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The Challenger 3 Tank Has One Problem No One Saw Coming
The UK’s Challenger 3 program represents a significant “reinvention” of 148 Challenger 2 tanks, featuring a new NATO-standard ...
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Defence minister ‘horrified’ by ‘serious failings’ in £5.5bn Ajax tank programme
A review of the £5.5 billion Ajax light tank programme found it had “serious failings” and exposed military personnel to “potential harm”, a defence minister said. Jeremy Quin told the ...
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UK to receive 180 “deployable” Ajax AFVs and variants by year-end
The Ajax programme had to be paused in 2021 following ... the current Challenger 2 and future Challenger 3 main battle tanks in providing the British Army’s lead heavy armour element.
Daily Mail2y
D-Day for British Army's ill-fated Ajax tank: Plans for first new armoured vehicle in a generation could be SCRAPPED this week as MoD makes decision on whether to press ahead ...
If the Ajax programme is cancelled ... Ajax is the British Army's new tank that's too heavy, makes crew sick and can't fire on the move... all thanks to a mix of cronyism and incompetence ...
Daily Mail2y
Is the 'disastrous' £5.5billion British Army Ajax tank now set for the scrap-heap? Calls for delayed rollout of armoured vehicle to finally be shelved over concerns it's too ...
If the Ajax programme is cancelled ... Ajax is the British Army's new tank that's too heavy, makes crew sick and can't fire on the move... all thanks to a mix of cronyism and incompetence ...
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Wallace Declares Army's 'Troubled' £5.5 Billion Ajax Tank Order Back on Track
Better seat cushions and ear defenders are among improvements being hailed by Defence Secretary Ben Wallace as "turning the corner" for the "troubled" £5.5 billion programme to build the Army's ...
Daily Express2y
UK military woes deepen with 'troubled' Ajax tanks delayed by another four years
The British Army's new fleet of light tanks has been delayed for four ... Ministers had previously said that the "troubled" Ajax armoured vehicles programme has "turned a corner", and that they ...
Daily Express2y
Tobias Ellwood slams Ajax military shambles with UK relying on 'obsolete tanks'
Tory MP Tobias Ellwood branded Britain's Ajax programme a "disgrace" after it emerged the tanks will not fully enter service until the end of the decade. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) said the ...
Wales Online2y
Payments for tanks manufactured in Merthyr to resume after years of delays
He said further payments for 589 of the fighting vehicles will be made against a "new schedule and its milestones", adding: "The Ajax programme is turning a corner, but this does not remove the ...
Southern Daily Echo2y
Wallace declares Army’s ‘troubled’ £5.5 billion Ajax tank order back on track
An Ajax Ares tank on the training range at Bovington Camp ... former head of the Royal Navy Lord West of Spithead said: “The Ajax programme, no matter how much one dresses it up, has been ...
Norwich Evening News2y
Wallace declares Army’s ‘troubled’ £5.5 billion Ajax tank order back on track
An Ajax Ares tank on the training range at Bovington Camp ... Speaking in Parliament in December, former head of the Royal Navy Lord West of Spithead said: “The Ajax programme, no matter how much one ...