According to the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence report "Departmental Overview 2019-20" - IOC of Ajax AFV is expected in June 2021, but in-service date has been moved to January 2021. Original IOC of Ajax was expected on 31 July 2020.
In 2014 MoD gived approval for AJAX to proceed with an expected Initial Operating Capability (IOC) date of 31 July 2020.
In 2020 MoD reports that IOC is now expected in June 2021, with a separate in-service date of January 2021, and that there has been no increase in the firm contract price of £3.5 billion.
The AJAX, formerly known as the Scout SV (Specialist Vehicle) was renamed in 2015 and is part of a family of Armoured Fighting Vehicles (AFVs).
AJAX will be a fully-digitised, tracked, medium weight core of the British Army’s deployable ISTAR capability and will providing a full suite of medium-armoured vehicles and capabilities.
Variants Of AJAX
There are six variants of AJAX which fulfill nine roles and the name can be applied to all of them but specifically to the turreted version.
- Ajax (turreted, reconnaissance and strike)
- Ares (reconnaissance and Armoured Personnel Carrier)
- Argus (engineer reconnaissance)
- Athena (command and control)
- Atlas (equipment support recovery)
- Apollo (equipment repair)
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