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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Christopher McKeon

MoD told ‘fix or fail’ struggling Ajax programme or risk national security

PA Media

The Ministry of Defence should fix or scrap its troubled Ajax armoured vehicle programme this year, or risk compromising national security, an influential parliamentary committee has warned.

The Ajax programme, intended to provide a state-of-the-art reconnaissance vehicle for the Army, has already been running for 12 years and cost £3.2 billion but has so far failed to deliver a single deployable vehicle.

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