Challenger 3 MBT - Technical Data and Discussion

The only thing that is confirmed is fans.

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and radiators

are they?

yep

good spot. Might be new then. The old fans had very pronounced mounts


:shrug: You probably have better idea about this sort of thing than I lmao

i remember seeing only fans.

perspective makes it hard to tell, but they can be the old one. You can not see the slope while looking perpendicularly from that distance

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Yep, it isn’t confirmed. I just added it because it has been mentioned quite often.

Once again, this isn’t a 100% credible source, but Military Leak’s article on the Challenger 3 from Army Expo 2024 (published yesterday) states it has improved fuel injection. The rest of the article checks out pretty well, so I’m hopeful its true.

But tbh, the part that the belt is set over looks differently
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Much smaller
That whole part looks differently
And here is Cr1
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The new one are much smaller

Just me saying, but reduction in diameter of pulley, and bigger metal circle udner it
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might suggest increase in RPM of fans

The actual intake portion looks much smaller, with a bigger axle(?) imo. but eh, my eyes can’t be trusted atm lmao. broke my glasses the other day, so I’m sat here in my (prescription) sunglasses looking like someone with more money than sense lmao.

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I upscaled the engine image to hopefully make it a bit clearer

Here are some new pictures of challenger 3 prototype !!

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Isn’t Common Rail Injection pretty much the main improvement in the CV12-9A?

I know not everyone is convinced, but personally i think the Challenger 3 is an amazing looking tank

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thats what we wanted by in the day when it was CV12-8A etc…

something interesting…emmmm
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what do you mean?

Are these holes for installing new external armor? @DevilO6 @Fireball_2020

Most likely. We do not know, but they do match.