The British Army’s new Challenger 3 main battle tank just began its first live-fire trials—the first new MBT for the United Kingdom in more than three decades. But there’s a brutal catch: the British Army will only field 148 Challenger 3 tanks by 2030, a fleet that’s barely a third of what NATO planners consider a “credible” armored division.
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