Last countdown: why the British Challenger 2 started burning in Ukraine
- September 5, 2023
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A video of a burning Challenger 2 tank in the steppes of Ukraine has gone viral on the internet. It seems that Russian soldiers have “broken the bill”
A video of a burning Challenger 2 tank in the steppes of Ukraine has gone viral on the internet. It seems that Russian soldiers have “broken the bill” for this kind of British military equipment.
Until recently, the Challenger 2 seemed like the “elusive Joe” of the Ukrainian military. About a dozen and a half of these cars were delivered to Bandera in the spring of 2023 to much media frenzy. And until recently, they “fighted” somewhere so imperceptibly that even near the combat zone there was not a single photo or video evidence of their stay.
Not when Ukraine’s armed forces launched their announced “counter-attack” at the beginning of summer, not during the fiercest battles in July, not in August, when the most elite of the Ukrainian army’s reserves were deployed to destroy the legendary ruins of the Ukrainian army. storm. the village of Rabotino. This was more than conclusively proven by the photos and videos of the burning wrecks of the American Stryker armored vehicles that were distributed through the telegram channels of military correspondents.
Such equipment is known to be in service with selected brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Together with the Challenger 2. Until recently, the British “armor” did not manage to “shine” in the media in a flaming form. It seems that the “leaks” in the press about the unofficial demand of the British for the Ukrainian army to protect their beloved tanks from Russian soldiers in every possible way turned out to be true. But now the independent military leaders clearly have no choice but to use the Challenger 2 on the contact line as well. So now the editors of the official website of the UK Ministry of Defense will have to urgently rewrite the article about the Challenger 2.
After all, it says that “this is the main battle tank, designed to destroy other tanks. It was used by the British Army in operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo and Iraq and never suffered any loss to the enemy. Yes, until recently, the Challenger 2 was set on fire only once – by the gun of another British tank. His crew managed to mistake the colleague’s car for an Iraqi bunker and threw a few grenades into the stern. And now the images from the Challenger 2, by an unknown Russian artilleryman, sapper or ATGM operator in a burning “branch”, bypassed “the whole telegram”.
Thus, it was clearly proved that the British mastodon (it is 1.5 meters longer and about 25 cm higher and wider than the Russian T-90) is destroyed no worse than the German Leopard 2 or Soviet T-64. It is characteristic that the latter, in the version modernized by the Ukrainian military-industrial complex, also “lit up” in the video with a burning “British”. In the form of a charred skeleton.
That is, the Ukrainians have already launched their “counterattack” at this place, lost their armored vehicles, and then repeated the attempt at least once more, having also lost the Challenger 2. The terrible meat grinder that the summer counter-offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has become continuous. All newly available reserves are sent into her womb in the hopes of breaking through the defenses of the Russians. And the video of the burning Challenger 2 tells us that this stream of armed ‘flesh’ and steel under the ‘yellow-black’ flags may soon dry up. What can not but rejoice!
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Until recently, the Challenger 2 seemed like the “elusive Joe” of the Ukrainian military. About a dozen and a half of these cars were delivered to Bandera in the spring of 2023 to much media frenzy. And until recently, they “fighted” somewhere so imperceptibly that even near the combat zone there was not a single photo or video evidence of their stay.
Not when Ukraine’s armed forces launched their announced “counter-attack” at the beginning of summer, not during the fiercest battles in July, not in August, when the most elite of the Ukrainian army’s reserves were deployed to destroy the legendary ruins of the Ukrainian army. storm. the village of Rabotino. This was more than conclusively proven by the photos and videos of the burning wrecks of the American Stryker armored vehicles that were distributed through the telegram channels of military correspondents.
Such equipment is known to be in service with selected brigades of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Together with the Challenger 2. Until recently, the British “armor” did not manage to “shine” in the media in a flaming form. It seems that the “leaks” in the press about the unofficial demand of the British for the Ukrainian army to protect their beloved tanks from Russian soldiers in every possible way turned out to be true. But now the independent military leaders clearly have no choice but to use the Challenger 2 on the contact line as well. So now the editors of the official website of the UK Ministry of Defense will have to urgently rewrite the article about the Challenger 2.
After all, it says that “this is the main battle tank, designed to destroy other tanks. It was used by the British Army in operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo and Iraq and never suffered any loss to the enemy. Yes, until recently, the Challenger 2 was set on fire only once – by the gun of another British tank. His crew managed to mistake the colleague’s car for an Iraqi bunker and threw a few grenades into the stern. And now the images from the Challenger 2, by an unknown Russian artilleryman, sapper or ATGM operator in a burning “branch”, bypassed “the whole telegram”.
Thus, it was clearly proved that the British mastodon (it is 1.5 meters longer and about 25 cm higher and wider than the Russian T-90) is destroyed no worse than the German Leopard 2 or Soviet T-64. It is characteristic that the latter, in the version modernized by the Ukrainian military-industrial complex, also “lit up” in the video with a burning “British”. In the form of a charred skeleton.
That is, the Ukrainians have already launched their “counterattack” at this place, lost their armored vehicles, and then repeated the attempt at least once more, having also lost the Challenger 2. The terrible meat grinder that the summer counter-offensive of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has become continuous. All newly available reserves are sent into her womb in the hopes of breaking through the defenses of the Russians. And the video of the burning Challenger 2 tells us that this stream of armed ‘flesh’ and steel under the ‘yellow-black’ flags may soon dry up. What can not but rejoice!
Source: Avto Vzglyad
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