A 226-tonne steel superstructure is being delivered at Warminster Garrison to support the British Army’s Armoured Cavalry programme, commonly known as Ajax. The Ajax programme will deliver a family of tracked, all-terrain, digitally-enabled vehicles with a range of weapons and sensors, delivering transformational change in capability to the British Army. The ...
Thousands of UK military land vehicles will be maintained under a new £71M contract, supporting the government’s growth mission by creating hundreds of jobs. The contract award to NP Aerospace was announced during the British Army’s Defence Vehicle Dynamic (DVD) event taking place at the vehicle testing grounds at Millbrook. Called the ...
Ajax, the British Army’s new generation of armoured fighting vehicle, successfully illustrated its capacity to operate in extreme cold weather and snow (temperatures plummeted as low as -36 degrees Celsius), as well as firing on the move with accuracy. In doing so, HCR marked a significant milestone in becoming the first ...
Babcock International Group has secured the contract to provide individual trade and technical training to the British Army’s armoured vehicle community. The seven-year contract, worth approximately £75M, is expected to start in April 2024. It will deliver and support close combat training on tracked and wheeled Armored Fighting Vehicles (AFV) to ...