Which is ironic as the Challenger 3 uses a completely different mantlet to the Challenger 2… it never needed to be changed
Still no update on tea machine???
I imagine that, if it doesn’t have one by standard, crews would actively retrofit them into the vehicles for the sheer utility of it.
naturally
Beat me to it
I guessing you saw the post on the snail mine discord lol?
Yes
Theres a more zoomed in photo, it’s our first good photo of the new armour
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The mantlet/breach looks massive, looks wider than the turret cheeks.
its around the same size as the Chally 2, but it looks a lot more armoured
Gaijin-
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Structural steel XD
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Surely gaijin can’t be that bad… surely??
Looks really good. I find the CR3(TD) in game just looks, naked.
But looks a lot better with its proper armour
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Agreed, its starting to look quite a lot different to the Challenger 2 as well
Better.ERA with 5mm vs KE and 350 vs CE,in 2025.
You mean 7mm of CE and KE. Yeah.
(I’ve also recently rediscovered the meme generator and I’m going wild with memes)
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Is it even known what the armour panels are? ERA or NERA?
All we know is they are newly designed external armour arrays called “EPSOM”, with the new internal armour named “FARNHAM”
RBSL have two publicly visible patents (not active) regarding armour, with one being an ERA panel patent.
Therefore its not unreasonable to assume it is a form of ERA, it visually looks like ERA. However, many people claim it is composite addons which are just modular in design.
RBSL has confirmed the Challenger 3 is going to be at DSEI very soon, hopefully we get some more information then.
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