It can be also fitted with the Explosive Reactive Armour (ERA) package to the front of the hull. The turret incorporates second-generation Chobham armor, also called Dorchester with a significant increase in protection against both KE and CE attack. The main armament of the Challenger 2 MBT consists of a BAE Systems, RO Defence 120 mm rifled tank gun designated the 元0A1. Royal Tank Regiment of British army continues to improve combat readiness using the new version of the Challenger 2 main battle tank under the program Streetfighter. The following list presents the main battle tanks starting with the most modern one down to the last of the 15 selected.Ĭhallenger 2 Streetfighter main battle tank of the British Army (Picture source Twitter)Ĭhallenger 2 Streetfighter (UK) - January 2020 To such an extent that some countries are considering a possible reverse move, no longer excluding to re-equip some units with tracked tanks in the future, even if it might rather be with medium tanks, not main battle tanks. The list presented here is composed of the following tanks: Challenger 2 Streefighter, T-90MS, T-14 Armata for Russia, M1A2 SEP V3 for the U.S., the VT4 (MBT-3000) and Type 99 (ZTZ99) for China, the Leclerc XLR for France, the 'Leoclerc' EMBT for France and Germany, the Leopard 2A7 for Germany, the Challenger 2 “Black Night” for UK, the Altay for Turkey, the TAM 2IP for Argentina, the K2 Black Panther for South Korea, the Type 10 for Japan, the Merkava IV Barak / Merkava IV M Windbreaker for Israel, and the Karrar for Iran.Įven if many countries have got rid of their main battle tanks to rely only on 6圆 or 8x8 combat vehicles, sometimes even of all kinds of tracked combat vehicles, it appears that in some circumstances, the need for heavy of medium tanks remains blatant.

These may thus well give way to discussion.Īnalysis Army Recognition: Top 15 most modern MBTs Main Battle Tanks in the world Concerning the issuing date, we have tried to consider the most plausible ones among those mentioned for prototypes and mass production.

Other light and medium tanks would deserve to appear in this list, as they became or become operational during these last years, the most recent one being the Turkish-Indonesian Kaplan-Harimau Medium Tank. Army Recognition is presenting the 15 most modern main battle tanks currently in production or ready for series production to date (19 April 2020), a list that excludes the light and medium tanks of the 25-35-ton class except one, the Argentinian TAM 2IP, to have a South-American tank in the list.

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