Challenger 2 MBT - Technical data and Discussion (Part 1)

If that’s the case then what is bolted onto the outside of that plate. And if it’s nothing why are the bolts there.

The shroud sits ontop of the solid 80mm metal plate but ends there. You can see that lip and the shadow it creates.
The sides are solid steel, and have no lip.

I’m not sure where the confusion is here, but for old times sake:
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The hull has it’s mounting points (the black square cubes) attached flush.
At the front of the tank, the mounting points connect to the thin shroud (yellow) which goes up and over.
The green front plate is 40mm and connects to the shroud via the bolt that passes through. (Blue) There is now a 40mm airgap from the shroud at the front.

In the middle sections, this airgap does not exist and an 80mm plate is installed (purple). It mounts the exact same way as the Airgap + half thickness plate, using the same bolts. The shoud runs along the top of the 80mm plate.

In both instances, there is an 80mm area taken up. In the front, it’s Shroud + half plate, in the middle it’s 80mm plate. Both mount using the same mounting points and bolts.

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This is where ASPRO-HMT is installed. I haven’t seen what it connects using but we know it must connect to solid metal and be flush, making this an 80mm steel plate.

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@Gunjob
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Red, is where the mounting bracket is. It juts out from the hull this much across the entire tanks side until the very last plate.

After the space the mount occupies, there is an airgap, as shown in this photo in Yellow. We can see the metal plate does not directly touch the mount. There’s a 40mm airgap.

After the airgap, the steel plate is connected (blue) and is 40mm.
The shroud (Yellow) extends from it’s 40mm tip to 80mm and runs along the top of the armor array. It is just on the top. Not occupying any space, just stopping debris falling in.
The middle plates, we’ve seen are thicker. 80mm (twice the thickness of the steel plate at the front) and now directly mounts to the mounting brackets instead of an airgap existing.
This way, the profile of the front plate is flush with the middle plates, but where the front has a 40mm airgap inside, the middle plates are a full 80mm plate and do not have this airgap.

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@John_Sneeeeeeeew its done
A Challenger 2 varians list with a little of humour

Very nice, thanks :D

I’m hoping and praying this made sense @Gunjob hahaha
Toss a dog a bone :P

The line of thinking is:

We can see the middle bit is thicker in every photo.
We know ASPRO-HMT has to be mounted on a solid plate, flush, so the outside of the panels are where the metal is on TES.
We can see the shroud doesn’t extend down the side of the middle plates, and the plates are solid.
The front has a 40mm air gap and then a 40mm plate, total space occupied is 80mm.
The middle therefore, is 80mm since the solid metal is facing outwards, and we can see there’s no airgap, occupying the full 80mm space.

So…middle 2 plates = 80mm thick
front plate = 40mm airgap and 40mm plate

Me coming into this thread and seeing different interations of paint spaghetti

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Welcome to sideplate talks, we have been here already at least once

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I hope they resolve the whole block being destroyed in one hit

I’m an analyst not a artist
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Now @DevilO6 my question is what are these boxes on the turret cheeks?
Also, what is the vehicle behind the challenger, at first glance I thought it was a warrior but I’m unsure.
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Not sure myself, some kind of a feild mod.
IDK man, im in the Cr2 mode rn, cant think of anything else

Probably for the training simulation
Leo 2 has a similar system


Basically it’s Lasertag for tanks
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It’s called Kadag(Kanonen-Abschuss-Darstellungs-Gerät for the German Bundeswehr

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very interesting, thanks for the info

@l2ulan will probably be able to tell you more about it, think tankograd also has some on it but I’m currently at Uni so not at home XD

But now one of 2 things are out of my head. The other one is ROMOR-A report, will do it in an hour probably

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