Britain's "Heavyweight" Champion! - Challenger 2 TES - War Thunder 

The girls in the hangers are by far the best addition in this update

It's really unfortunate that us british in game get nerfed so much from rl counterparts

Justin pretends to hate the Challies, but he always gets nukes in them! American warthunderer who low-key likes Britain better confirmed 😂❤️❤️

Yes, the ERA on the hull will save you from ATGMs including tandem ones. It's honestly a bit of a surprise when I looked at it on protection analysis and it definitely seems that it can save your skin against ATGMs hitting the side. Certainly something of merit for the heaviest MBT in the game :3 Edit: Some time after this comment and video were posted, Gaijin fixed the "overperforming" ERA. It can't eat tandem ATGMs anymore :3

I like how its basically the same as the Ariete and the Ariete PSO. Side skirt ERA, no other difference besides weight. Funny thing is that the PSO switched places with the Ariete, which made the Ariete better than its slightly better armoured twin.

Wow, it's realistic like in real life. Now Challys is immune to insurgents' RPG-7 & 29

I gotta say, for a turret that doesn"t have ammo in the back, it is huge

I once watched an XM1 get pelted by shells but only fixed on me 1.5km away. Every time I shuffled forward he'd shoot only at me but ignored everyone else who had him diled in.

Hell. No wonder why that guy used classified docs to change that tank's mantlet armor. It's so damn awful XD

In real life a Challenger 2 uses Chobham armour which is very very strong. Gaijin have really dropped the ball on this tank

Now imagine playing this thing stock lol. Even the M1 stock has trouble turning properly, can't imagine what this thing is like as I don't have the chally's

16:19 Literally every single time. I'm stuck repairing and the guy chooses to kill me rather than the guy right there shooting him. Sad moments.

Can I just point out that there is 2 versions of this add-on armour kit they could have add. First version which should have been stock is basically what we have here only instead of the era blocks on the side of the hull we have 200mm thick composite armour block's with the composite armour backplate. Then there is the second version which is what we currently have which should have been an upgrade. Has the composite armour backplate with the Israeli made ERA Block's on the side of the hull only. But there is a few issues with the model first of all it's missing it's mine protection kit on the belly of the tank and second the 200mm thick composite armour block's on the side of the turret are currently ERA which is incorrect and needs to be fixed along with an issue that has been with challenger 2 since it first appeared in game which is the mantle have bacically no armour it has been reported multiple times but they will not fix it irl it is not 30mm cast armour. It has composite armour there not 30mm cast armour but I do hope it eventually gets fixed !!

I guess how tanks perform in this game directly relates to their real life performance to some people

So this is why I said the TES should of been a modification for the current challenger 2F, exactly the same as the T72B3 modification.

2F and TES should get driver thermal camera, possible L28A1/2 and as always the Mantlet. As well as a stronger ufp. And the 1500hp uprated CV and gearbox. But you know it’s warthunder so we take what we get.

Those Era on the sides literally absorbed my heatfs from my ipm1 it's so armoured

I enjoyed this very much, no matter what tank you play you always perform very damn good but I will admit I had low expectations, all that extra protection against chemical rounds means more weight which equals to bad mobility and when it was first teased I expected that a lot of things would improve (better survivability against darts, maybe a stronger engine) but all we got was a 2 2F with more ERA/weight. If Gaijin adds something it should be diferent like the Type 10 is compared to the Type 90, it has better survivability, increased firepower, commander's and gunner's 2nd or 3rd generation thermals, you can easily tell it's overall different in many aspects and not just one aspect that will be overlooked. Either way, thanks for suffering a bit for us, I appreciate your honesty so much, it's one of your strongest suits and I'm glad you haven't changed! :)

12:14"He's a Chinese player you can tell that." LOL I wonder why they keep flag their vehicles this way.

I stopped my challenger grind when i researched the Cr.2. After that i moved to other tanks to flesh out my line up there, not that there is much other than ligh tanks... I dislike the high br's of the challengers, even the cr.1's, but i always managed to make them work. With great effort might i add though, and the cr.1 mk.3 is my favorite of the bunch dispite it now only occasionally withstanding 3bm42. 11.3 cant come soon enough

I got my first ever nuke yesterday using the first M1 abrams in a 11.0 match I feel proud

6:30 superhero landing lmao

Holy Sh*t that first round you were batting a thousand, the cliff drop flank kill ( Pressed " F " to pay respect )

Yooo, what is that Photo mode. I want to be able to use that! How do I?

13:35 Hey, that’s me! I love the videos, by the way! I didn’t see you kill me, or I totally would’ve said hi in chat. You were actually completely safe from me there, ironically I was running the stock HEAT right then.

Well at least the Chally BN is coming at some point, hopefully soon

5:32 typical british shell that bounces of things it shouldn't bounce off😂

Please check out the Leclerc xxi when you get the chance. Great job on all the videos.

All the chally 2's should get CITV and we need working camo nets on it

16:25 I feel that dude. Most of the time, the enemy have my friend (using light tank but powerfull gun) directly in front of him, easily killable, but ignore him at all. At the same time he keep loking at me and shot me from 1+km away, while I use thicc armored tank destroyer that I don't even realized he was there. He ends up critted by my friend, and I finish him lol.

JPT, you the man! As always, watching the entire video :) Great Britain has approved the development of a new tank to replace the Chally, it's a dang shame they've opted not to put Rheinmetall's 130mm, or any 130, to save money (use existing 120mm stock).

mom can we get *churchill mk7* we have *churchill mk7* at home *churchill mk 7* at home:

Hey justin if your planning on playing the merkava you may want to wait until they fix the composite armor cause right now it's just an overweight mk 2b

Dang its just the same tank, still gonna grind for it tho

There is a baby HSTVL in the Italian at 9.0 ! 60mm-APFSDS luncher with 250mm of pen, a 2sec reload (coupled with a 16 round auto loader)

There is something else that's different, I'm not sure if it's intentional or just an oversight but the blocks on the side of the turret are identical to the ones on the 2F in appearance and protection, yet it's coded as ERA instead of NERA and disappears after the first hit (where the 2F's blocks won't always). The actual ERA, as you showed, also has identical protection stats in the x-ray view to the 2F turret blocks yet clearly have much better chemical protection. There's also a composite behind the ERA, with 280mm of protection against chemical, but even if you take that into account you still have 1200mm of chemical protection more than the armour viewer/X-ray say you should... TL;DR: I think the turret blocks are still the NERA that's on the 2F and shouldn't be listed as (or act like) ERA, and the actual ERA just had the x-ray protection values copy/pasted from those NERA blocks. Edit: I think the 2F's weight may be wrong, it clearly has more add-on than the regular 2 but they both have the same weight (both with and without the add-on packages)

the dev who made this is a man of culture!!!!!!!!!!

fun fact the centurions were considered once of the best hill climbing tanks in history

chally 2 went through some of the toughest tank on tank war fare in kuate and iraq and didnt lose a single tank, its very defensive against tank rounds and there is an acount of 1 surviving over 100 hits and ddint stop shooting or lose a single crewman

Hey you uploaded the nuke! I'm the one who sent you the message after this match. Thanks for uploading it lol. Gotta say you got it up pretty quick from match to upload. I got it recorded on my end. I should upload it from my perspective.

He gets a nuke in the first game, "This tank is terrible". Oi Mate it did its job Bloody well done !!

i really want to enjoy the challys, and damn can i say i have managed to have some good games. but grinding them has been pain

Sad thing is that it doesn't have desepticon logo on the ERA

I love how you call it the ‘Chally 2’

I did wish they added a newer version the added what I belive to be the 2008 model the tes is I hope they add the black prince variant

When I ask for a sep v2 Abrams I don’t wanna heard the classic “iTs ThE sAmE tAnK wItH SoMe MoRe ArMoR aNd DiFfErNt ThErMAls” bc we have 3 challys and 3 leclercs that are almost the same

Hopefully the chally 3 gets added at some point

The armour still seems wrong. It's double the thickness of the 2f but shows up still as 30mm.

I love gow u put on 11.0 the inscription (plz no) 😹😹 and britain suffers

Well they could add the Megatron technology demonstrator as a Modification for the TES, it has extra Armour on the Turret sides, lighter Road wheels, mounted a better 1500hp MTU engine(only for a while but still could be mounted), CITV(which I don't have a primary source for)

looks like it got a table on top and some flower boxes around the turret...

Problem is that the Snail has decided that western armor is not useful against kinetic ammo, something the weight of the armor kinda states is untrue......

Wait, was that a custom skin on the LeClerc? How do you see others? I tried to the options, but I couldn't see my friends custom skin. . .

Difference between Challenger 2F and Challenger TES, Challenger 2F has a B&Q coffee table on top and the Challenger TES has a IKEA coffee table on top.

Sexy Hangar Elves. An unexpected surprise, but a welcome one.

I was hoping for the Challenger 2 Black knight so APS could tell all them helis especially vikhr to bugger off, this is a marginal upgrade/downgrade, good to have a extra backup ofc. Maybe now you can run the first chally 2 without its armor package for speed and the other 2 with

TES comes with a 1500hp engine too, where the hell is my engine gaijin

British tank armor specs are classified to the point they make it look bad.

Make a Vid On Leclerc S21, the great back up to the Leclerc ;D

It's another tank to boost Britain's lineup the same as the new Leclerc boosts France's lineup

One word..... CLASSIFIED!

When he was fighting that TYPE 16, his APFSDS should of shattered and not bounce...because its impossible realistically to bounce a APFSDS.

Love seeing someone enjoy this game . Unfortunately for me and many others it’s always pain. I’ve never got a chance to get a nuke at top tier . Never could get enough SP either by lack of players or I had bad games

I’m not ready for stock grind in this thing

They could've just made the engine 1500 hp cause thats what the engine can actually do. IRL though they limit it to 1200 HP for fuel purposes.

This Game does NO justice and honestly lies often about many tanks the Challenger 2 MBT is one of them Classed as one of he best in the world in most peoples top 3 and 100% in everyone's top 5 that knows anything about it It has the Longest MBT on MBT Kill ever , A world record , It also has this 2 times over been smacked by a Ru Kornet ATGM & over a dozen RPG's and stayed in the fight , Was not knocked out and took out the two hunter killer teams in that ambush and still fount on that day , And in another ambush it was hit by even More RPG's in the double digests and IED and was not knocked out , The only Tank to ever do so , on record - to be hit by a ATGM & That many RPG's 14 plus in that ambush which is fucking insane , no MBT has ever taken damage like that and lived , The other ambush is just as insane - all well documented , You can read the AA reports , " quoted " The Chobham armor is what saved the tank , ( Top secret armor made in the UK & gifted to the states and was immediately put on the M1A2 Was back in the fight hours later , If you ask most tank crews they will all say that the Challenger 2 has the best solvability Package even with no addon's So having the Longest Tank V Tank Kill in the world ( In Iraq ) And to survive what both Challenger 2's did , Is unheard of , I.e The M1A2 Got hit with a single RPG but the blow out panels did there job ,and was back in the fight ( Love that beast ) and the Leopard 2 was completely destroyed in Syria by a Kornet ATGM Tandem warhead ( Still a super sexy MBT tho , If looks could kill LOL ) So imo its in a class of its own , I don't think anything comes close in crew protection & Survivability , Imo its hunter killer Fire Control system is the best in the world and many many M1A2 Crew's that got to use it were very impressed , Lol rant over , i just hate the way this game makes it look like a bad or just okay MBT when its one of the best in the world , I dont think the best but its very much up there

and 3rd person camera is one of the things that ruins RB that and killcams people just hide till they see a tank then just pop out hit them and go bk to hiding.... its why SB tanks is such a better experience

17:09 Don't people also say the Abrams is the best tank and most modern in the world? I have the feeling everyone is wrong about it.

So basically a stock tank(with HEAT)killer. With stock HEAT you can't even pen the side of this thing..

So........ the British Tanks are finally......... good? I love how there was a sigh when u remembered you were using L27A1

I hate the fact we can hear other vehicle engine.. I understand if we're standing still with engine on/off.. but when we're moving? Come on! That other player engine audio slider is a heresy! Sorry for the rant! Awesome vid! Love me some chally action!

Chongullenger 2 TES. Extra thicc!

Im pretty sure the challenger 2 TES is the heaviest post-war tank in the game

My guy, how did you get a nuke so easily first game xD

Duo tag team tes n type10 or leclerc would be op.

That ERA side armor is actually insane. Russian top tier APFSDS cant even pen that.

btw now the stormer hvm is more useless than a wirbelwind, so hats off to gayjob

we just gotta leak sum clasefied files then they gonna fix it

Should have given. It the L28 round as well

What is the table-looking thing on top of the turret?

As a brit i can say we do have decent tanks they do have flaws but nowhere near as bad as these such as the mantlet and sides

maybe a dumb question but how did that Leclerc get that skin? I thought others couldn't see custom skins

Fun fact. This tank is the 6th Heaviest TANK in the whole game.

Sideskirt armor nerfed to hell lmao

I wonder what's that circular antina thing in the turret

my final comment. not one chally has been lost to enemy fire and has been in the thick of it not to mention tanking a ATGM hit and multiple RPG hits from all around the tank and still survived. war thunder does not do the chally any justice

Why gaining insists this tank was that slow....irl you'll see videos of it moving like a stabbed rat with all that armor

Lol I was the graffiti Leclerc GG Justin.

What justin said is all true. This tank is just pain in the butt. Yeah it has good survivability but that doesn't guarantee anything. Speed is the meta in top tier and if you got speed, you already halfway there to win the match. If i can trade my chally, i will trade it with Leo2A6 or M1A2.

not sure why they added this tank into the game as you have said its basically a 2f and not much difference they should have been adding the challenger 3 which is the current upgrade program for the challenger which improves firepower getting the L55a1 cannon as well as a massive engine upgrade taking it from 1200hp to 1500hp and optic upgrade then at least britain could be a little more competitive at high tier.

why does it have a tea table on top haha

I cant tell if it's just a good tank or if you're just a really good player or both.

Noooook the platano guy was me sowwyyyyy justin😭😭😭😭 in x m1

What the hell°¿ I wasn't sub to you, well now I am (:

Down bad in War Thunder 😳

Hey I am fairly new to WT ( like 200h ) and I would like to play with a squad to improve and learn new things about maps and stuff. Do any of you know a discord from a RU-vidr or something where I could find a squad to play please ? ( I have friends I just can't get them to play the game more than 10 min )

The challengers are the best top tir tanks For arcade battles

ERA to the game

I thought custom skins weren’t visible to other players??

I don't see a bluest of tonk D:< ROOD!