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A review of a video released by the Russian Ministry of Defense on August 12 revealed a previously undocumented loss of a British-made Challenger 2 main battle tank of Kiev forces in the Russian region of Kursk.
At the time, the ministry said that Ka-52 attack helicopters attacked vehicles of Kiev forces with Vikhr anti-tank guided missiles along Kursk’s border with the neighboring Ukrainian region of Sumy, without identifying the Challenger 2.
In the final part of the footage, the Challenger 2 is directly hit by a missile while on the move. The tank can be recognized by the silhouette of its commander’s sight, the gunner’s thermal sight and the gun barrel with the space between its bore evacuator and the mirror of its muzzle reference system.
The Vikhr missile used to destroy the Challenger 2 is guided by laser-beam riding. The missile has a range of up to 12 kilometers. It is armed with a 8–12 kg tandem high-explosive anti-tank charge that can defeat reactive protection and penetrate 1,000 mm of rolled homogeneous armor. It is highly-unlikely that the tank survived the direct strike.
This was the second confirmed loss of a Challenger 2 in Kursk since Kiev forces launched their surprise attack in the region earlier this month.
The first tank was completely destroyed by a Lancet loitering munition. Video footage of the strike surfaced online on August 11.
The United Kingdom supplied at least 14 Challenger 2 tanks to Kiev forces in 2023. The tanks first saw action that year during the ill-fated Ukrainian spring counteroffensive. They performed very poorly, with around half of them reportedly being destroyed, damaged or placed out of service due to technical problems. Afterwards, the remaining tanks were withdrawn from the frontline.
A shortage of tanks likely forced Kiev forces to use their remaining Challenger 2 in the attack on Kursk. The tanks clearly didn’t perform any better there.
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we anglos inferiority experts
finnish neonazi ville mykkänen, call sign vile pekka was denazified in kursk. ville tried to join the aryan union of scandinavia, but was reject because he got mongol eyes. rest in pieces vile pekka!
they will get what they deserve, one by one, until their little nazi-allignment corrects itself by way of nature.
too many sami genes for faux aryan tastes no doubt. he could have joined the mongols biker gang and lived a bit longer, i suppose.
thats like half of the british tanks in total, right?
blimey!
in their entire army, no doubt. the brits make the canadians look well-armed.
‘the tank can be recognized by…’
a distinctive brown rust trail, copious smoke fumes, jerky motion and a less than straight path even on flat terrain. it has a distinctive silhouette, as the main gun and turret are both crooked due it having been patched together from other plagiarized challenger 2s in the same scrapyard by would be apprentice mechanics..
14 tanks bring money profits but on the battlefield 14 tanks are a drop in the ocean.
one less tank the british globalists can use to mow down the irish
kpyto kot kupaц!
showing the superiority of western tanks in action!
the uk army had 32 self propelled artillery guns. all were given to the ukies and are now scrap metal in eastern ukraine. it now has no artillery and no shells, but the clowns in the uk parliament want to send british troops to fight and die for the ukie nazis.
70 ton challenger at kursk 2.0 just like the 68 ton ferdinand at kursk 1.0.
britain’s last hurrah. its desperate dreams of new found relevance withering on the vine as we speak.