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. Artec is owned by Krauss-Maffei Wegmann GmbH, Rheinmetall MAN Military Vehicles GmbH (RMMV) and Rheinmetall …

Last year the MOD spent £870 million with Welsh businesses. The British Army will receive 589 Ajax vehicles which will come in six variants and replace the Combat Vehicle Reconnaissance (Tracked). Ajax army vehicle going through final stage testing at General Dynamics factory in Wales. Re: Ajax Armoured Vehicle Variants (British Army) Post by Lord Jim » Wed Mar 18, 2020 3:19 pm Obvious the ASCOD 3 as it currently exists is not going to have all the toys we are fitting to the Ajax, but the important parts are such as engine, transmission, armour package and so on.

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. Boxer is an eight wheeled multi-role armoured wheeled combat vehicle available in a number of variants. The first platforms were delivered in February 2019, with deliveries continuing until 2025.

The new British armored vehicles are planned to remain in service for at least 30 years. 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). 22 September 2018. Vehicle Details. The programme includes six variants: AJAX, ARES, APOLLO, ATHENA, ATLAS and ARGUS.

Each AJAX variant will be a highly-agile, tracked, medium- weight armoured fighting vehicles, providing British troops with state-of-the-art best-in-class protection.

AJAX Gets New CT40 Turret New turret for the AJAX armoured vehicle will provide soldiers with unparalleled situational awareness.

Ajax (turreted, reconnaissance and strike) Ares (reconnaissance and Armoured Personnel Carrier) Argus (engineer reconnaissance) Athena (command and control)

The AJAX programme includes six variants, with more under consideration: AJAX, (Scout/ISTAR), 245 vehicles, ARES (specialist troop transport), 93 vehicles, APOLLO, (Recovery vehicle with crane) 50 vehicles, ATHENA, (Commander’s C4ISTAR vehicle)112 vehicles, ATLAS, (Recovery vehicle) 38 vehicles and ARGUS, (engineer vehicle) 51 vehicles.

The Ajax platform is promising to deliver a slew of capabilities to the British Army and modernise its land vehicle fleet.

In September 2018 at the DVD defense exhibition in Millbrook United Kingdom, General Dynamics has displayed four variants of AJAX program including the AJAX intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance (ISTAR) vehicle, APOLLO used to tow battlefield damaged vehicles and lift heavy sub-assemblies, ATLAS tracked Armored Recovery Vehicle (ARV) and ARES formerly called PMRS Protected Mobility Reconnaissance vehicle…

Four variants of AJAX were on display at DVD2018 (Photo: Anita Hawser) Lockheed Martin UK has successfully delivered the first production turrets for the Army’s new AJAX vehicles to prime contractor General Dynamics Land Systems. T he Ajax armored reconnaissance vehicle is a baseline variant of this family. It is armed with a 40 mm cannon …

Harry Lye checks out the different variants of the platform and the unique roles they will play in the army’s future. … 22 September 2018. The new vehicle will give the army enhanced intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition and reconnaissance (ISTAR) capabilities. Re: Ajax Armoured Vehicle Variants (British Army) Post by Lord Jim » Sat Dec 01, 2018 1:12 am Regarding the turret ring, that is what I was referring to, design from scratch an module with the necessary or adapt an existing design, like used on the new German cavalry variant. How many variants of AJAX are there? The six variants in the Ajax programme are Athena, Ajax, Ares, Apollo, Atlas and Argus, providing a full suite of medium armoured vehicles and capabilities.

Watch Ares (part of the Ajax family of vehicles) put through its paces by the Army .

AJAX represents the future of Armoured Fighting Vehicles (AFV) for the Australian Army, providing best-in-class protection and survivability, reliability and mobility and all-weather Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Recognition (ISTAR) capabilities. Ajax was originally known as the SCOUT Specialist Vehicle (SV) programme.

Rolls-Royce signed a £57 million deal to build the MTU V8 199 TE21 engines for all the first batch of 589 Ajax vehicles and variants. Ajax family of vehicles also includes five other variants, named Ares, Athena, Atlas, Apollo and Argus which are designed to cover roles ranging from troop carrying to recovery and command and control. General Dynamics Land Systems–UK is delivering 589 AJAX vehicles across six variants to the British Army.