Go and post the question over on tank net and I think they will say that it is very good but nothing is invulnerable now. I might be wrong here, but last time I looked the only tank that so far had destroyed a Challenger 2 was another one. Doesn’t the M1A1 use the same armour or something derived from it, and there have been a few of them lost, though I am not sure how many, if any, were penetrations.
The Challenger 2 killed in GWII was in a hull down position with two crew outside the tank on the Turret. It was killed by a two HESH rounds from another Challenger 2 that hit the turret. The two guys outside the tank were killed and the two inside were wounded by the blast and fireball going though the open hatches. (I’ve seen one of the Survivors in 2003 while at the Op Telic Memorial service at St Paul’s and his wounds were quite horrific). One account I’ve seen says the turret was blown off, I don’t known if that was the result of fire in the tank getting to the charge bags after going though the hatchs and after the two guys in the tank had bailed out, had they been in the tank when the turret went, I would have said the whole crew would have died.
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