Armoured Fighting Vehicles

(asked on 15th March 2017) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the additional vehicle options are for the AJAX armoured vehicle programme.


Answered by
Harriett Baldwin Portrait
Harriett Baldwin
Shadow Minister (Business and Trade)
This question was answered on 20th March 2017

The AJAX family of vehicles has a common base platform with six variants performing different roles and providing a number of options for the Army:

AJAX - reconnaissance and strike

ARES - armoured personnel carrier

APOLLO - repair

ATLAS - recovery

ARGUS - engineering reconnaissance

ATHENA - command and control

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