UK upgrades Challenger 2 tanks

According to the "Military Parity", with a link to Defense News, UK launches CR2 LEP (Challenger 2 Life Extension Program), which provides for the modernization of the main combat tanks Challenger 2 to extend their life.

Upgraded vehicles will begin to enter into service with the British armored forces at the end of this decade. I will use them at least until 2035. It is noted that tanks may have new infrared surveillance devices. The tanks were planning to install new 120-mm smooth-bore guns Rh-120 produced by Rheinmetalla (Germany) with a barrel length 55 caliber. However, it has now become known that the machines will retain British-made 120-mm rifled guns.

The reform of the ground forces of Great Britain provides that in each "heavy" brigade there will be one armored regiment, which will include two squadrons of 18 tanks each. In total, the 227 tanks of the Challenger 2 will remain in service, which is 40% less than the current number. The exact scope of the program for the modernization of tanks will be determined by the results of the analysis; however, according to experts, the main goal is not to increase the combat capabilities, but to extend the service life of the vehicles.

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[svp67]

The tanks planned to install new 120-mm smoothbore guns Rh-120 manufactured by Rheinmetalla (Germany) with a barrel length of 55 calibers.

I almost choked on tea in surprise, but no, shaving is shaving ...

However, it has now become known that the machines will retain British-made 120 mm rifled guns.

and if you also add that it is the ONLY of TP - cap-loading ... traditions in one word ...

In total, 227 Challenger 2 tanks will remain in service, which is 40% less than the current amount.

well, two and a half hundred can be "shamanized" ...

The exact scope of the tank modernization program will be determined by the analysis, however, according to experts, the main goal is not to increase combat capabilities, but to extend the life of the vehicles.

Well then, the title of the article is not correct ... it should be called
"UK REPAIRS Challenger 2 tanks"

[sscha]

Modernization .... Reform ... Big words ...
They decided to save money when they are already in short supply? So say it.

[crazyrom]

What other "Great Britain"? It has not been great for 100 years. Britashka, small britain, well, at worst, England (the rest are vassals).

[Sulfuric acid]

the main goal is not to increase combat capabilities, but to extend the life of the vehicles

That is, to create a fundamentally new tank like our Armata, the Britons can no longer afford? :) Nice thing :)

[basalt32]

Armata fundamentally new or created?

[Sulfuric acid]

Quote: bazalt32

Armata fundamentally new or created?

Both. Yesterday there was news that the armored platform successfully passed state tests

[sscha]

I realized what I wrote, bazalt32?
In the context of your question then it should read like this:
1. Armata - a fundamentally new, or further development of the concepts of T-72 - T-90? (Although everything new appears on the basis of experience gained ...)
or:
2. Armata-created, or exists on paper?

[Sulfuric acid]

Here the main thing is to do a v.bros, few think about the rest :)

1. There is an opinion that all modern tanks are a deep modernization of the Reno FT-17 tank :)

But seriously, judging by the open information (uninhabited tower, armored capsule, etc.), Armata is still a fundamentally new machine, albeit based on the technical solutions of the T-90AM / T-95 / Black Eagle.

2. Already created.http: //topwar.ru/52343-uspeshnye-gosispytaniya-armaty.html

[sscha]

So I’m in the know - I live in the Urals! And I visited the Prospector. In general, my tank (which I studied) is the t-62. I understand that the old, but simple Horror! At its base (and there are many more at long-term storage sites) Terminators do! (Joke!)

[svp67]

Quote: sscha

They decided to save money when they are already in short supply? So say it.

Not without this ... England is the "mistress of the seas", first of all money there ...

Quote: Sulfuric acid

That is, to create a fundamentally new tank like our Armata, the Britons can no longer afford? :)

Who said that? Just to defend the metropolis, they will have “performed ... 2” enough. And what they are creating and where ... we will find out, but a little later. It is quite possible that they will send the saved money to R&D ...

[Kars]

Quote: svp67

oh she is the ONLY of TP - cap loading ... tradition in one word ..

don’t say, but for now the safest way to store charges

Quote: svp67

I almost choked on tea in surprise, but no, shaving is shaving ...

Well, the topic was very slow for a long time, especially when we were counting on export prospects

[svp67]

Quote: Kars

don’t say, but for now the safest way to store charges

The question is VERY controversial ... You, as a connoisseur of shipbuilding, do not know that ... Cheaper, then YES, without any BUT ...

Quote: Kars

Well, the topic was very slow for a long time, especially when we were counting on export prospects

Well, what can I do, the shaves go their own way and let's say it, it is the most direct and not the most understandable, the last and scares away so many ...

[Kars]

Quote: svp67

You, as a connoisseur of shipbuilding, do not know this ... Cheaper, then YES, without any BUT

Is storing cartridges about individual armored containers filled with a fire extinguishing mixture the cheapest way?

Quote: svp67

and let's say it’s the most direct and not the most understandable,

I like a rifled cannon.

[propolsky]

They know how to count pounds; you can’t say anything ...

[Wolka]

the crisis in Ukraine caused a new explosion in the global arms race, but tank building is a rather costly pleasure and not every state, even such as Great Britain, can afford it, therefore phased modernization is the most rational solution ...

[portoc65]

ANCLIES completely abandoned the tanks .. their production was abandoned .. really, it seems like the promotion of an arms race is frightening the rise of Russia's power.

[Giant thought]

Arms modernization is an obvious fact of financial savings, and in Europe there is a crisis, so the British decided to save a little.

[MSA]

Quote: propolsky

They know how to count pounds; you can’t say anything ...

I would have to say, the freebie is slowly ending ...

[portoc65]

From the beginning, they turned out from the production of tanks, now they are busy .. It seems that the older brother from the White House pressed

[fktrcfylhn61]

Smoothbore guns have greater potential and are easier to manufacture. Therefore, the parameters can still be improved.

[Crazyzyear]

The main thing in the tank is not a mess ... and you can’t forget the fire extinguisher!

[Samurai3X]

It turns out not so calm in the Kingdom of Denmark
The campaign near England ends with the money, since they are going to saw their most combat-ready tank and reduce its number.

[Georgich]

The first production Challenger-2 tank was manufactured in July 1994. In December 1995 they entered service. A typical aiming-lesion cycle takes 8 seconds. The designers curtailed in the direction of the Soviet tank builders. For the first time, two external dumped fuel tanks were installed on the western tank, previously very criticized by various experts on Soviet tanks. Combat weight 62.5 tons. Heavy machine.

[Sergey Medvedev]

The exact scope of the tank modernization program will be determined by the analysis, however, according to experts, the main goal is not to increase combat capabilities, but to extend the life of the vehicles.

So we T-72 should not be sent for remelting. It is necessary to keep them in order. Armata seems to surpass all, but it will not fit on the railway platform. How to throw troops from edge to edge?

[Tatarus]

How beautifully the British called the reduction of the army "modernization".

[Georgich]

Quote: Sulfuric acid

1. There is an opinion that all modern tanks are a deep modernization of the Reno FT-17 tank :)

The concept platform of future blitzkriegs.

[Paradoxov]

Why do Britons need tanks?
There is nowhere to travel on your own island (swamps, rocks), but they still have to swim to the continent;)

[portoc65]

The Challenger has the best armor in the world .. If you put a dynamic defense on it, it will become impenetrable .. and it would be desirable to put an automatic machine in it .. they feed shells manually .. Anyway, our tanks are better .. Easier faster and more beautiful

[Artyom]

such enemies as: the best, the best, these are just words, until the tank was on the front line with an equal enemy, I would rush to write and pronounce them, well, except if you do not work in an advertising agency

[VOLOD]

is more reliable than abrams

[cerbuk6155]

Quote: Sergey Medvedev

The exact scope of the tank modernization program will be determined by the analysis, however, according to experts, the main goal is not to increase combat capabilities, but to extend the life of the vehicles.

So we T-72 should not be sent for remelting. It is necessary to keep them in order. Armata seems to surpass all, but it will not fit on the railway platform. How to throw troops from edge to edge?

It doesn’t fit in, we’ll see. But our tanks will withstand the bridge, and the Challenger pens on the bridge, in RUSSIA it if the bridges can withstand their units.

[PhilFilych]

Well, the fact that the Challenger tank is very good, I have no doubt. True, the experience of the Second World War showed that it was not the super-duper who won, very young, little, expensive, tiger, but 34-ok avalanches with Shermans. And the experience of modern wars shows that the winner is the one with crews, filling, planning, tactics and intelligence better. And the cars themselves are pushed into the background as be.