![]() My personal previous experience of tanks had been primarily on the old Chieftain, a sluggish and unreliable vehicle but one for which we came to have a grudging affection. The present British MBT, the Challenger 2, had its origins in the Chieftain Replacement programme of the 1980s, when I was a staff officer at the Headquarters of the Director of the Royal Armoured Corps (HQDRAC) at Bovington Camp in Dorset. He now works as a political, media, and defence and security consultant in Edinburgh and is a regular commentator on military and defence topics in the print and broadcast media. During his military career he attended both the British and US staff colleges and undertook a Defence Fellowship at Glasgow University. ![]() This article was written by Stuart Crawford , a regular officer in the Royal Tank Regiment for twenty years, retiring in the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in 1999. The UK now fields only 227 main battle tanks, a far cry from the 900 or so strong inventory only a couple of decades ago.
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