The 5 Main Battle Tanks with Highest Kill-to-Loss Ratios

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[allisokandsweet]

180 Challenger tanks were deployed during the Gulf War and proved their reliability in desert conditions. The Challengers advanced nearly 350 km in 97 hours, destroying a total of 300 Iraqi armoured vehicles (including one tank at a range of 5 km) for no loss.

[tasman]

I'm amazed you didn't put the Challenger 1 and 2 together like the history channel does, as they only have 3% commonality in parts and are separate. But the older Challenger 1 tank which has the longest direct kill destroyed 300 Iraqi tanks in the 1st Gulf war with no loss.

[davidswallow]

If challenger has been destroyed twice, the ratio suggests it has only ever destroyed 12 to 18 tanks for the ratio to work???? Surely it’s higher than that?

[tasman]

With the Centurion tank fun fact its first tank kill in the Korean war in 1950 was a captured Cromwell tank that the Chinese got from the Battle of Happy Valley from memory. Australia also used the Centurion in Vietnam to good affect but not agianst enemy armor. And also Jordan used it agianst Isreal in the 1967 war and to good affect agianst Syria, PLO in 1971 Black September war.

[petervincent]

if only one challenger tank has been lost, are we saying that the tank has only killed 9 tanks?

[barrythatcher]

The Australian's RAAC used Centurions in Vietnam War especially at the Battle of Coral.

[Bob]

This channel has another video regarding the longest tank kills. In it, they state that Challenger 1 killed over 300 Iraqi tanks. They suffered zero losses. That’s a 300:0 ratio……yet it isn’t even mentioned here 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

[migueld]

Dubious ratio for the M-60. During Yom Kippur War, the Israelis lost many M-60s during their counteroffensives of the first days on Sinai front.

[dirkscott]

How do you get a high kill/loss ratio. Answer: only use them against much weaker enemy.

[KirkDavis]

I was a cmbt Engr with 4th inf div, we Had M60A3s Combt Engr varient with a morter Pitard instead of a main gun..It lobbed 75lb morter shells, they were AWESOME they also had a crane on the turret and a back hoe..

[TurnipCruncher]

CR2 (and before it CR1) has a huge kill ratio - none destroyed by enemy fire

[Ares-jxep]

One of my beefs with this type of list is it really doesn't show anything meaningful. To get credited with a "kill" the tank has to kill another tank, but the "loss" is for any reason.

Using the Cent and Abrams as examples in middle east operations. They were competing for kills with air support, air interdiction, Mech infantry with very good anti-tank weaponry, and the best coordinated and accurate arty in the world. I'd be willing to bet the ratio's would have been much higher for those two if most of their potential targets weren't already dead before they ever saw them.

In the case of the Merkava, the vast majority of it's battlefield use hasn't involved enemy armor of any type. Kinda difficult to get a credited tank kill when there are no tanks to kill.


On the flip side.. it doesn't tell you anything about a tank's real effectiveness at it's job when it's getting blown to oblivion by combined arms before it ever see's any ground enemy. Let's be honest... when your enemy sucks at combined arms, has very poor leadership, substandard training at all levels, and your forces have air supremacy, they could have the best tanks in the world and would still have a negative k/l ratio.

[pompeytid]

Not sure how losing a Challenger to 'friendly fire' or the Ukrainian's mishandling their first Challengers are combat losses but hey. Still no lost Challengers Mk1 or 2 to enemy action in the British army.

[varonmullis]

Your success depends a great deal on your adversary. Pitting the best tanks against each other with well trained crews would yield significantly different results.

[Will_CH]

Challenger 1 and 2 have over 300 tank kills and only 3 lost in combat. That puts the kill to loss ratio at around 100:1

[molemarden]

Challenger as not lost one and holds the longest kill you can’t get better that .

[DarthPhallic_]

The m1 tank is a very, very stripped down version compared to the m1a1 and the m1a2.

[appalachia]

Centurion and M60 are really is the best working horse of all time.

[richowens]

A lot of friendly fire mentioned today. US anti tank missiles top notch. Friend or Foe communications nor so good

[mamurshed]

Centurion works since 50 until 90 was the best