Family

Challenger 2

Main battle tank · Land · Alvis Car and Engineering Company Ltd · United Kingdom

Wikidata: British main battle tank

Operators among the 24
2
Active, across the 24
298
On order, across the 24
0
In service since
1998

Catalogue entry

First flight or launch
–
In service
1998
Retired
–
Generation
3
Unit cost (US dollars)
not published in Wikidata
Manufacturers
Alvis Car and Engineering Company Ltd, Alvis plc, BAE Systems, BAE Systems Platforms & Services, Vickers
Also seen as
Engineering and bridging
Wikidata classes
combat vehicle family
Identifiers
Q234676 · factbase.org/sys/WY8VD9G851 · Wikipedia

Dates, makers and classes from Wikidata (CC0); specifications stop at what Wikipedia and the manufacturer publish.

Variants

Operators

Each of the 24 nations that holds the platform, with its active count (variants summed). A nation that holds it with no published count shows no bar.

NationActiveReserveOn orderVariants
United Kingdom285
Ukraine13

Transfers

Deliveries recorded by the SIPRI Arms Transfers Database, by year, to every recipient. Derived figures only; source: SIPRI Arms Transfers Database.

1995: 182000: 202019: 52021: 102022: 242023: 192025: 1199520102025max 24
SIPRI-recorded deliveries of Challenger 2 by year

Recipients: Oman (38), Ukraine (33), Turkmenistan (10), South Sudan (10), House of Representatives (Libya)* (5), Comoros (1).

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