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De FV4030/4 Challenger 1 is een Britse main battle tank (MBT) gebruikt door het Britse leger van 1983 tot 2001, toen het werd vervangen door de Challenger 2. Het grootste deel van de Challenger 1-vloot werd vervolgens verkocht aan Jordanië, waar het in dienst bleef bij het Koninklijke Jordaanse leger totdat terugtrekkingen in 2018 werden aangekondigd. Lokaal bekend als Al-Hussein, kregen deze voertuigen verschillende Jordaanse modificaties voordat ze werden vervangen door Leclerc-tanks van Franse makelij uit de VAE en ex-Italiaanse B1 Centauro 8×8 tankjagers op wielen. De Jordaanse Challenger 1-vloot was in januari 2023 buiten gebruik gesteld

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The Challenger 1 was a British main battle tank that served in the British Army from 1983 to 2001. It was developed from an Iranian order for an improved version of the Chieftain tank, but after the Iranian Revolution, the British Army became the customer and adopted it as its new MBT. The Challenger 1 was notable for being the first tank to use Chobham armour, a composite ceramic armour that offered superior protection against kinetic energy and shaped charge projectiles.
The Challenger 1 also had a powerful 120 mm rifled gun that could fire various types of ammunition, including high-explosive squash head (HESH), armour-piercing discarding sabot (APDS), and depleted uranium (DU) rounds. The Challenger 1 participated in several conflicts, most notably the Gulf War of 1990-1991, where it achieved a record-breaking tank kill at a distance of over four kilometers. The Challenger 1 was replaced by the Challenger 2 in the late 1990s and early 2000s, and most of its remaining units were sold to Jordan, where they were upgraded and renamed Al-Hussein. The Jordanian Challenger 1 fleet was retired by January 2023.