COVID-19 blamed for design delays on army's troubled $5b Boxer vehicles

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After first denying its largest-ever weapons project had a problem, Defence now says its Boxer fleet faces a 12-month delay.

Defence maintains its Boxer fleet "remains on track" to be delivered next year, but has now admitted there are delays with the Detailed Design Review .At a parliamentary committee on Wednesday, the head of the Defence department's Armoured Vehicle Division revealed COVID-19 lockdowns in Europe were causing problems with the DDR.

"As a result, Rheinmetall are late with the DDR of Phase 2, we are managing that intensely and we hope to achieve that later this year.

 

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From Child Care centre owner to expert in weapon systems.. Hope he is in the front line if we are sent to war.

We can always use those ever dependaple ,favorite weaponised vehicle of terrorists everywhere, The Toyota Utility.

No surprises there. Just have a look at the photo - it’s the 🥔 having his usual effect 🤣

Pfft.. What BS..

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