Challenger 3 MBT - Technical Data and Discussion

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what is this?

armor or just air

Well, at this point we do not know. The armour should go there, as TOGS is not longer limiting it, but nothing certain.
The air here might be left here to act as a spaced armour for the chemical threats.
Hard to tell with nearly 0 info we have rn.
What we know is thet Farnham > Dorchester/Chobham, or it is supposed to be.

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like this?
if it is just air which means the ke will be very low?

There should be another thing between red and purple, but yea, either it is filled with armour or is left as air, the purple woudl not connect ro the mounting by itself, but something should be on it


simmilar to that
and leo 2
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(ignore the numbers in this one)
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so this one is not the inside mantlet?

Nah, there will be another plate on top of it, like that but replace the rotor with L55 block


But thats just my take, we need to se official things

the black box contains other plates?

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As i said, it should but if it will only RBSL knows

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?

This
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this (sloped lines means filled in some way)
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or this
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No way to tell what they will do

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What part of the armor do you think would be behind the black box?

you mant the orange part?

yes

Thats most likely
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There is some kind of a fabric there

You can see a plate on that thing
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green vs metalic, but if that metalic is
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Or another plate on top of it, we dont know

I think it might be air, perhaps the composite armour is not done, they did only just sign a contract for the armour.

they signed a contract for the addon armour

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The layout itself appears to be the same as CR2, as can be seen on the mantlet photo where the bottom panel has been removed:

Not entirely sure what sits between the front plate and the space behind but this photo on the CR2 seems to imply some sort of composite array, with space behind used up by electronics for TOGS, maybe with the removal of TOGS the composite array has been extended back?

Also as i showed before the roof currently slopes down behind the manlet so it seems to me the design is very complex