AdvertisementThe Army's new 'world beating' Challenger 3 tank will outgun anything in Putin's ranks, the Defence Secretary has said as he announced an £800million upgrade for Britain's armoured forces. The lucrative contract will see the military equipped with 148 of the 'most lethal' main battle tanks in Europe, complete with faster-travelling ammunition and unrivalled tracking systems, Ben Wallace said yesterday. The fleet of fully-digitised Challenger 3 tanks will be produced at the Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land (RBSL) plant at Telford in Shropshire and will replace the existing Challenger 2 vehicles which have been in service since 1998. It comes as the Government announced in March a third of the army's 227 Challenger tanks would be scrapped as part of a major military overhaul. The army is expected to receive the first tanks by 2027 and the full fleet by 2030.

Source: Daily Mail May 08, 2021 07:55 UTC