Editing Challenger 2 (section)

== Vehicles on display ==
[[File:FV4034 Challenger 2 ’06 SP 93’ “Cyclops” (52020256636).jpg|thumb|Challenger 2 on display outside the [[National Army Museum]], London]]
[[File:Challenger 2 tank outside the Discovery Museum September 2022.jpg|thumb|Challenger 2 on display outside the [[Discovery Museum]] in September 2022]]
Many of the pre-production prototype Challenger 2 vehicles are on display in the United Kingdom:
* The third and fifth prototype vehicles are displayed at [[The Tank Museum]], [[Bovington Camp|Bovington]], Dorset.
* The fourth prototype is a [[gate guardian]] outside the Royal Armoured Corps Gunnery School, [[Lulworth Camp]], Dorset.
* The seventh prototype vehicle has been plinthed outside the [[National Army Museum]] in [[Chelsea, London|Chelsea]], London, since 2021.<ref>{{cite web |title=A Tank in Chelsea |url=https://chelseasociety.org.uk/a-tank-in-chelsea/ |website=The Chelsea Society |date=19 May 2021 |access-date=11 January 2023}}</ref> This vehicle also appeared in Vickers' original sales marketing.<ref>{{Cite tweet |author=Jon Hawkes |user=@JonHawkes275 |number=1393846702319312899 |title=Here some scans of one of my original Vickers brochure from the time}}</ref>
* The eighth prototype is in the teaching collection of the [[Defence Academy of the United Kingdom|Defence Academy]], Shrivenham, Oxfordshire.
* The ninth prototype vehicle has been displayed outside the [[Discovery Museum]] in [[Newcastle upon Tyne]] since 2014. It was previously displayed outside the [[Vickers plc|Vickers]] Elswick plant in the city.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Henderson |first1=Tony |title=Challenger tank given to Newcastle museum to mark Tyneside's industrial legacy |url=https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/challenger-tank-given-newcastle-museum-8053525 |website=Chronicle Live |publisher=Evening Chronicle (Newcastle) |access-date=11 January 2023 |date=5 November 2014}}</ref>
* A Challenger 2, likely a prototype, is plinthed outside Allenby Barracks, [[Bovington Camp]], Dorset.
* The prototype CRARRV is on display at The [[REME Museum]] at [[MoD Lyneham]], Wiltshire.<ref>{{cite web |title=A 21st Century Military Museum |url=https://www.rememuseum.org.uk/News/a-21st-century-military-museum |website=The REME Museum |access-date=11 January 2023 |date=17 March 2017}}</ref>

In 2021, the then UK [[Minister of State for Defence Procurement|Minister for Defence Procurement]], [[Jeremy Quin]], acknowledged in a written answer, that were no current plans to dispose of a production vehicle to a museum, but that the UK MoD were aware that [[The Tank Museum]] intend to secure one for their collection.<ref>{{cite web |title=Tank Museum: Challenger Tanks: Question for Ministry of Defence, UIN 44214, tabled on 7 September 2021 |url=https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2021-09-07/44214# |website=Written questions, answers and statements |publisher=UK Parliament |access-date=11 January 2023 |date=13 September 2021}}</ref>