Is the Challenger mkII still the best main battle tank?
I wasn’t aware the Challenger II (not mkII) was ever the best. It has lost every international procurement competition in which it has been submitted – Greece, Turkey, Sweden, etc… Also, like with any piece of hardware, there is no such thing as the best. What is “best” for one user might be totally unsuitable for another. For example: many countries simply don’t have the infrastructure to support a 70 ton tank. Even India had to rule out the western behemoths because the T-90 was the largest tank their road and rail network could support. Before you can give an answer of what is “best” you need to define what best is. Who is using it and how? ****EDIT**** Arctic Wolf… what a bunch of rubbish. All tanks are “built to win wars”. The C II is no different in that regard. But that is not a criteria by which one chooses a piece of hardware- unless they are employing only the Chimpanzee part of the brain. So how does one determine what is “best”? By establishing a set of requirements and
