Challenger MBTs / War Thunder

During the second half of the 20th century, the UK was one of the main players of the global arms industry. From 1971 onwards, the country sold several hundred Chieftain MBTs to Iran, and in 1974 the British secured a contract to supply Iran with even a more advanced combat vehicle.

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[angrydoggo]

Glad to hear that Bruce is feeling better!

[samhyman]

Me on my way to release classified documents so I can prove that my favorite tank is not accurate in a game.

[BeceCMB]

Challenger Tanks are why I started playing war thunder. The design is exceptional, saying as a German who sees leopards nearly every week. Now I have them all, but the British guys are not much loved by gaijin 😂😂

[TWM]

fun fact the challenger 2 we have in game is the chally 2 E the export variant, also it would be nice if gaijin stopped nerfing them before release, for example on the 2F it had additional frontal composite that protected against DM33 on the LFP, though it was removed before the update went live for some unknown reason, they phantom nerfed the ammo bins from 200mm to 50 then to 5mm, 3 stage ammo should not detonate when hit unless it hits a hesh round, if a charge is hit then it will burn in the ammo box safely, only HESH would detonate, an example of this was when a friendly challenger 2 destroyed another in Iraq, the charges and HESH in the dumps where completely salvageable. the ammo count is wrong, they carry 47 rounds IRL it even says it on the MOD website but gaijin cant get this right even lol, i don't want a realistic game, i just want one that's fair and balanced and where the UK isn't shafted every bloody update or gets a FIX like the STORMER which fucked it even more

[HJDore]

Challenger 2e (export) with its SAGEM CITV and 1500hp Europowerpack would be a nice addition to the British tech tree.

Couple of corrections however. Firstly whilst the MOD started looking for challenger’s replacement in ‘87 the British army had plans to run a mixed heavy armour fleet of challenger 2’s, challengers and even chieftains well into the 90’s and as such challenger 1 gun tanks weren’t sold off to Jordan until 2001, the mk3’s they received didn’t come with the additional armour packages either. Secondly the theatre entry standard (TES) specification was put together in 2008 replacing the Dorchester 2E armour packs and ERA with 2F standard armour packs and a RWS when it became apparent the British army’s challenger 2’s would be involved with fighting the insurgency war in Iraq, TES was later updated in the mid 2010’s to replace the 2F standard with 2H add on armour as well as the Saab barracuda thermal obscuration camouflage.

I also suspect this video was put together a while ago since the vehicle set to replace challenger 2 has been chosen as challenger 3.

[WhackingJam]

If the A-10 is just a gun with wings.. The Chally is a Teapot with tracks.

[theScottishKoala]

Correction: Cpt. Tim Purbrick's tank did indeed score a 4, 700m kill, but that record was beaten a mere day later by a Scots DG tank scoring a 5, 110m kill. (This is why you hear conflicting reports on the actual range of the kill, but in fact both claims are correct). I've chatted to both the gunner of the tank; Mike Smith, and the loader; Colin McKerrel, as well as the gunner of of the squadron commander's tank; Brian Strachan about this. The tank was D-squadron 11B.

Tim Purbrick's tank was part of the Queen's Royal Irish Hussars, there was always a rivalry between them and the SDG

[itz_chieftain]

I'm iranian and i should say that our tank commanders were satisfy from chieftain in Iran-Iraq war(gun power, precision)were tough and affected on iranian progress in battlefield, i play Britain and i love the chiftain and challengers. Thank u
DOOROD BAR TO(Hello to you bruce)from Iran ;)

[mxv]

As an Iranian it’s interesting knowing these things also shir or شیر means lion in Persian so that another fact

[pilot_xoan]

I had just realised they advanced the Challenguer 2 OES at the end of this video 2 years ago :()

[chiello]

Am i the only one who doesn't use the Dorchesterpack for the challenger 2 because it looks better?

Even without it, the fuel tanks in the sides could still bounce or even ate enemy projectiles

[bigboiz-saigon]

Welcome back, Bruce. Quick recovery you had. Not like me, i spent a month in the hospital.

[hunterhraje]

Jesus Kristus
Thank you gajin, i mean this seriously, you changed the gun firing sound, and i absolutly love it, in fact i love it so much, that i have to write this comment in hopes, that devs will see this and be proud of doing a good job with the sound, its like a chrismas gift for me, i wasnt really happy about how the 120mm guns sounded, but now its amazing
thank you :D

[Combatwombat-snng]

The challengers are fantastic IRL but they just don't fit war thunder meta unfortunately

[cyanoticspore]

I started playing again the other because I wanted to try to grind to the chally 2. After a while (I unlocked 1 whole tank) I was reminded of the pain of the grind and uninstalled. We'll see how long that lasts.

[CisterJr]

I am glad to hear that Brazilian Osório was remembered

[thesnazzycomet]

5:38 the challenger is the Frieza of war thunder

[__takkhal__]

well actually as a iranian i have to say we really had hard time with chieftains and the Shir1 (lion1) could really be better for us because of the geography of our country ...
but its sad we never get them 😢
but i played with em a lot in the game and i love em all they are the best 😍
also we love u bruce from iran
your sound is the only thing i love to hear every week 😂❤️

[DiNo_]

REEE Gaijin didnt talk about the challenger from the 1940s !!!

[paulsilva]

GOOD TO HEAR BRUCE.! God Bless you Sir. AND MERRY CHRISTMAS.!