

These are the Queen’s Royal Hussars, the King’s Royal Hussars, the Royal Wessex Yeomanry and the Royal Tank Regiment, the names of the first three reflecting the historical conversion from cavalry to armoured units, and the last one of course being a purposely formed tank unit. The main role of the Challenger is for its crew – the commander, gunner, loader and driver – to find, take on and destroy enemy tanks.Ĭhallengers are operated by four of the British Army’s armoured regiments, based either at Tidworth in Wiltshire or Bovington in Dorset. The first and most preeminent of these is the Army’s main battle tank, the Challenger 2. The main element of any fleet of vehicles in any army will always be its fighting vehicles, of which the British Army has a wide range for transporting foot soldiers to battle, and supporting them once they are there.

An army marches on its stomach, as the saying goes, but in the modern British Army soldiers are often carried into battle by combat vehicles.įurthermore, for those that do march, the food that keeps them going is also brough to them by a range of support vehicles.
