Ajax Vehicles: Procurement
(asked on 7th June 2021) - View Source
Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many capability drops there are in the delivery of the Ajax Scout; how many vehicles are in each of those drops; what the breakdown is of different variants in each of those drops; and what the planned (a) start and (b) finishing date is for each of those drops.
There are five capability drops (0,1,2,3,4). Capability Drop 4 will be the final build standard and all vehicles will be retrofitted to this standard.
Variant Description | Variant | Total | Drop 0 | Drop 1 | Drop 2 | Drop 3 | Drop 4 |
Recce Scout | AJAX | 245 |
| 21 | 25 | 72 | 127 |
Recce Sp APC | ARES | 93 | 6 | 9 | 18 | 25 | 35 |
Recce ES Repair | APOLLO | 50 |
| 7 | 9 | 13 | 21 |
Recce ES Recovery | ATLAS | 38 |
| 7 | 7 | 14 | 10 |
C2 (Command & Control) | ATHENA | 112 |
| 6 | 16 | 27 | 63 |
Eng Recce | ARGUS | 51 |
| 2 | 11 | 4 | 34 |
Total |
| 589 | 6 | 52 | 86 | 155 | 290 |
Drop 0 is complete with an on-going rolling programme from Drop 1 through to Drop 4. Drop 1 commenced mid 2020 with Drop 4 currently planned to complete by the end of 2024. The Ajax delivery schedules are currently being reviewed by the Ministry of Defence and GDLS-UK.