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Ukraine is lucky to have Britain’s Challenger 2 tanks

21 January 2023

10:32 PM

21 January 2023

10:32 PM

I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, straining upon the start. So wrote William Shakespeare in Henry V. He could well have been writing about the British Army’s main battle tank, the mighty 62-tonne behemoth that is Challenger 2, which is now being sent to Ukraine.

The Challenger 2 is a weighty sort of greyhound.

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