JORDAN COMPLETES TANK UPGRADE PROTOTYPE

AMMAN [MENL] -- Jordan has completed a prototype of an upgradedBritish-origin main battle tank. The military-owned King Abdullah II Design and Development Bureau, knownas KADDB, has displayed an upgraded Challenger-1 tank in cooperation withWestern contractors. The Challenger-1, renamed Al Hussein by Jordan, has notbeen formally completed and contains mock-ups of several key subsystems.