- Challenger 2 entered service with the British Army in June 1998 seeing operational service in Kosovo and Bosnia.
- Following the issue of a staff requirement for a next-generation tank, Vickers formally submitted its plans for Challenger 2 to the British Ministry of Defense.
- Challenger 2 Gun Tank. An un-deployed Challenger 2 simply has its base Dorchester armour covering its hull and turret fronts.
- Challenger 2 is a third-generation British main battle tank, and it is considered one of the toughest tanks in the world.
- Challenger 2 is used by four armoured regiments, based in the South West of England at Tidworth, Wiltshire, and Bovington, Dorset.
- The Challenger II is armed with a powerful and very accurate 120 mm rifled gun. Its gun is rifled as opposed to smoothbore guns used by all other modern MBTs.
- The Challenger 2 is one of the few last generation battle tanks still using rifled cannon due to the wide use of squash head ammunition by the British army.
- The FV4034 Challenger 2 (MOD designation "CR2") is a British main battle tank (MBT) in service with the armies of the United Kingdom and Oman.
- The FV4034 Challenger 2, is the UKs Main Battle Tank and operates across the globe from exercises with allied countries to theatres of war like Iraq.