Armoured Fighting Vehicles: Military Exercises

(asked on 13th March 2024) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, when his Department last exercised deploying Army vehicles by rail.


Answered by
James Cartlidge Portrait
James Cartlidge
Minister of State (Ministry of Defence)
This question was answered on 21st March 2024

The Ministry of Defence regularly use rail to move Army vehicles. The most recent use of rail to transport Army vehicles was in Germany in 2023 during Exercise IRON STORM.

In April 2024, Exercise STEADFAST DEFENDER will see the British Army use rail to transport vehicles. This movement will occur across multiple countries.

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