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that feeling when you manage to finish a model before the New Year's Eve, but the good camera is all the way back in Poznan and you have to wait until the next year to take photos which are at least acceptable.

British Challenger 1 main battle tank, the first vehicle of this type to be fitted with Chobham armour - a multilayer composition of ceramic tiles inside a metal framework, reinforced with backing plate (the full composition remains a secret to this day, 40 years after it was first produced). These tiles are extremely hard and resistant, so that the jet streams of the HEAT rounds become dispersed within them, and standard kinetic ammunition shatters on impact.

Originally fitted on its predecessor, the Chieftain tank, Challenger's main armament is a 120 mm Royal Ordnance L11A5 rifled gun, known for its excellent ballistic characteristics. On February 26th 1991, a Challenger 1 taking part in the battle of Norfolk (a codename for British objective) during Operation Granby, British intevention in the Persian Gulf, scored the longest tank-on-tank kill in history, taking out an Iraqi T-55 with an APFSDS round (Armour Piercing, Fin Stabilised, Discharging Sabot) at a distance of 4.7 km (2.9 miles).

In British service, the tank was replaced by Challenger 2 with further improvements to armour, mobility and firepower (it is generally considered to be either equal to, or better than the American M1A1 Abrams), while the Jordanian Army still operates ca. 400 of these machines. The Jordanian Challengers are to be upgraded to the Al-Hussein variant, designed and produced locally; one of the variants involves an unmanned turret, with the crew located completely within the hull).

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Description
that feeling when you manage to finish a model before the New Year's Eve, but the good camera is all the way back in Poznan and you have to wait until the next year to take photos which are at least acceptable.

British Challenger 1 main battle tank, the first vehicle of this type to be fitted with Chobham armour - a multilayer composition of ceramic tiles inside a metal framework, reinforced with backing plate (the full composition remains a secret to this day, 40 years after it was first produced). These tiles are extremely hard and resistant, so that the jet streams of the HEAT rounds become dispersed within them, and standard kinetic ammunition shatters on impact.

Originally fitted on its predecessor, the Chieftain tank, Challenger's main armament is a 120 mm Royal Ordnance L11A5 rifled gun, known for its excellent ballistic characteristics. On February 26th 1991, a Challenger 1 taking part in the battle of Norfolk (a codename for British objective) during Operation Granby, British intevention in the Persian Gulf, scored the longest tank-on-tank kill in history, taking out an Iraqi T-55 with an APFSDS round (Armour Piercing, Fin Stabilised, Discharging Sabot) at a distance of 4.7 km (2.9 miles).

In British service, the tank was replaced by Challenger 2 with further improvements to armour, mobility and firepower (it is generally considered to be either equal to, or better than the American M1A1 Abrams), while the Jordanian Army still operates ca. 400 of these machines. The Jordanian Challengers are to be upgraded to the Al-Hussein variant, designed and produced locally; one of the variants involves an unmanned turret, with the crew located completely within the hull).

The kit
to be added