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Sarastro wrote:You win the prize sir.

Why thank you very much

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.

Yes, here's a link to the story:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle ... 583607.stm

And you're right very few Challenger II's have been destroyed/disabled due to enemy action but this was one of them.

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

bored_stupid wrote:

Yes, here's a link to the story:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle ... 583607.stm

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.

tom163 wrote:

bored_stupid wrote:

Yes, here's a link to the story:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle ... 583607.stm

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,

green boil wrote:

tom163 wrote:

bored_stupid wrote:

Yes, here's a link to the story:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle ... 583607.stm

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.

I take that back, I have just read a different report, my mate must have been talking about the other injured person.

Anyone who attacks is at a disadvantage, that's just the way it works unfortunatley.

we where given some stats on the bronco's that are getting modded for afghan, even given a link to the original article: http://www.mod.uk/DefenceInternet/Defen ... ItsWay.htm

they look good tbh. this is a bit of a douchey video, but you get the gist http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDfHHKZf3-w

EB

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.