive redesign from Challenger 1, the MBT from which it was developed. It uses the basic hull and automotive parts of its predecessor but all else is new. Fewer than 5% of components are interchangeable. Challenger 2 has now replaced Challenger 1 in service with the British Army and is also used by the Royal Army of Oman.

  • It has seen operational service in Bosnia, Kosovo and Iraq (2003present). During the 2003 invasion of Iraq the Challenger 2 tanks operating in the Gulf suffered no total losses to enemy fire. In one engagement a Challenger took 14 hits from rocket propelled grenades and from one MILAN anti tank missile.[3]

    Phew.. done..

  • Centurion

    Chieftain

    Challenger

    Each the best in its era in practical rather than 'on paper' terms. The history of post war British tanks is unequaled on the battlefield.

    Their engines have been a little underpowered compared to the tanks of other nations but the weight of armour was partly responsible for this.

    The Condor engine in the Challenger is proved to be a robust engine with good power to weight ratio, and is easily serviced in the field.

  • challenger is to slow in battle!

  • Challenger 2 is the most battle-tested tank in existence. Has undergone the most strenuous reliability tests of any tank in the world. Has taken more hits, "in theatre", than any other machine, and come out relatively unscathed. Leopard has never been tested in war, ever.

  • @transonicbuoy1

    The Leopard 1 and 2 has been tested in battle in ex-yugoslavia and Afghanistan ...

  • ? no it hasnt

  • @RogueBrit

    - it has! During an engagement in 1994 with Serb positions seven Danish Leopard 1s killed arcording to some sources 150 Serb troops + 3 T55. Today the Danes and Canadians use the Leopard 2 in the fight against the Taliban in Afghanistan - the Danes in Helmand with the British.

    - Like many other modern MBTs the leopard has yet to prove itself as a great tank killer .... and hopefully it never will

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  • i never believed in British tanks. specially since they still use rifled cannons which are obsolete. prefer the Leopard 2 or T-80U. tbh smooth ride is not important in battle ill take faster reload and better firepower with appropriate armor.

  • @immortal4942 Rifled barrels offer better firepower you twat. Also, the challenger isn't slow - it has the fastest off road speed and a good enough on road speed, there is an engine upgrade i believe but tax payers money is better spent on things like making fat kids do star jumps on the NHS

  • @theROFLpanda rifled barrels can fire HESH rounds, smoothbore barrels are slightly better at firing APFSDS rounds. It depends what you're trying to defeat, and each system suits its tank well.

  • The Leopard 2A6 is the best. Challenger series is slow. Leclerc isnt bad. The M1 is a massive gas guzzler (otherwise its good).

    The Merkava has the right idea for Chassis design. But has insufficient armour, mobility and main gun to compete with other modern MBTs.

  • the challenger 2 is The best tank in the world !

  • This video is about a decade old. Yes of course the Leo 2A6 is better than the Challenger 1.

  • Wow, America's History lessons come from Hollywood! :D

  • a rifled barrel is obsolete. cause of that the challenger cant fire all kinds of ammo.

    no question,its a really good tank but not the best.

  • @tk175 the L30 rifled barrel can fire HESH, the M1A1 Main gun cannot. the M1A1 main gun can fire HEAT, the challenger could but doesn't have it.

    The L30 is by no means obsolete.

  • if the challenger is the best tank,why nobody want´s it? the most countries are using M1 and/or leopard.

  • because the M1A1 and the Leopard are more advertized where the Challenger 2 isn't, plus price as twoshay2 has already mentioned..

  • tk75, because the leo 2 is a lot cheaper than the challenger 2

  • British propaganda with an american narrator? I think not you idiot.

  • i think the abrams is more intimidating than challenger... idk what it is.. seeing it in battle when i was in iraq and afganistan... both cool tanks ... go US MARINES !!!!!!

  • hello how many abrams have been compleatly destroyed in iraq and afganistan 80 and how many british challengers 0

  • There are considerably more American tanks stationed in Iraq, so it makes sense that they'd have more losses. At any rate, I'd like to see where you got your information on 80 Abrams' completely destroyed. To my knowledge the vast majority of losses have been mission kills only.

  • I'd also like to see where it says that, because while I don't remember the figure exactly, I think it's less than 20.

    However, Challenger 2, Leopard 2 and Merkava are all better than M1.#

    If I ran my own country though, we'd operate Leopard 2; cheaper, more commonality with other forces and the Swiss use it. If the Swiss use it, that's a BIG vote of confidence.

  • If you say that your tank proved itself in second Iraq war against tanks, then you're in denial. Iraqis had 13 years of sanctions, that means their tanks were falling apart just from moving. I bet "battle situation" for you is shooting at a big cardboard cutout of a tank. That being said, Challenger 2 is an excellent tank.

  • iraqis barely fought the war. shooting at fleeing people does not make you so heroic.

  • I agree with you, but where did I mention heroism?

  • The point was that the m1s and challangers were shooting at people that did not want to fight war. look at the ones that did, *vietnam* and usa got their ass screwed.

  • British fuckin CRAP

  • This is challenger 1 which is tested in War. Challenger 2 is far better and again tested in war. Now canadians say leo 2 is better? But is it tested by war? LOL. Challenger 2 is THE best tank.

  • list for 2010;

    -t95/black eagle with massive 150mm/aps/era..

    -leo2 with active protection and good armor

    -t90 with medium armor and era, along with aps arena, shtora anti missile countermeasures, smoke screen and fires missiles.

    -leclerc for aps and countermeasures.

    -m1a2 for electronics , but no countermeasures whatsoever (except for smoke).

    -cr2 running with naked armor, unsafe ammo storage, slow reloading. no countermeasures.

    there you go. a little of info for you to consider.

    -

  • you no fuck all ch2 is the safest tank in the world none as been destroyed by enermy and onlt 1 ever took out of action and around 140 abrams have been took out of action

  • @psq007slow reloading? 8 targets hit in 58 seconds is not slow. Longest range kill of any tank, fastest off road speed, hunter killer targeting system, hydrogas suspension, HESH rounds. i know id rather be in a Challey with its world beating Dorchester armour. What we people on youtube think means nothing. Most experts go with the C2 and say the only reason it is not rated 1st is because of the amount made. Why compare tanks that will never face each other any way?

  • @RYboy1979 hit the nail on the head with that comment mate, nice one.

  • @RYboy1979 Egypt has a fair few M1A1s, and I believe they're pushing for an upgrade to A2 to counter the Merkava IV You never know, one day they may go pants on head insane with religious fervour.

    Plus with Iranian meddling with Iraqi politics, we could see a round 3, except the Iraqis are buying 300 or so Abrams.

    Apart from that you're spot on. Shame the government bought 400, and we're only going to be using 220 or so after the SDSR. At least they're going ahead with the upgrade programme.

  • in the first golf war no challengers was destroyed and challenger blew up 400 iraq tanks Type 69 and Type 79

  • that is to remember that iraqis were fleeing and 3/4 of their army practically did not fight from the fear of defeat.

  • cr2 does not have better fate.

  • A yank talking sense, never thought I'd see the day. Anyway, Challenger 2 is a lot better.

  • This is the old British Tank. It's Challenger 2 now.

  • Do you people even know what ERA is? It stands for Exlosive Reactive Armour, it isn't inside the T-90 at all. It was first used on T-72s, Russians tend to use add-on squares of it, some-times on top of ballistic matting, the add-on armour kit for the T-72 an T-80 weighs 10t. The ERA on the T-90 is the same as used on the M-60, externally added aplique armour panels. One problem, they're useless against kenetic energy penatrators, making the T-90 the lessor protected.

    Regards,

    Crimson

  • and not some gay pitch black video of a guy shoving explosive charges down the barrel. we went through this . Its not problem with me being in denial, which im not. The problem is with you pretending that it is possible, when it is not. I can think that I can fly all day but that will not happen. same thing,. you MAKE YOURSELF THINK that 3/12secs is possible, when even the vid you showd me proved you wrong. I proved you t90 can go 3/13 secs, so no doubts.

    show me a legit source of 3/12 secs.

  • The best? LEO2 !!! what else

  • M1 Abrams have been forced out of service for extended periods of time during the first gulf war for example, due to RPG fire.. And anyway claiming the M1 Abrams has excellent armour is just a complement to the British designers who made it..

  • with era, that proven to be no less effective than composite armor.

    Even leclerc's APS is not as superior as russian . They have been in countermeasure business for 30 years.

    m1 and cr2 have shit. its like you walk out naked on the battlefield. No guided missiles or protection besides composite whatsoever.

    era can be replaced right on battlefield- when composite takes 1 hit and its down.

    HESH is shit, it was designed to blast out walls, like those on FW show, not to destroy tanks.

  • You also forget the fact APS are useless against any thing other than RPGs and old guided missiles. If a Javelin hit T-90 there would be nothing the vehicle could to survive the hit, like every other tank......

  • Why the hell do you think tanks need guided missiles. Just because T-90 has one doesn't mean it's a necessity for a tank. Abrams would not need one, because first off it's not out there fighting against tanks, and it doesn't fight alone, meaning soldiers with Javelins, Bradleys with TOW, not to mention the multitude of aircraft we have to destroy tanks.

    And if it WAS alone,

    M1A2 has a missile countermeasure device, blocks wire, radio, infrared, and thermally guided ATGM. And some do have ERA.

  • m1 has counterneasures? like what/? gay gas spraying out, thats about it.

    blocking infrared? havent seen any jammers on that naked armor of m1, so prove it. There are no jammers on the m1 and you say blocking thermally guided rockets? I do not think so.

    Check out t90. has all of jammers equipped, , APS and ERA,missiles and gas cover . by the time t90 gets destroyed, m1 gets destroyed 8 times.

    you can just have couple of ERA in tank, replace and good to go. m1 is useless has to go vba

  • Well thanks for proving your complete lack of knowledge on the subject. It's obvious you're just being pro-Russia and anti-American without even knowing shit about the tanks. "gay gas" ...smoke screen? somehow that's gay on Abrams but not every other tank? lmao

    Maybe you should take another look. The MCD is on M1A2 SEP,it's box shaped and where the commander's independent thermal viewer was on the regular M1A2. And yes it does jam ATGM of all types, wire / radio / infrared / thermal guided.

  • "And yes it does jam ATGM of all types, wire / radio / infrared / thermal guided. "

    never seen or heard m1 could do anything besides smoke screen. Prove it.

    Do I feel stupid right now? I dont know. Waiting your proof.

    You have a reason why m1s are lying all over iraq from very 1st gen hits of prgs and hommade ieds?

    proof:

    war is hell: pictures of m1

  • I don't really feel the need to prove it to you, but I supposed I will. I'll leave info on your page.

    M1 has never been destroyed by an RPG, lol.

    IED, of course it's homemade that's why it's called "improvised" explosive device, they're usually never the same..the big artillery shaped charge shells of course they will fuck a tank up, no tank can withstand the big ones. Some can throw 62 ton tank 20 feet in air. I'd like to see your precious T-90 drive over an anti-tank mine or massive IED.

  • HESH was designed to kill an armoured vehicles crew...Even if HESH does not kill the crew it will KO the vehicle, any vehicle......Composite armour can take multiple hits, only ERA can take one....

  • era takes one, but can be replaced in 2 minutes, having spares in the tank, when composite of m1 or cr2 gets melted from rpgs 7, or 29, or recoilless, it takes 2 months to replace it in the factory.

    and dont forget t90 has composite underneath era too.

  • Yes ERA can be replaced, have fun replacing it in the middle of a battlefield taking fire. Also T-90s "composite" armour is just layers of rubber and alluminum.......Do you honestly think it will offer more protection than armour made from ceramics,kevlar,tungsten,titan­ium,steel,silica carbide etc? Also if this armour is hit at least it could be replaced..A T-90 would be completely destroyed with out its ERA..Not forgetting Chobham and Dorchester can take multiple hits with little to no damage

  • aluminum? where did you get that? more of CLASSIFIED COMPOSITE STEEL and era i believe?

    And era is a part of whole tank. You cannot say take off the era. how about take off m1's composite armor ?

    and yes you can change era in split second, stick one on and you are done.

    you keep talking about chobam and such, but those are just fancy names to scare the enemy. Not BSin, m1s have been fucked in ass in iraq by 1960s rpg.

    and cr2 cant reload 3/12secs. stop smoking.

  • Everything you say is wrong and you get proven wrong all the time. Do a simple google search on T-90 and you'll find some are made with just steel armour(with ERA) and others built with rubber and alluminium in layers(with ERA). Also how do you replace ERA built into the tank? Thats right you have to do it from the inside.just like with Chobham or Dorchester. Also Abrams uses Chobham, CR2 uses Dorchester .CR2 has never been destroyed by enemy fire. CR2 can fire 3 in 12 secs, your just in denial.

  • wow that pos statement just made me laugh. I believe you do not watch any documentary at all. era is placed outside in the slots and can be replaced anytime.

    cr2 and m1 will just stand there like a rock waiting for backup to pull it back to factory for 2 month re haul. Show me where it says t90 is made of aluminum armor. that is pure BS. era is sandwiched between 2 sheets of metal.

    Most pure piece of shit statement of all time. show me a LEGIT video of 3/12 secs cr2 reload,

  • ye it can it can shoot a 3 diffrent targets in 12secs

  • cant prove it - did not happen.

    hah takes 1 rpg 7 to take out m1, do you think cr2 is any better ? British tech is not as advanced as usa's , that is for sure, and when m1 gets blown into pieces by rpg7,

  • ye it is better tec from britian y do you think royal navy as the world most advanced ship the type 45 and y do u think usa used british company on most there tec includeing the f-22 and f-35 and thay even use british tec on the abram the armor is old challenger 1 armor

  • uk navy might be best, but tank building and aircrafts you have to give it to the americans. f22 and f35 might not be better than su 37 and 47, but as everyone knows f35's main part- the vtol engine- was almost direct copy of yak141.

    m1 tanks are better than the cr2s for sure- just look at tiny thing as rounds storage- m1 has safe door that protects the rounds, when the cr2 tanker sits right beside it.

    list goes:

    t95/black eagle

    leo2

    t90

    m1a2/leclerc

    cr2/leclerc

    merkava

    rest.

  • well y has ch2 never been destroyed by enermy but over 20 abrams have and and only 1 ch2 as ever been took out of action and abrams well over 130 since 2003 abram even uses old british ch1 armor the ch2 can fire at 3 diffrent targets in 12 sec ch2 as the most accurate gun it as the longest tank to tank kill and challenger as nbc nuclear, biological and chemical the abram is only just thinking of getting it and i would sey

    ch2

    leo 2a6

    t95

    m1a2

    t90

    leclerc

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  • @psq007 wat a prick you are mate. USA tech better than brit tech. The British designed the armour on the M1 (chobbam) but the Brits now use Chobbam mk2 or Dorchester as it is most commonly known. Anyway you Canadians buy your gear how about making your own before you argue. What a fucking idiot wiki warrior you are

  • psq007 is a retard who lives in denial. If i didn't look at his profile i would have thought he was an american....

  • you are a little cunt. again with the denail shit., yes i will deny until you give me real proof of them shooting 3 rounds in 12 seconds and not blowing up 3 chargers as fast as possible. thats right, you cannot prove it, when I can prove that t90 could fire 3 in 13 seconds.

  • You fail and live in denial.

  • right. You smoke chinse weed right? is that the reason you see 3ends/12 seconds? I can understand then.

  • no cos a challenger 2 was hit by 14 rpg-29 and 1 milan anti tank missiles and the was nout wrong with it and most tanks just of an rpg 29 would be destroyed conducted against T-80 and T-90 tanks it penetrated the tanks over their frontal arcs

  • besides cr2 has no active protection systems nor countermeasures of any kind. so does m1. that both sucks.

  • lol. now uk. does every country in the world has the best tanks ??

  • id feel safe in challenger 2, then Merkava, m1 and leapard 2 fight well but survivability is no were as good as challenger, in other words we rule you suck so get over it.

  • and cr2 is no better than m1. and there are over 500 m1's destroyed.

  • Dude, I dont know where you get your facts from, but Chally 2 is streets ahead of anything the russians have, and you are saying that C2 is no better than m1? Not 1 single C2 has ever been destroyed in combat, it has survived multiple hits from dedicated anti tank weapons, it has the most advanced composite armour, a FCS that is second to none, and is infact the fastest tank offroad, with stabilised hydrogas gun/suspension allowing for pinpoint accurate fire even at these speeds.

  • The russians only know one thing, make the tank big and put a large gun on it.

    The russians need to take a step out of the old soviet union days and they need to work on making more advancements in technology.

  • dude they build things cheap and to last and able to do the job, ALSO WITH MASSIVE NUMBERS

  • cr2 is still needs a human reloader.

    no active protection.

    no countermeasures.

    no jammers.

    no missiles.

    t90 has all of that.

    yes I can say that usa's tanks are better than british. but usa's tanks lack a lot of protective systems. only has fat naked armor, which is penetratable with very first gen rpgs.

    t90 can blast a rpg out of the sky before hitting the tank. ERA is also cheap and light, and no less effective.

  • why are the American tanks better

  • i C2 would eat a abrams and a t-90 alive!

  • it dont matter if the C2 has a human reloader , if a tank gets hit with a rocket , it might fuck up the "automatic" reloader2 and humans cant malfunction

  • fuck yeah that humans can malfunction.

    try lifting 50 10kg rounds in 20 minutes. (lets say battle condition and you need fast realoding)

    not every tanker is a bodybuilder.

  • if it was battle conditions you would have a good enough adrenoline rush to lift the rounds

  • lets say someone was weak? and for serious war like ww3 uk would not pick strong guys only, but all men are needed? then there are many weak dudes than strong ones.

  • they train the soldiers , and a t-90 cant even do 4 rounds in 15 secconds dumb ass ,

  • your a retardo.

    check vid t90 3 rounds in 12 seconds.

    i have seen a half pitch black video of cr2 reloading, yes 3 rounds in 12 seconds, but you know what? it is only the explosive charges !!! XDDD

    took then 10 seconds to put both explosive charges and du round. so that is 3 rounds in half a minute! so fuck thats slow.

  • i did search t90 3 rounds in 12 seconds and i cudent find a fucking video haha , stop lying to yourself m8 and this 3 rounds in half a minit that was probably some american who thinks the abram is the best . tbh m8 you dont know anything about challengers and dont even bother writin back trying to say i dont know anything because belive me i fuckin do

  • here you go stooge

    watch?v=UfVBYxVMLhU&feature=re­lated

    3 rounds in 13 seconds

    cr2 I have seen to reload a charge and a DU round in 10 secons each. fucken SLOOOW. and no abrams and cr2 is and will not be the best.

  • T-90S ARE SHIT! AND THE CHALENGER WOUD EAT A T-90 ALIVE and in training i took out a t-90 their fucking hopless , and so what if they av a proberlem it only teks 1 fucking armour piercing shell from a challenger to destroy a tank

  • training you took out a t90???!!

    XXDDDDD

    OMFG

    training in what? COD 4??? fuckin hilarious fagshit.

    1) t90s do have bad turret. thats a fact.

    2) t90s are only sold to india and 2-3 other countries. it never saw a war. get your facts right before you make yourself look like a uneducated black kid swearing.

    3) like i said, t90 can jam from missiles and block (blast out of the skies) rpgs, when m1 and cr2 can be taken out by very 1st gen rpgs.

    leo2 still stands first. and thats what we import.

  • What he means is a T-72 target. T-90 is just a T-72 with a better loader and some ERA built in on the top of your pathetic "composite" alluminum and plastic armour. On a training ground at 3km a CR2 training apfsds rips a hole through both sides of a T-72.

  • he said t90. do not try to help another uneducated englishman.

    alluminum and plastic? you mean composite steel and ceramic plates? when new gen Kontact 5 ERA is more effective and cheaper than m1's armor?

    t90 can stand at 5km, fire a missile, put a cr2 into bits, and the uk cant do shit, since their naked cr2 cant fire a missile or a round father than 4km..

    borat voice:

    "SMEEELL HEEES ANUS! VERYYY NICEE"

    lol

  • Yet you deny the FACT Challenger1 holds the world record of killing a tank @5.2km with an apfsds, and Challenger2 carries the next gen of this weapon that can fire rounds at a higher pressure and with superior muzzle velocity. Not forgetting the FACT CR2 can fire HESH out to 10+km.....Like i said you live in denial.

  • first of all hesh is shit- mainly used for walls in urban areas like bagdad

    then they CAN be used on tanks, but since it spreads the explosive in a big area and not concentrating at 1, low chances of taking out a tank with era.

    That 5.2 km was probably a very luck shot, since the sabot rounds are designed have very short range, up to 4km. cr2 would be no exeption.

    I live in denial- then you like in cloud of chinese weed smoke- how the fuck reloading 2 pieces faster than 1?fuckn bomboclot

  • No it was you being a retard and denying the facts on the video. Your in denial. Its a fact manually loading agun is faster than an auto loader, and that it is faster for a person to load 2piece ammo compared to 1 piecea mmo. Facts are facts. Deny it all you want.

  • 1- I do have to say you are a fucking asian? or your computer runs a pentium1 processor?? if not then you must be smoking chinese contaminated weed. FUCKKKK!!!

    I want to come over there and take a knife, slice your eyelid open!

    for the last fucking time, he reolads in 3 seconds , shoving a red charge in only! denying what? fucking semi pitch black video , but the red charge was clearly visible. how the FUCK come the end of the vid takes 10 secs to reload BOTH DU and charge? cuz its SLOW

  • facts on the video are fucking 10 seconds per reload! did i tell you that you are asian>? facts are facts, yes I know, that t90 can shoot out 3 times faster than a cr2 can reload 1.

  • Stop talking shit. You live in denial and Challenger2 is a better tank than a T90. 2piece ammo is easier&faster to load because its lighter you retard, do you even have a gram of fucking conmon sense? Also the shot @ 5.2km a lucky shot? LOL, no....CR2 regulary engages targets on a range @4km while moving 30mph with 99% accuracy, the only other tank that can do this is LecLerc, yes LecLerc is far superior to T90. If you think HESH wont do anything to T-90(or any tank) it proves your a retard.

  • I want to see who is actually talking shit here. Yes I do deny that cr2 is better than t90 . With absolutely no protection other than main naked armor, rpgs from 1st gens will take it out like it did with 500 m1's. fuck yeah that is a lucky shot. only other tank can do that is Leclerc? Russian missiles go 5km+ with exact accuracy. wolfram is no less than DU.

    Leclerc has at least APS, which USA and UK is dreaming of, so it stands higher than cr2 already. T90 has jammers and countermeasures

  • If a RPG7 would destroy a CR2 like an Abrams, how come not one CR2 has been destroyed in Iraq??? When it has been hit with RPG7+VL,RPG29,MILAN,IED,EFP??? I'll tell you why....Its because it has the best armour on the planet. You must also be retard because HESH was designed to kill a tanks crew. If a HESH hit any tank any where on the front you can say bye to your optics and your main gun would be useless because the blast would warp the barrel, get a clue

  • and as far as i know 3 rounds in 15 secconds is pretty fast

  • proof please?

    t90 would go 3rnds in 12 and 4 in 15 secs.

  • My first comment is I miss Range 9. Second one is, I would sit in a CR2 at 1500m and happily let an M1 fire at me....would an M1 crew say the same for a Challenger 2...

  • A tank is a tank, you might not know this but there is alot of simularities between the M1, Leopard 2, and the challenger 2.

  • wrong, 500 abrams were not destroyed stop making shit up. Only a little over 400 challengers were built.

  • check vid: war is hell - lots of pictures of destroyed m1

    thers abot 120 tanks in that vid. all destroyed. imagne the real # outside of the vid.

  • Be specific there was alot of war is hell, give me the url. I dont know how many have been lost but not over 100 i know that.

  • around 500 is close estimation.

    it might be higher.

    watch?v=CUvoaD6Vnkg

    around 120 tanks in that video. enjoy.

  • Hm.... alot of them looked like the same pictures and alot of them only looked damaged. Thats not the point its about the crew that lives and not many crew members have died. Any destroyed abrams is shiped back to America and is fixed and made into another tank.

  • those pictures look nothing the same. look at the background.

    does not look like that tank is going anywhere. its there to rot.

    just proved my point of over 500 tanks destroyed

  • Nope I want real evidence not pictures give me a article how many have been destroyed then I will believe you. Again like I said before its about if the crew lives, any country could make another tank out of a destroyed one and without the crew you cant drive another tank. You will have to replace more dead soldiers and put other lives in danger.

  • I dont need to prove you shit. the pictures itself is enough said.

    there is 120 tanks in that vid alone. what are the chances of 400 being the number of tanks not pictured? 100%

  • You know what who gives a shit, the Abrams is better and that is all there is to it.

  • -win what? you did not win anything.

    cr2 and m1 are fucking NAKED!

    no countermeasures, gas cover, dynamic armor, and gets stuck in mud like hell.

    longest tank to tank kills? idk. ww2? gulf you mean?

    that was not a fair tank battle , thats for sure. t72 is a light armour tank, firing very first gen rounds, where as m1 is a heavy armor tank. that is to consider iraqis were fleeing and surrendering, no order in their army

  • list for 2010-2012

    1.Black Eagle/t-95

    2. Leo2

    3.T90

    4. M1/leclerc

    5.cr2/leclerc

    list goes on for the rest of the world.

  • I think the old chieftain could still hold its own in a tank battle against most foreign tanks of enemy nations, though. The chieftain is my favorite british tank.

  • challanger- its a challange to stay alive in the tank.

  • considering it has the best armour in the world i doubt it.

    why dont you ask the brit soldiers who was saved by there tank in iraq when it was hit by 70 rpgs , im sure they would tell you

    but im sure mighty " canada " can create a better battle tank , or will it just import like it does with most other things

  • ye we just import the probably best tank in the FCKIN world! leo-2/

    70 rpgs? are you kidding me? takes 1 to disable the tank. abrams is better than cr2 , and there are around 500 of them lying across iraq , hit by ied and followed by rpgs, standing second on tank kills.

    list goes:

    leo2

    t90

    m1/leclerc

    cr2/leclerc

    and rest of the world.

  • type it in on google smartass , and also what tank has the longest tank to tank kill in history ? i win , you lose , stop talking shit

  • The fact is CR2 has never been destroyed by enemy fire, because it has the best armour in the world. Not forgetting it has a more advanced version of the world beating L11 that KO'd an enemy tank @ 5.2km. The facts are facts, deny them all you want, like the video of the CR2 loader clearly fring of 3 shots in 12 seconds......Also if Leo2 is supposed to be the best tank in the world how come a Danish Leo2A5DK was destroyed in Afghanistan killing the driver and injuring all of the crew???

  • OMG, you sure you dont need glasses? THE TANKER ONLY RELOADED THE CHARGES INTO THE FUCKING GUN!

    so why the fuck do you think that it took 10 seconds in the end of the video, where it clearly shows how they put in both charge and round?

    thats right, you cant accept the fact that cr2 is slow as hell in reloading. RED CHARGE thing is explosive. that is what only fired in those 12 seconds. you need some glasses for sure rag head killer.

    not sure about cr2, but watch "WAR IS HELL M1 PICTURES".

  • LOL Your in denial.

  • where did you get this remarkably wrong info from then put it here and look like a goose

  • this proves you dont no your facts, you better go school tommorrow i guess :)

  • I'd be hard-pressed to decide between the Challenger and the Abrams. They are both very good tanks with good guns and good armor. The Challenger has the Chieftain's excellent gun, but I have to pick the Abrams because I'm American.

  • your obviously a tanker you know your tanks. what regiment are you in?

  • As much as I want to be, I'm no tanker. I'm just a guy who's big into military equipment and military history. 'Blush'

  • well what makes YOU qualified to judge one tank over another then. and then you say . much as you want to be' like you cant be, whats stopping you failed medical? if you want to do it do it . or maybe spend ur life as a wanted to but never did?

  • CR2 has a completely different and better gun to Cheiftans old L11. If i were to pick one i'd take CR2, because it is a newer machine with better gun and armour. Not forgetting it has never been destroyed by enemy fire.

  • u r dum abrams has like a 5 or 6 inch gun

  • I think your dumb...120mm is roughly 4.7 inches......

  • umm show me where you got that info i think u just made that bullshit up

  • at long distance like that the round is traveling way to slow to knock out real armor of a real tank sure it knock out a fucking t-72 one of the worse tanks ever it has killed more of its own crew then enemies thats why your nation is the only western nation the uses a rifled barrel rounds that come out of that gun are too slow for real tank combat. and all these losses you are talking about is shit as well if your really look into it they are mostly because they fucking have to burn them

  • CR2 has a .55 rifled gun. Abrams uses a .44 smoothbore. As you can see from these simple facts CR2 has the more powerful gun.

  • Actually you're wrong the smoothbore is more powerful, the rifled is more accurate though.

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  • During Operation Desert shield in 1991 a Challenger 2 claimed a confirmed hit at 5200 meters, and with its computerized firing system it can engage a target the size of a football from 3 miles away, and is capable of engaging 3 seperate targets in 15 seconds, it easily out classes the Abrams, the only drawback is that it costs pretty much double what an Abrams does.

  • Furthermore in 2003 during the invasion of Iraq, a Challenger 2 was ambushed and recieved 14 hits from RPG's and 1 hit from a MILAN Anti-Tank weapon, which is one of the most effective Anti Tank missles, and it suffered no damage other than to its electronic sight which was repaired and the tank was back in service within 6 hours.

  • potosi2, The speed of the Abrams is only 5mph faster off road, secondly the challenger makes up for its lack of speed with its heavy armour, no challengers were destroyed in the Iraq War yet in the Gulf war of 1991 14 Abrams were forced out of service, and in the Iraq War over 80 have been forced out of service, the service record alone proofs which is the more capable tank.

  • i bet this tank can only run on one type of fuel as well

  • CR2 runs on diesel like every other vehicle in the British army. Abrams can't go 45 mph off-road though, its ancient suspension would destroy the tank and damage the crew. CR2 uses advanced hydro-gas suspension and it is the 2nd fastest tank off-road, the LecLerc is the fastest on any ground. It also uses advanced hydro-gas suspension.