The British Army Hasn’t Bought New Armored Vehicles In A Quarter-Century

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How incompetent are the officials in charge of the British Army’s major equipment programs? Despite spending billions of dollars since 1997, the army has delivered zero—that’s right, zero—new armored fighting vehicles to front-line units.

the vehicle. To put that into perspective, in the 23 years since the Challenger 2 entered service, the U.S. Army the developed and fielded several new versions of its own M-1 tank.

Observers expect the Integrated Review to shrink the Challenger 2 fleet to around 150 tanks. Whether those remaining tanks will ever get their long-delayed upgrades remains an open question. The Integrated Review could abruptly end the upgrade effort and scrap the entire Warrior fleet, leaving the army without a tracked infantry fighting vehicle.

There’s no plan at all to replace the army’s 500 1960s-vintage FV432 tracked armored personnel carriers, but a separate effort to introduce a wheeled APC might in the short term finally produce a combat-ready vehicle.

 

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....on the advice of The Firm. 😏

Just say 25 years you drama queens.

& they never needed them. Their govt saved A LOT!

Why should they? They have us. Wait till they get another one of my bills.

Too busy selling guns to MBS, eh?

Well they probably can’t afford it since they give their people National healthcare. They must actually care about their people.

I’m down for some peace time!

No more wars to fight init

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