JcDent

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Military history, video games and miniature wargaming.

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Passionate about complaining about Warhammer.


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Any country with more than a single truck factory seems to be developing IFVs and here we have UK which seems to have made prototypes so bad they had to suspend testing due to fearing for crew health.

This isn't even some future-tech design like F-35. The Ajax isn't meant to have hard-light shields and be able to shift dimensions to avoid incoming fire.

They're fucking up in making a tracked box that could move without harming everyone inside.

It's an infantry fighting vehicle that can't fire on the move.

AAAAAAGH


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in reply to @JcDent's post:

only that since the above text was written the cost has been reevaluated to at least 4.3bn GBP lmao. the company that won the tender made forklifts iirc before switching to (their attempt at) IFVs.

I'm not saying it is typical of the way govt bids tend to go in this country, but I'm also saying that it is precisely typical. clown shoes island

oh! gotcha. I think I'm just convinced that it's so unrecoverable even the germans/whoever couldn't save it now. they couldn't even build the thing in a straight line fgs

I remember reading about deafening noise, vibrations and insufferable heat in some other tracked combat vehicles.. what were they called again? Mark V tanks and it's contemporaries, I believe? Seriously, it's been a hundred years, this shit's been solved for a while now,.