Armoured Fighting Vehicles: Weapons

(asked on 10th January 2023) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, pursuant to the Answer of 21 December 2022 to Question 109432 on Ajax Vehicles: Weapons, whether the cannons delivered to his Department as part of the Cased Telescopic Cannon programme and not be fitted to Ajax armoured vehicles will be fitted to any other armoured vehicles in use by the Armed Forces.


Answered by
Alex Chalk Portrait
Alex Chalk
Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice
This question was answered on 17th January 2023

The Army will retain a quantity of the surplus cannons to provide spares for the cannons in the Ajax fleet. There are no current plans to integrate the cannon onto any other armoured vehicle, but the Army continues to evaluate its options.

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