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Undated photograph from the Tank Museum, Bovington, UK.But the headline number misses nuances in the composition of the Russian tank fleet. By most metrics the Challenger remains the most powerful armored vehicle currently fielded by either side in the Russo-Ukraine War.īritish-manufactured Chieftain tank modified for use by the Royal Jordanian Army. Crew training was completed in England in May and, according to AFU statements the tanks will be deployed to combat units, although, to date Kyiv has not acknowledged committing its Challengers to actual combat during it’s summer offensive. In recent months the UK has donated 28 of its top-line Challenger 2 tanks to the AFU as a government-to-government transfer. The initiative handed around a hundred obsolete, but still functional British army armored personnel carriers from the Falklands War-era, including venerable Spartan and Bulldog vehicles to the AFU. The highest-profile privately-financed delivery of armored vehicles to Ukraine was completed in May 2023, following a collection of the equivalent of $6.37 million by a social activist group led by high-profile Ukrainian actor and television presenter Serhiy Pritula. Aman generally – but not always – has voted in support of Ukraine in UN resolutions on the war. According to open sources, the Jordanian army has mothballed 300 tanks from its Chieftain fleet that, theoretically, could become a source of tanks for the AFU. The Jordanian version of the Chieftain was fitted with a more reliable Perkin Engines power plant, which the British military later used in the follow-on Challenger tank. The Chieftain’s engine compartment was open on the video where a mechanic speaking English with a southern accent can be heard. The Bochkala video showed an early-model Chieftain which lacked the Stillbrew upgrade and misidentifies the vehicle as a Challenger 1. I prayed never to get sent to a tank regiment.” More than 30 years after working on Chieftains one retired mechanic recalled in comment to Kyiv Post: “I remember that tankie VMs (vehicle mechanics) were invariably covered in oil, and forever cursing the Chieftain. A joke common among British operators of the day was that the Chieftain tank was the world’s best fighting vehicle provided it broke down exactly where it was needed on the battlefield.
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