The Ajax is a development of the ASCOD armoured fighting vehicles used by the Spanish Armed Forces and Austrian Armed Forces. The vehicles were originally developed by Steyr-Daimler-Puch Spezialfahrzeug and Santa Bárbara Sistemas in the early 1990s.

Ajax is an advanced, fully digitised, land vehicle system delivering transformational change in capability to the British Army. There are six variants in the Ajax family, all based upon a common base platform.

AJAX is the next-generation of Armoured Fighting Vehicles (AFV). Fully-digital and fully-integrated, it enables soldiers to ‘See First, Decide First, Act First’ on the modern battlefield.

Sep 19, 2024 · The latest capability drop of the Ajax vehicle delivered 43 land systems to the British Army, with additional upgrades to its armour and weaponry.

Nov 3, 2016 · 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 was originally known as the SCOUT Specialist Vehicle (SV) programme. The Ajax has an innovative design that gives additional protection against mine blasts.

Jan 22, 2025 · Ajax, the Army's new medium-sized armoured vehicle, is finally being delivered to units across the British Army. Elements of the Royal Armoured Corps and Royal Artillery have been supplied with the vehicle after an eight-year delay and a programme cost of £5bn.

Feb 8, 2025 · The Ajax is extremely versatile. There is a fully scalable, open electronic architecture, common base platform that can provide many different payloads as a fully modular armour design, adaptable to the changing threat environment,” GDLS UK said. Based on the Ajax IFV chassis, a number of future variants can be developed.

Apr 16, 2024 · According to GlobalData’s “The Global Military Land Vehicles Market 2023-2033” report, the UK is investing in one of the largest IFV programmes in the European region, acquiring 245 Ajax IFVs for $3.3bn (£2.64bn).

The AJAX programme includes six variants: AJAX, ARES, APOLLO, ATHENA, ATLAS and ARGUS. Each AJAX variant will be a highly-agile, tracked, medium-weight armoured fighting vehicle, providing British troops with state-of-the-art best-in-class protection.

Ajax IFV is a tracked armored fighting vehicle (AFV) developed by General Dynamics UK for the British Army. Formerly known as Scout SV (Specialist Vehicle), the Ajax is a new generation of armoured fighting vehicles comparable with the Germans Puma and Lynx IFVs, the Korean Redback IFV or the latest development of the Combat Vehicle 90, the ...