Apparently, the Israelis are designing a version of the Trophy that can beat KE rounds
The Armata
apparently already has such a system. However, no one has seen it in action, the Russians have never explained or demo'd it so as far as the west is concerned it's about as real a claim as Chickens ultra heavy launch vehicles.
I doubt it will be for export to Western countries for another few years and it will be extremely expensive to mount. So it may not end up in British hands for a while.
I think the main time delay will be that Rafael will time its completion with whenever the Israelis get around to upgrading or replacing Merkava. They're already on about making it so that it solely protected by Trophy, including removing
all the armour from it because its so effective. And they're already nearly a million dollars a system.
I bet the US-Controlled Coalition would put all the Challenger Tanks in the riskiest jobs.
Politics aside, it'd be rather difficult forcing the UK to lead any charge. We just don't have the numbers and any peer-peer conflict involving any state with MBTs would require the US to do much of the heavy lifting.
still believe Challengers are practically equivalent to Abrams and performance is based off of amount of training provided to crews and aptitude of brass. For instance, Abrams are being destroyed in Yemen because the Saudis are retarded enough to send Abrams by themselves without ANY infantry support
Not just the Yemenis. The Iraqis (because they're lazy as fuck) also managed to make a right mess of defending Iraq against Daesh, despite having M1 Abrams they'd acquired from the US.
Same happened in Syria, where the Russians lent a load of T-80 and -90 to the regime and they thought they were invulnerable.
Only to discover that whilst Shtora is good against active guided ATGMs like Jav, it doesn't work against optical systems like TOW and Daesh / YPG had
lots of TOW to go around.
The current small conflicts have really opened up a can of worms in regards to the perceived invulnerable MBTs and as you say, there is no substitute to good training, good tactics and not being lazy bastards.
Personally though, I'd go with Leopard as the best tank in NATO at the moment.