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How much of these Challengers does the british army still keep operating? I think there are not that much more as 50 tanks or so?!
ok maybe I’m wrong here but it looks like that turret is in an upper storey of the building , if you look bottom left of the hole in the wall you can see the roof of another building! , also it looks upright so the top of the turret’s popped aswell!1
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Yes!
The sneaky tank destroyed the upper part of the building by throwing the turret up and into the second floor.
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I really dont want to know what the rest of the tank looks like after the disassembly of the turret , there cannot be much left in one piece…
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I’ll go out on a limb here and say you’ve never humped one.
In other news…
About eight months ago I alluded to a project I was working on but keeping under wraps for the time. I believe it may have been my Army of Z thread or possibly this one, I don’t even remember any more.
At any rate, the motorcycle and sidecar were easy enough. The riders had to be converted from WWII era soldiers. Got the mortar from Live-Resin back when it was still possible to do so. The one holding a wine bottle now has a cell phone. Hoping to bring the whole thing to the Nationals next year, hence no pics for now.
Still waiting for one thing: (I guess it was back in April right after I finished the Tractor Dio, which as it turns out wasn’t finished after all…
If you have a cap like the circled one I could use it.
Is that a phased plasma rifle in the 40-watt range? 
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Rather looks like a Stupor anti-drone weapon …Maybe not that effective BTW…
H.P.
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More M-55S views
H.P.
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how come the sideskirts are so clean compare to the suspension? Could be an interesting weathering experiment.
weather the suspension with the skirts removed, then glue the clean skirts back on; easy enough. 
A little bit close to having the HIMARS finished. Use to think painting the bottom of tanks was a bore. Nope, not anymore. Not after doing gray primer, then black airbrush shading, then spraying green into all the unseen angles. ANY tank will be happily done. Easily three hours spraying just to get this far.
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They made well over 400, a couple were lost due to accidents and a few were converted to DTTs. They plan on upgrading nearly 150 Cr2s to Cr3s. The rest are meant to be getting retired or putting into war stock. Some will also be kept at BATUS.
So they could spare 10 or so to Ukraine… I would be very worried about the effectiveness of them and the crews not being trained properly on them and just not knowing the equipment…
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do you have more photos of the victoria?
In my opinion they need to be given Leopards. It’s the most prolific tank in Europe, ammunition and spares from any user can be supplied and repair facilities are already set up in multiple countries. Plus I think Germany have stocks which could be reconstituted to operational status, but don’t quote me on that 
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Contentious one this but I’d give them almost all our Chally 2s and do a deal with Rheinmetall to build the KF-51 Panther or Leo 2A7+ with the Panther turret under license in the UK. Just order 400 of them, first 100 or so built in Germany immediately so they can be on property by end 2024, rest in UK under license. Stop messing around with C3 updates that will end up costing almost what a Leo 2A7 costs now.
Give the Ukrainians 120 odd Chally 2s and all the spares and stuff. Let them bring the lads over, we’ll train them fully in five months or so, then ship them all to Ukraine and stand them up a new armoured division of three battalions of 40-odd.
If they can be quickly and easily regunned to fire the NATO 120mm smoothbore I’d do that for them as well.
I honestly think the KF51 Panther demonstrator would be a great stepping stone to whatever the German/French joint MBT programme will eventually churn out. Let them build it, we order it. Assemble it in UK if necessary but stop d*cking around spending billions on wasted programmes - if the likes of BAE Systems, GDUK etc want to continue winning MOD contracts they need to pull their finger out and learn how to deliver on time and within a reasonable margin of cost.
While we’re at it, bin off Warrior (send them all to Ukraine) and replace it with an IFV variant of Ajax and if they cannot deliver that IOC by a very short deadline then we buy a load of latest variant CV90s, no messing around.
Replace AS-90 with Archer and current M270B1 GMLRS plus as many more of those and some HIMARS as we can afford. Standardise on Boxer and Ajax for hulls and make everything else based on those moving forward.
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Regarding Leopards and Strykers and bears, oh my:
BLASPHEMY!!! Heretic !!!
Lol… Only kidding… Some valid points. I agree with Max though, give them surplus Leo 2s, the infra is already set up in Europe to maintain it faster and more effectively…
Forget Ajax …its dead in the water…someone just needs to grow a pair in Gov and make the call on that. We definitely need a new Inf capable AFV, so I agree you could chuck warrior over there …