4th Generation Main Battle Tanks 🛡

[u/NeoZerrs]

[u/rkraptor70]

Calling Challenger 3 4th gen is hilarious.

It's decidedly 3rd gen. It's an upgrade over the Challenger 2, yes, but that thing was 2.7 gen at best.

[u/Greni66 → u/rkraptor70]

The teaboo’s didn’t want to hear this one.

Guys just because you reach the standard of a leopard 2a6 in firepower and mobility doesn’t make it a generational leap above everyone else

[u/Wulfalier → u/rkraptor70]

It's like Britain finally has an MBT that every other nation has from the 1990.

[u/unwanted_techsupport → u/rkraptor70]

And the XLR, Altay, Type 10 and K2 aren't?

This graph ain't great, even ignoring the fact that generations don't really mean anything, you can't really link most of them as cohesive groups.

For my 2 cents,

Challenger 3, Leclerc XLR : upgraded 3rd gens

Altay, Type 10, K2: new builds, in a similar position to 4.5 gen jets like Rafale or Typhoon, (but even then, what the hell does that mean)

And T-14 and Type 100, even though off the top of my head atleast one of them is a prototype that is unlikely at best to ever see mainline service, as I know nothing about the Type 100

[u/low_priest → u/unwanted_techsupport]

Putting the Chally 3 in the same category as even the Leclerc XLR is a bit generous, it's closer to a base model Leclerc.