![]() ![]() Jack Watling, a research fellow in Land Warfare at RUSI, under the Army's Strike Brigade concept, the envisaged deployable force includes 112 Challenger 2s. With the concept of the new Strike Brigades for the British Army coming out of the 2015 Strategic Defence & Security Review, the focus is on enabling the Army to “cover a wider battlespace with economy of effort,” hence the focus on lighter armoured vehicles like the Ajax and a new 8x8 wheeled Mechanised Infantry Vehicle.Īccording to Dr. The nature of warfare has certainly changed calling for more mobile, rapid response and lighter vehicles not heavier, armoured tanks, which were a dominant feature of the Cold War. The UK comes 49th in Global Firepower's rankings with just 331 tanks. Now defence chiefs have announced plans to “mothball” a third of the Army's tanks, which will leave it with even fewer tanks than Cambodia, according to reports.Īccording to rankingscompiled by Global Firepower, Russia has the most number of tanks, including light tanks, with more than 21,000, followed by China with approximately 13,000 and and the US with more than 6,200. To put things in perspective, in the 1990s, there were four tank regiments in the British Army, which had approximately 800 tanks at their disposal. number of Challenger 2 main battle tanks in frontline service will further reduce, from three battalion-sized regiments to two, with one regiment swapping its tanks for Ajax,” Ben Barry, Senior Fellow for Land Warfare at the International Institute for Strategic Studies wrote in a May 2017 Military Balance Blog. Yet, in countries like the UK, the number of tanks and tank regiments are in decline. It provides ground forces with mobility, protection and firepower, all on a single platform. ![]() ![]() The main battle tank is an iconic symbol of an army's power on the battlefield. ![]() British Army Royal Tank Regiment and Omani tank crews with Challenger 2 tanks during Saif Sareea 3 (Photo: MoD, Crown Copyright) ![]()
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