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Assessing the Options for Modernising the UK’s Heavy Armour

Dr Jack Watling and Nick Reynolds

6 November 202014 Minute Read

A Challenger 2 main battle tank of the Royal Welsh Battle Group on Exercise Prairie Storm at the British Army Training Unit Suffield in Canada. Courtesy of Mark Webster/Defence Imagery.

The UK has two options for modernising its armour: developing a Challenger 3 or procuring Leopard 2. The latter is an assured capability that will likely prove cheaper over the life of the programme. The former is risky but offers the UK an opportunity to develop valuable intellectual property.

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Defence Acquisition and Industrial Strategy
Land Warfare

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Europe

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Military Sciences

WRITTEN BY

Dr Jack Watling

Senior Research Fellow, Land Warfare

Military Sciences

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Nick Reynolds

Research Fellow, Land Warfare

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Assessing the Options for Modernising the UK’s Heavy Armour

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WRITTEN BY

Dr Jack Watling

Nick Reynolds

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