Showpiece with excess weight: Ukraine uses Challenger tanks in a special way. The British “Challenger 2” are the first Western-designed main battle tanks to go into the Ukraine War.
Only Great Britain and Oman - the latter in very small numbers - use this model. Britain boasted at the start of last year that it had never lost a Challenger 2 tank in combat, even though it was most recently used in Iraq. The tank, which weighs more than 70 tons, is simply too heavy for our soil.