current affairs Flashcards

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1
Q

what type of vehicle is the ajax?

what role does the ajax vehicle fulfils…

A

armed reconnaissance vehicle

  • to operate forward of friendly forces
  • collect intelligence using its advanced sensers and feed targeting data to the brigade
  • it avoids contact and if it encounters contact the ajax uses its armor to survive and disengage
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2
Q

what is the ajax fiasco?

how does the the ajax procurement program cost

A
  • the ajax originally was surpassed to enter service in 2017
  • 8 years later and after repeated safety warnings about its noise and vibrations the MOD declared it ready for initial operational capability and insisted it was safe for soldiers
  • but during its first major exercise in the Saulsbury planes 31 soldiers fell ill
  • this has forced the army to issue a DO NOT USE order contradicting its earlier statements

    why is it bad?
    this undermines soldiers confidence in there equipment therefore
    undermining there combat effectiveness as a whole

5-6 billion

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3
Q

how many regulars are there in the

army?

navy?

and RAF?

an total contracted personnel in the armed forces?

A

74k +4k Gurkhas

32k

30k

137k

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