Defence Equipment: Land Mines

(asked on 11th December 2023) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many (a) minefield breaching systems and (b) Trojan armoured engineer vehicles remain in use by the army; and whether he has plans to (i) retire and (ii) dispose of existing minefield breaching systems.


Answered by
James Cartlidge Portrait
James Cartlidge
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
This question was answered on 19th December 2023

There are three types of minefield breaching systems currently in use with the British Army and there are no current plans to retire or dispose of any of them.

As per the annual published statistics on Armed Forces’ Equipment and Formations, there are currently 32 Trojan platforms in service. The latest publication of these statistics can be found here: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/uk-armed-forces-equipment-and-formations-2023.

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