Survivability: in a built-up area, the simplest rocket-launched grenade can suddenly turn itself into an effective top-attack weapon if fired from the roof or the terrace of a building. With the generalisation of conflicts in built-up areas, even the most modern tank has to be adapted the new 'laws' imposed by this environment.

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Survivability: in a built-up area, the simplest rocket-launched grenade can suddenly turn itself into an effective top-attack weapon if fired from the roof or the terrace of a building. With the generalisation of conflicts in built-up areas, even the most modern tank has to be adapted the new 'laws' imposed by this environment.

In Britain it has been realised that the Challenger 2 loader's gun had become the vehicle's most used weapon, this because it of its higher flexibility, speed of operation and capability to fire at high elevation angles, which the tank's machine gun, being slaved to the turret, cannot match. However, in the current configuration of the Challenger, the loader is badly exposed to enemy fire. The British Army, through the Urgent Operational Requirement process, is currently studying ways of improving the protection of the loader by fitting a remote control weapon station to allow him to fire a 7.62-mm machine gun from under armour.

Other main battle tank improvement programmes are mor...

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