Challenger Tanks
(asked on 23rd February 2022) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he held discussions with the NATO Secretary General before announcing plans to reduce Challenger tank numbers by a third in the Defence Command Paper.
This question was answered on 28th February 2022
The Secretary of State for Defence spoke with the NATO Secretary General on March 17 2021 ahead of the Defence Command Paper's publication on March 22. In this call the Secretary of State set out how the planned upgrades to Challenger would make it one of the most lethal and capable tanks in Europe, enabling heavy brigades configured for divisional warfighting.