Bit of a bodge there. AJAX was never meant to enter service with LE TACIS, Morpheus. "And to add insult to injury the main contractor for Morpheus is … General Dynamics Mission Systems (GDMS), a sister organisation, or at very least a cousin, of the very company struggling to deliver the Ajax v...

That appears to be consistent with BOXER (but not AJAX).

BB85 wrote: ↑12 Mar 2023, 18:57 Why would they only be an interim solution?

Perhaps because if we're investing in a solution for the future we need to be considering something beyond L52? US army are going to L58 and RD are discussing L60.

I wonder if reserve Light Gun units will be quickly introduced to any truck-based auto-loaded solution. Can't be any more complicated than MLRS surely?

On which chassis?

Ron5 wrote: ↑06 Mar 2023, 13:42 Rumors are that Italy will be the latest customer for CV90 Mk IV. So yet another missed opportunity for Ajax.

I thought Italy were buying IFVs?

Whilst hugely off topic, the CR3 development funding provided in the competitive phase is somewhat a red herring. The Challenger 2 Life Extension Programme was a limited scope, obsolescence programme. It was not CR3. It was hard to call it an upgrade as the additional functionality was almost nil. T...

It looks like none of the variants met the mod requirements though but the issues of vibration noise etc was suppressed for years while they blamed the issues on the turret and government supplied equipment. To be honest even without the turret and ammunition feed mechanism if the MOD were constant...

But over half the variants didn't require a turret so why were they not delivered first, inline with the original delivery dates, that would give more time to sort out the turret. Because MOD stopped paying? I understand their point being these are all support variants, why would we accept them whe...

Was Scout SV ever actually demonstrated prior to the contract being signed in 2014? I don't recall ever seeing a demonstration vehicle or the mod signing off that it met any requirements, maybe it was demonstrated on a power point demonstration that cost £500m. There was definitely an ARES vehicle ...

SD67 wrote: ↑28 Feb 2023, 16:05 It is a 5.5 billion contract. The entire design phase of T26 was only around 700 million.

Scout SV demonstration contract was £500m.

What was £859m spent on?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland- ... s-31554494

Here’s a crazy idea - design a new chassis from scratch for both CH3 and Ajax. Maybe Ajax gets a SWB version. Both with Hydragas. Build them on one production line at the old Armstrong works currently used by Pearson. Commonality, economies of scale, option to grow the tank fleet in the future Disa...

Ron5 wrote: ↑27 Feb 2023, 13:51 Typical poor contractor attitude. Instead of trying to supply the best possible, hides behind words in imperfect contracts (as all contracts are).

Best possible under what constraints?

If you want gold plated, don't pay for copper.

The Challenger hydro-pneumatic suspension said to have provided years of outstanding cross-country performance through the long suspension arm travel and controlled bump and rebound behaviour offered, surely with that successful experience with hydro-pneumatic suspension why did Army not make it a ...

Ron5 wrote: ↑26 Feb 2023, 13:33, it should have chosen CV90 which was then (and now) in full production and service use.

Oh yeah the famous CV90 mk4 that was unveiled in... 2021. Not in production, not in service.

Since vibration induced injuries can also come through the floor perhaps they put the padding on the floor as well ,I have included a few international articles on vibration people here can work out if all of the transmission points of vibration to feet and hands have been protected Foot vibrations...

If AJAX was OK all along what was the point of all the hullabaloo then? Politics, partly. AJAX is held to standards that far exceed any of the legacy platforms in the British Army (and MOD is increasingly held to the same standards as civilian employers), and also the army insists on mandating PPE ...

If it’s a problem or not I don’t know. But it sounds like there has been mitigation to ensure injury to soldiers can be claimed as within H&S limits which is fair enough. But the question remains if vibration and resonance are remaining within the hull then what does that do to thru life effect...

If it’s a problem or not I don’t know. But it sounds like there has been mitigation to ensure injury to soldiers can be claimed as within H&S limits which is fair enough. But the question remains if vibration and resonance are remaining within the hull then what does that do to thru life effect...

Because Brimstone 2 or 3A/B is still an £80,000+ missile...with a very small warhead, reliant on semi-active laser guidance or a recognisable target via its MMW seeker. It's not really a comparable weapon to SDB1 for example. SDB1 price was around £20,000 at the time Brimstone was £80,000...with a ...

Timmymagic wrote: ↑28 Nov 2022, 16:06 [..we have no SDB1, APKWS or JDAM equivalent...we can't afford to sling Spear, Storm Shadow, FCASW or even Paveway IV at every target. We need something really cheap...

Why isn't the answer Brimstone II?

Isn't the problem with 105mm that if you put in all the precision guidance with GPS/IR etc, there's not much room left for the bang. And it will still be out ranged by 155mm. And any SPG versions wouldn't be significantly cheaper and still too heavy for helo's. 105mm at the ranges it's used at only...

That is exactly the point if the decision for the long range weapon has been made now the vector became a secondary question for political reasons. I think the Ukrainian Air Force will won't the most able of the variants of the Typhoons I don't know if the Qatari contract planes cane be made availa...

As we know the British ROWANEX 105mm HE round has the same explosive power as a standard 155mm M107 round so if we wanted we could make some ROWANEX 155mm rounds with the power of a 205mm round Does anyone think the HE content is something that needs improving? Does increased HR performance balance...

So 120mm won’t be capable of providing the close support previously provided by old as90 it would after all be closer to the front than the old artillery? AS90 never provided close support. It was always a long range artillery piece, but in 30 years the capability of artillery has changed. are pref...