The stop-start delivery of the British Army’s new Ajax armoured vehicle is turning into a defence procurement soap opera.

A S MOST DEFENCE ministries know, military-equipment procurement is governed by Murphy’s law: “Anything that can go wrong ...

The UK government in 2010 scrapped the Nimrod maritime patrol aircraft programme, which had run badly over budget and was ...

The armored vehicles had been declared fully functioning after nine years of delays to the $8 billion program and repeated ...

An NAO report pointed out that the future of the British Army’s Ajax programme remains unclear as the MoD continues to face significant issues with the vehicle, in addition to not having a timescale ...

The UK’s armoured cavalry programme will deliver a further 55 Ajax-series armoured vehicles between July 2025 and December 2025, for a total of 128 units delivered over the course of the year, ...

A former military commander has said the Army’s project to build next-generation armoured vehicles has been a “shambles” and “a complete and utter disaster" in a scathing assessment. Meanwhile a ...

General Dynamics Land Systems-UK has inaugurated its new Armoured Fighting Vehicle (AFV) Assembly, Integration and Testing (AIT) facility at Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales, from where it will support the ...