Challenger 2 MBT - Technical data and Discussion

Yep, do you want screenshots in addition?

GIve everything you have, the more the better

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Yes GIFs on GIPHY - Be Animated

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First off

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Need to see if there is any guess at what ammunition it was.

Well Huston we have a problem:
The ERA values were not in Haynes I remembered wrong.
But I got 2 sources for the usage of varma 1 on Chally 1


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ROMOR-A & VARMA 1 in Granby, ROMOR-A & VARMA 3 in TELIC, ROMOR-A replaced by a Chobham block in ~2007.

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And 2008, TES with Rafael ERA

Yes this is the β€œthin blocks” being replaced by β€œbig blocks” (with identical protection characteristics…)?

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The thing is, the TES is NERA/ERA sandwich. So you can take 2G NERA, slap ASPRO on it and you have TES

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Around an hour and im making the VARMA report. Just after that ROMOR-A

Nope, it uses its own passive armour system.

OH, so they gave up on the Dorchester blocks? Unexpected

We reverted back to 2G as you can see from any recent megaton appearances.

Yea, i think it is one of the 3 OES variants, the thing is, are they any different to 2G or no. At the current point it would be logical to assume it is, but at the same time its UK MoD so they are probably the same

Gentlemen, I present the Royal Electrical & Mechanical Engineers.


Jane’s AFV Retrofit Systems 1993-94, 6th Edition, 1993

Whole book is here if you want it.

Source denied, Jane is a auto denny

I’ve found them to be good for approximations, bad for specifics.

Well, gaijin deemed the made some mistakes so they are 100% unrealiable