A Ukrainian soldier with a machine gun in his hands rides along a dirt road on a Challenger-2 tank on August 3, 2023 in Ukraine.
A Challenger 2 tank in Ukraine on August 3.
  • A retired UK colonel and a war historian are sounding the alarm on Britain's tank production.
  • They warned against relying on advanced weapons too costly to scale up, a mistake Nazi Germany made.
  • Their chief concern is with the Challenger 3 tank program, which is set to produce 148 vehicles.

A retired British army colonel and a World War II historian are urging UK authorities to recalibrate weapons production, saying Britain is too fixated on building world-class military tech that it can't scale up.