There should be a -kettle- boiling vessel just behind you, Mr. Willey.

@Brad Johnson No, no: it simply must be hot!

@Brad Johnson No probs man the Challenger has a hot water boiler built in, so our crews get hot tea like it's a 60 ton vending machine.

@Brad Johnson It's the source of all our power. We won't fight a war unless there's tea involved.

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Thanks Ste, glad you enjoyed it.

The Tank Museum I didn’t really think about how Challenger came but now it might just be one of the most interesting stories for the development of a tank. Thank you definitely the most interesting Tank-chats yet keep up the great work 👍🏻👍🏻

Roger that, it was a great episode! I was an Abrams tanker (a1) after GW1. Always loved challenger 1 and 2. Thanks to the tank museum.

Nice

Great to hear you enjoyed it.

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I'd feel pretty secure going into action in one of those. Challengers are built tough.

Was it turned on? How was it? Need to know for research purposes.

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Thanks for the info and your service. Always good to have a personal view added.

Thanks for your service, Gus. The challenger 1 and its crews performed admirably during the 1st Gulf war - just showed what excellent training and courage can do.

As an MBT crewman (Chieftain & Challenger 1) in BAOR in the 80's/90's we had been told our life expectancy in combat against MBT's of 3rd shock Army was 6.5 minutes. I certainly believed that. I guess it's a good thing we didn't actually have to find out!

Assuming of course that the Chieftans have a functioning engine at the time.

Thanks Joe!

A better truck than Abrams by far. I have operated with both and the absolute pain with M1 is the constant fuel resupp problem. It's been said that it fights with one foot in a bucket and despite its excellent technology (much of which is British and German) this is a big weak point. Still there are lots of them and that's reassuring I guess.

@CAVKING19DELTA TEXAS wrong

@CAVKING19DELTA TEXAS it's good to have pride in ones armed forces, but it should be tempered with a bit of research. Realistically, the crown has to go to the Israelis for that title. I have a bias other than that objective fact so it would be unfair to squabble with you. We are on the same side, thats the main thing.

Matthew Dobbs Tank crew efficiency is a product of training and experience. In the late 20th century, the Israelis were definitely the most experienced. In the 21st century not so much. The US and UK armored force's experience in the Middle East has closed that gap. When considering training, a huge factor to consider is budget. The US has by far the largest training budget. The UK has a small professional military so the disparity in budget allocations is somewhat mitigated. A huge military budget should not be underestimated when considering training though.

@@jacquesstrapp3219 indeed good points. The old Russian saying 'quantity has a quality of its own' is quite true. Also the small professional part, very true. British armoured crews are pretty good, I have to admit.

Lovely comment Marek. Well put.

David Bigwood definitely worth a visit

What a lovely Comment! Have a hug! :-)

Homer14 lange :D

Hey Robbie Compare her to what you think it would be being crewman in the Leo 2.........

@@rpm1796 what a completely analog tank which was the leopard 2 in the 80s?

It's wrong to call the Challenger 2 'indestructible.' A Challenger 2 driver lost a foot to an RPG-29 round.

@@AethelwulfOfNordHymbraLand2333 a challenger, and M1A2 Abrams can run over a land mine, and have little to no damage.. A javelin probably can take one out. Abrams took a direct hit, and the shell didn’t do anything, I believe one was hit by a T-72, and it did nothing. The Only armor lost was 1 Bradley. This tank battle took place in Iraq.

Funny that you mention his enthusiasm. It did seem like he was more excited about this one than the others. It's not like he is bored in the others. It's more like he has more of an emotional investment in this one.

just a shame that on Lionheart we were kept in the woods for the first 9 days and our CR1s were tucked away....

Thanks Ritchie

Lucky you

Happy Birthday in advance

If you take the number on the web page "over 300 vehicles" and compare to www.globalfirepower.com/armor-tanks-total.asp I have no idea how accurate the numbers are. County number 54 of 137 listed have 300 tanks that is a shared number for Angola, Chile and Libya. If you estimate that 33% of the vehicles it not tanks they are equal with Italy at #63. In a combat situation the the tank museum likely have a huge disadvantage because I assume that the amount of live ammunition they have is likely zero. Even if the had crews and ammunition only a small amount of the tanke they have would be a serious threat to modern tanks so even Denmark with only 47 Leopard 2 A5 in service would certainly wing but poorer countries that might still operate only T-55 at similar number might be another have a more uncertain result. A thing to not is that the last 21 countries in the list have 0 tanks even relative large and better off then a lot of other like Mexico but a lot of poorer still operate quite old equipment is larger number then you might expect.

What happened Keith? I'm genuinely interested.

@@kurgan4656 - Er... that's still classified. Come back 30 years from now for the answer. ;-)

But Challengers are British too? I’m assuming it was a captured Challenger?

@@frypan3315 probably a Blue-on-Blue Incident

@@frypan3315 No challenger has ever been captured or lost to enemy action. It would have been a friendly fire incident.

Historically the UK & Germany being on opposing sides is an anomaly, apart from the 1914-18 & 1939-45 conflicts we've invariably been allies, with France & Spain being the usual opfor.

An alliance that worked well enough against Napolean...

I can remember german units fighting for UK for example in defending Gibraltar. Therefore this unit got famous and got a band. This unit later fought in autumn of 1914 in belgium against british units...

KGL ."Kings German Legion" a long standing unit of the British army in the 18/19th centuries. Hessian units were employed in the American war of independence. The sad history of the 2 world wars has skewed peoples views of Anglo-German relations.

BillyCaspersGhost Excellent post. History is often ignored.

Not to worry, glad you enjoyed!