Armortek

If Armortek are going to produce a challenger at some time, then why not the latest British digital MBT?

Thank God we can still build our own tanks, mind you it wont be the first time a German gun goes on a British tank. Centurion once apon a time was tested with an 88 I believe.
Buying British means you don't have to find space for the BV. Shame we didn't go all in with a plug in hybrid to pacify the greens

Phil Woollard wrote: ↑

Fri May 07, 2021 7:35 pm

If Armortek are going to produce a challenger at some time, then why not the latest British digital MBT?

One argument against it would be that if Armortek did so and then ever did a re-run, there would be more Armortek ones than British Army ones

I'm delighted to see an investment in our armour capability but perhaps calling it Challenger 3 shows a notable lack of imagination. Some other options which might have been considered if I was still in the Ministry of Defence:

- BOND (well, the gun is a smooth bore)

- FLAGON (old wine in new bottles)

- MERCKEL (new wine in old bottles)

and if we have to continue the tradition of naming British tanks with words beginning with the letter C, how about

- CHAV (defined as "a young person of a type characterized by brash and loutish behaviour" - seems to fit a new tank very well)

According the Defence Secretary, the Royal Army can't afford having either too many or too few MBTs. Understandable.

Stephen, I think you missed the most obvious C worded name for our latest digital AFV.

THE COMMODORE
And if their any good we'd only need 64 of them in each regiment.

There were only six in the Commodores!
Steve

Obviously the sleeve artist got the wrong end of the stick with the imagery

Adrian.

With only 148 being built & at least 26 being required at BATUS for the MedMan exercises, maybe Ca´canny would be a better name ?

I'm sticking with the Commadores.
With all that extra equipment on board theirll be a lot more Nighttrain-ing especially with the Machine-gun