Challenger 1 MBT - Technical Data and Discussions

[da12thmonkey]

Hydraulic fluid/oil is the most likely thing. CR2 got a fully electric turret and gun drive system because the old system was leaky at the best of times, and ran a risk of rupturing if the turret was hit - bad news for the crew.

Using asbestos sheets to insulate and fire-proof the hot gun/breach from an oil rupture sounds more reasonable to me. It’s the main purpose for the asbestos linings that are still in our AFVs and helicopters - protecting stuff you don’t want to get hot but have no choice but to put it near something that does get hot.
I am not aware of it being regarded as something known for its high degree of ballistic protection, compared to alternatives like aramid or kevlar fibres, or hard composite sheets.

[warhead_beast]

We can see some sort of reddish liner here

And here we do see it too just in bad resolution

[Morvran]

The kettle?

[ueberman]

mine broke just recently :(

[ueberman]

anyone knows where i can buy a Challenger 1 for the kettle? lol

[SwingfireOP]

Go nick the one out of bovingtons, it’s out in the open and unprotected so they’re practically asking for you to take it :

Also, gaijin, I promise never to moan about anything again if we can get a ch1 dressed up like that in game.

[Pegasus7217]

It’s the right time to leak classified deer documents

[Morvran]

So what you are saying, is that the CR1 is currently missing 6DP (Deer power) and a bug report needs to be submitted?

[warhead_beast]

@Gunjob since the Chally 2 got it’s proper armoured charge bins want to slap the developers with the ones for the 1 mk.3 and DS?
https://community.gaijin.net/issues/p/warthunder/i/scFlBnUnYw7i

[Hartsy1]

EuropaMilitaria29-ChallengerSquadron.pdf

some interesting photos here :)

[WNxDavid990]

Seen someone commenting that the Chally DS is suffering from mobility issues. Anyone else experiencing this? Don’t remember there being anything about changes to the mobility for Chally 1.

[Godvana]

Asbestos IS fire resistant and is a good insulator for heat and sound, but useless as ballistic protection.

[Firestarter]

the amount of times i’ve been trolled by the turret despite it supposedly being a strongpoint is getting kinda hilarious now.

oh, and inert sabot now explodes. bravo gaijin, literally may as well remove britain from top tier

https://streamable.com/hil890

Skip to 0:17

[warhead_beast]

Yeah that has been a thing for a while now, apperantly Gajin cant be bothered to finally fix it

[warhead_beast]

Let’s look at what secrets this holds

[Hartsy1]

Hopefully something useful somewhere

[Gunjob]

Wait why don’t we have those wild smoke launchers?

[warhead_beast]

might be for combat simulation systems

[warhead_beast]

Best I found till now is that they did research on spall liners.

And this nice caricature

[Tea_And_Country]

Can someone tell me when they buffed the chally 1 mantlet? I remember it having a massive gap in the composite either side of the market so when did this change? Or am I going insane and the line between the 2 challys is blurring.