Mentions:
1: Lord Lisvane (XB - Life peer) Forces around the world are investing heavily in AI capabilities but fighting is still largely a human - Speech Link
2: Earl Attlee (Con - Excepted Hereditary) The drone detects an enemy armoured battalion group but the AFVs are tightly parked in a square in the - Speech Link
3: Lord Stevens of Birmingham (XB - Life peer) pragmatically applying core UNCLOS requirements to the IMO’s four-part typology of autonomous maritime vehicles - Speech Link
4: Lord Mitchell (Lab - Life peer) I will confine my comments to the section dealing with procurement, innovation and talent. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: John Spellar (Lab - Warley) The Minister rightly points to the ability to sustain fighting. - Speech Link
2: James Cartlidge (Con - South Suffolk) As to procurement rules supporting SMEs such as those in North Devon, our new integrated procurement - Speech Link
3: James Heappey (Con - Wells) the force that we maintained for the cold war and all its enablement was not necessary when we were fighting - Speech Link
4: Stephanie Peacock (Lab - Barnsley East) Given that only 25% of armoured vehicles have been produced, are the Government on target to meet that - Speech Link
5: Alec Shelbrooke (Con - Elmet and Rothwell) for his procurement review. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Mark Francois (Con - Rayleigh and Wickford) Why are some of the Army’s fighting vehicles 60 years old? - Speech Link
2: John Spellar (Lab - Warley) of the specialist engineering companies in the midlands supply Formula 1, civil aviation and premium vehicles - Speech Link
3: Alec Shelbrooke (Con - Elmet and Rothwell) Since the second world war, nobody thought there would be an armoured vehicle and troop battle with trench - Speech Link
4: Emma Lewell-Buck (Lab - South Shields) Our Army lacks infantry fighting vehicles, multiple launch rocket systems, Challenger tanks and armoured - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None increasing spending on defence equipment to £288.6 billion over the next decade, and introducing a new procurement - Speech Link
2: Lord Stirrup (XB - Life peer) My Lords, yesterday in another place a Conservative Member suggested to the Minister for Defence Procurement - Speech Link
3: Earl of Minto (Con - Excepted Hereditary) and submarines either on order or under construction, and I have seen some of them; we have got 1,200 armoured - Speech Link
4: Earl of Minto (Con - Excepted Hereditary) My Lords, as I have said before, modern war fighting is as much about capability as numbers. - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: None the full-scale invasion, and our Javelins helped brave Ukrainians devastate Putin’s menacing 40-mile armoured - Speech Link
2: None All of this helped to degrade Russia’s once formidable fighting force, with Putin’s losses amounting - Speech Link
3: None That is why, earlier today, my honourable friend the Minister for Defence Procurement launched the UK - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: James Cartlidge (Con - South Suffolk) be our pending munitions strategy—a top priority given our need to replenish weapons stocks to war fighting - Speech Link
2: Maria Eagle (Lab - Garston and Halewood) That was supposed to see vehicles in service in 2017, but now they will not be on operational deployment - Speech Link
3: James Cartlidge (Con - South Suffolk) Telford, which is making not only Boxer but Challenger 3, two of the three key components of our future armoured - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) We were the first to send main battle tanks with our Challenger squadron, plus 500 armoured vehicles - Speech Link
2: Grant Shapps (Con - Welwyn Hatfield) I think—again, this is off the top of my head—there have been 27 rounds of contract procurement so far - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Earl of Minto (Con - Excepted Hereditary) Most recently, its assaults over the ground in Avdiivka saw it lose a further 200 armoured vehicles and - Speech Link
2: Lord Coaker (Lab - Life peer) It cannot be right that there are so many problems in defence procurement, again notwithstanding what - Speech Link
3: Lord Dannatt (XB - Life peer) We would not be upgrading only 148 Challenger 2 tanks or taking out of service the Warrior armoured infantry - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: Earl Attlee (CON - Excepted Hereditary) fighting vehicles to Ukraine. - Speech Link
2: Baroness Goldie (CON - Life peer) The lack of armoured vehicles at the 9 May Victory Day parade supports reports suggesting that nearly - Speech Link
Mentions:
1: James Heappey (CON - Wells) In addition, more than 10,000 armoured vehicles have been destroyed.However, the value of today’s debate - Speech Link
2: Luke Pollard (LAB - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport) on new drone technologies, including counter-drone measures such as electronic warfare systems and armoured - Speech Link
3: Luke Pollard (LAB - Plymouth, Sutton and Devonport) Gentleman will know, is a huge amount of waste in MOD procurement. - Speech Link
4: Bob Seely (CON - Isle of Wight) we drove past were medical vehicles. - Speech Link