tom163 wrote:Ayup matey, aint seen ya round here in a while. Are you sure about the challenger 2 incident? I was lead to belive only 1 or 2 have ever been destroyed.
I think that the only other Challenger knocked out was by another Challenger when it strayed into it's path during a dust storm in Iraq during the months of of the second campaign there
And you're right very few Challenger II's have been destroyed/disabled due to enemy action but this was one of them.
Ah yeah it was damaged but not destroyed , according to the MOD report on that incident the guns calibrations was knocked out and also some armour damage. The driver got some shrapnal wounds but thats it.
Tab wrote:I think that the only other Challenger knocked out was by another Challenger when it strayed into it's path during a dust storm in Iraq during the months of of the second campaign there
Yeah thats the only incident I have ever head of a Chally II being permanently destroyed.
And you're right very few Challenger II's have been destroyed/disabled due to enemy action but this was one of them.
Ah yeah it was damaged but not destroyed , according to the MOD report on that incident the guns calibrations was knocked out and also some armour damage. The driver got some shrapnal wounds but thats it.
Tab wrote:I think that the only other Challenger knocked out was by another Challenger when it strayed into it's path during a dust storm in Iraq during the months of of the second campaign there
Yeah thats the only incident I have ever head of a Chally II being permanently destroyed.
If u call shrapnel wounds loosing ure legs the driver lost both,
And you're right very few Challenger II's have been destroyed/disabled due to enemy action but this was one of them.
Ah yeah it was damaged but not destroyed , according to the MOD report on that incident the guns calibrations was knocked out and also some armour damage. The driver got some shrapnal wounds but thats it.
Tab wrote:I think that the only other Challenger knocked out was by another Challenger when it strayed into it's path during a dust storm in Iraq during the months of of the second campaign there
Yeah thats the only incident I have ever head of a Chally II being permanently destroyed.
If u call shrapnel wounds loosing ure legs the driver lost both,
Are you sure? any evidence to back it up? I was told by a trooper (good friend) he was fine.
Ayup matey, aint seen ya round here in a while. Are you sure about the challenger 2 incident? I was lead to belive only 1 or 2 have ever been destroyed.
Very sure. May well be that only 1 or 2 have been destroyed, but one of them was by an IED in Basra. I believe the official word was 'damaged', but after seeing the pictures, I don't think it was much use to anyone after that.
Was mostly just pointing out that bored_stupid was being unusually astute for a newbie. What he wrote is spot on.
, according to the MOD report on that incident the guns calibrations was knocked out and also some armour damage. The driver got some shrapnal wounds but thats it. 
