LONDON — The British Army’s troubled effort to acquire reconnaissance armored vehicles is back on track, with the Ajax program now scheduled to achieve initial operating capability by December 2025, ...

An Ajax Ares armoured personnel carrier on the Bovington training range during a visit by Wallace on 22 February. (Ben Birchall – Pool/Getty Images) The Ajax armoured vehicle programme has turned a ...

The Ajax is a family of tracked, all-terrain, digitally enabled, armored fighting vehicles. The British Army is modernizing its arsenal, seeking to bolster its capabilities with an eye toward a ...

LONDON, Dec 18 (Reuters) - Britain said it was pausing all trials of the Ajax fighting vehicle, the latest setback for the army's troubled 6 billion pound ($8 billion) programme after years of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Soldiers operating Britain’s next generation armoured fighting vehicles received medical attention for hearing ...

The UK’s Ajax armoured cavalry programme, intended to provide the British Army with a new generation of armoured fighting vehicles (AFV) and variants, is projecting to deliver more than 180 vehicles ...

A prototype of the British Army's Ajax vehicle is shown in 2016 near the assembly site in Merthyr Tydfil, Wales. British defense officials have been scrambling in 2021 to address excessive noise and ...

Soldiers had to go to hospital this summer because of hearing and other issues after trialling the British Army's Ajax armoured vehicle, raising fresh fears about the problem-plagued platform. The ...

The army's £10m Ajax fighting vehicle was not an accident waiting to happen - but one that was already unfolding even as a defence minister declared it to be safe. Luke Pollard, the minister ...

13:21, Thu, Nov 6, 2025 Updated: 13:25, Thu, Nov 6, 2025 The British Army’s newest armoured fighting vehicle has finally been given the green light to deploy on operations after years of delays. The ...

British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace is given a demonstration of an Ajax variant at Bovington Camp, a British Army military base, on Feb. 22, 2023. (Ben Birchall/AFP via Getty Images) LONDON — The ...