Alas is just another event in the FRES programme incompetence and mismanagement. The FRES program was over-ambitious and grossly un affordable and was reduced down to fewer variants of which the Scout (now AJAX) is the sorry result. The millions of pounds spent on staff officer wages alone over the last 2 decades is a scandal. The UK's AFV fleet procurement is a disaster that competes with all the other recent procurement fiascos to be the worst. The heart of the problem is that the programs take so many years that no one is in post at the start and finish so no one is accountable.
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