Army's new £3.5b tanks

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New British tanks costing £3.5bn cannot be driven safely over 20mph, reveals leaked report

Trials of the vehicle had to be suspended from November 2020 to March of this year, after troops suffered swollen joints and tinnitus
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- Cannot safely travel more than 20mph
- Cannot fire whilst moving
- Cannot reverse over anything higher than 20cm
- Crew cannot spend more than 90 minutes inside them, any more and they become unwell.

Another government spending triumph.
 


As I understand it, the reason this sort of thing becomes a problem time and time again is because we wait too long between upgrade cycles for any particular type of military vehicle.

This means we cannot maintain the design and engineering specialisation in the UK.

So we are then left to buy from the international market. There is plenty of off the shelf equipment out there that works, but we always insist on a high level of customisation, and that is often where the problems arise.

So in this example of the Ajax, it's not really designed as a heavy "tank", but the army/MoD decided it needed to be more heavily armoured, so much so that the weight was increased from 25 to 40 tonnes, which the chassis and suspension can't cope with.
 
Hulkster said:
www.telegraph.co.uk

New British tanks costing £3.5bn cannot be driven safely over 20mph, reveals leaked report

Trials of the vehicle had to be suspended from November 2020 to March of this year, after troops suffered swollen joints and tinnitus
www.telegraph.co.uk www.telegraph.co.uk

- Cannot safely travel more than 20mph
- Cannot fire whilst moving
- Cannot reverse over anything higher than 20cm
- Crew cannot spend more than 90 minutes inside them, any more and they become unwell.

Another government spending triumph.
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on trials. that is the whole point of trials, is to find all the faults. these vehicles will be driven and driven and driven again until they are run into the ground.
there is a department and that is their job, to drive vehicles into the ground, to find all the faults, fix them
 
Nothing different to any other new system being brought into service. There's a reason why it's still in the trials and evaluation stage...

Update: damn it - beaten to it!
 
soapster said:
on trials. that is the whole point of trials, is to find all the faults. these vehicles will be driven and driven and driven again until they are run into the ground.
there is a department and that is their job, to drive vehicles into the ground, to find all the faults, fix them
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can’t read the article but this. If it’s new tech it’s completely normal that problems need to be solved and time gets lost.
soapster said:
on trials. that is the whole point of trials, is to find all the faults. these vehicles will be driven and driven and driven again until they are run into the ground.
there is a department and that is their job, to drive vehicles into the ground, to find all the faults, fix them
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can’t read the article but this. If it’s new tech it’s completely normal that problems need to be solved and time gets lost.
 
Hammy said:
Nothing different to any other new system being brought into service. There's a reason why it's still in the trials and evaluation stage...

Update: damn it - beaten to it!
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I get that but the list of issues seem to be more than teething trouble, they are just developments of existing vehicles.
 

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