The British Challenger 1 Main Battle Tank

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Uploaded by on May 16, 2008

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  • WOW, thay are finally fitting them with Thermal imaging, Abrams has 3rd genration now,. I was surprised to hear that, and no Digital interlinking systems.

  • @ltcurry lol this is the Challenger 1 and this video is about 25yrs old, its the tank we used prior to the current Challenger 2.

  • 1] There is no BEST tank in the world. The crew always makes the difference.

    2] Chobham armour was developed in the UK & fitted to ATDU Chllenger 1's but first service use was by M1 Abrams.

  • So if a vehicle has a greater level of survivability and superior firepower compared to other MBT's, its not the best? Chobham was used on the CR1, but not the M1, it used a composite armour called Burlington, both same principals but different ceramic/material mix.

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  • As soon as I heard "arguably the best tank".. I knew I wasn’t more that 3 comments away from someone nominating the Abram’s.. Welll done experts....

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  • now that , is a cool tank

  • Nice vid..Awesome tank

  • @geoffers158 No they had no option to pay for it because they aren't having it.

  • our british cusons did a good job on the challanger 1 n 2 i hate to be on the wrong side of its gun lol

  • To all those interested, the Chieftain mk 11 (the mbt we had before challenger 1) had (togs) the thermal imaging system & just as an aside I thought you might like to know, we also had a laser rangefinder in the 1970s on chieftain, prior to that, you had a Browning .50 'ranging' gun to bracket the target before firing the big 'un. 'Being an ex-chieftain crewman I know this for a FACT...!

  • @rocketshipstud2 i thought they were sold to UAE?

  • @Sid447 Also the Americans didn't want to pay for chobham 2 armor which is on the Challenger 2.

  • @killzoik no they are chally 1 NOT CHALLY 2 MASSIVE DIFERANCE

  • @TankNutDave to be fair the tank in 3:34 is a prototype and is missing the TOGS system.

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