I remember when the Dutch had this many tanks not so long ago and now have none. The SDSR (or just SDR) plan of 2010 spelled out the cuts to the British military which is known as "the future force 2020", many of the cuts since have gone deeper then the SDSR original plan by way of the related story below concerning the state of their armored units. And some have just not made sense such as the billions of pounds spent to refurbish the RAF/RN HARRIER GR.7 and GR.9 fighter-bombers which, the USMC ended up buying at well below "bargain basement prices" so that we would have plenty of spare parts for our USMC AV-8B HARRIERS. The best example for me is that, the RN had to press ahead with the two Queen Elizabeth class carriers because it was more expensive to stop and scrap them then to just finish them off. I bet the RN wishes they had kept their HARRIERS now since a money making decision was made to redesign them with the traditional "jump" deck. Anyway here's your tank story...
The one and only...Royal Tank Regiment...
http://www.armyrecognition.com/augus...aine_0308.html
I'll have to do some checking but the TES mod might be a good start point for the CHALLENGER 2 TI/GSR upgrade as discussed recently and in the past.
On SDSR 2010...
https://www.direct.gov.uk/prod_consu.../dg_191634.pdf
On the Carriers...
http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/the-equi...rcraft-carrier
https://www.defenseindustrydaily.com...updated-01630/
This last will "unlock" at a later date just us members get a first look at the updates/rewrites before the general release on the site.
The HARRIER issue I covered from the start in the
Jets and Planes Thread if you desire further reading.
Regards,
Pat