Moog showing off the production representative version of its RiWP turret at #IAV25 this week fitted an HMT Armoured Closed Cab and a Dingo 3

Both with Thales HVM/LMM missiles, one also with 30x113mm Bushmaster and 7.62mm machine gun. We saw it on a Ridgeback at #DVD24 last year

A Boxer for every occasion

1/3 Some nice line drawings of how the Ajax family will look in the MCO and PSO fits. Page 1 - Ajax and Athena.

MCO is the conventional warfare fit (think TES for TELIC, sort of thing) and PSO is peace support (think TES for HERRICK)

Not one you see every day - Challenger 2 with Track Width Mine Plough (TWMP) from Pearson Engineering, this one in Estonia being used for training on the TWMP capability with members of the AFV Schools Regiment from the RE group of the Combat Support Wing.

An old animation of the BR90 systems, including AVLB (Titan) launched (No.10, 11 and 12) and the bigger CSB capabilities.

Both being replaced under Project TYRO.

NEW BLOG POST

Not strictly new, this is one from the archives, given a refresh and republished

The Esarco 6×6 and 8×8 vehicles

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Atlas version of Ajax demonstrating towed recovery of other Ajax variants.

A nice British Army slide from a few years ago on what reliability growth trials are there to do. Figures quoted at the bottom relate to the acquisition of Warthog as a representative example.

Planning a longer primer on testing and trials, but still collecting info.

⚡️The 🇪🇺EU proposes to allocate 1 billion euros from frozen 🇷🇺Russian assets to the 🇺🇦Ukrainian defense industry for the production of Ukrainian weapons

Report from @hartpunkt that German LuWa programme to replace Wiesel weapons carriers is to be cancelled, owing to the proposed solution from Rheinmetall being radically out of budget. Here's hoping requirement can come back in some form soon.
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More #AjaxUpdate from recent weeks - vehicle level static and mobile ballistic qualification trials of modular armour system, and Collective Protection (COLPRO) trials. Signing off that everything stops what it should and protects as it should, all part of the acceptance signoffs

New to this Bluesky malarky, but not new to social media on AFVs. 10 year backlog of threads and discussions on X: x.com/JonHawkes275. My blog with primers and explainer posts: jonhawkes.wixsite.com/tanknologyin....

Slowly increasing content on this site, grateful for likes and follows.

(Part 2) It started as a thread on the UK's Titan AVLB and Project TYRO, but got so unwieldy I’ve made it a mini series. What is Titan and TYRO; why is it one of, if not the, most important requirements in the British Army (or any army); and why is it a critical requirement?

#AjaxUpdate: Over 150 Battlefield Missions (BFMs) now completed, with >41,000 km travelled and >53,000 rounds fired.

Live Firing and Observation Post BFMs including firing on the move done. ISTAR focused BFMs underway to close out Reliability Growth Confirmatory Testing (RGCT).

It started as a thread on the UK's Titan AVLB and Project TYRO, but got so unwieldy I’ve made it a mini series. What is Titan and TYRO; why is it one of, if not the, most important requirements in the British Army (or any army); and why us it a critical requirement for the UK?

A summary of the suppliers of US 155 mm artillery ammunition, including that being manufactured for Ukraine (28k rounds per month with target of 85k/mo. by 2025) #artillery #supplychain