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SOLOMON HUGHES reports on the revolving door from the British army to defence corporations like General Dynamics, whose latest £3.5bn vehicle is an unusable clunker

THE British army’s latest armoured vehicle is performing so badly that inspectors think a “successful delivery” is “unachievable.”
But the US firm behind the failing armoured vehicle did hire one of the army’s top generals. So not everyone is doing badly from the flawed £3.5 billion vehicle.
US defence giant General Dynamics is selling the Ajax armoured fighting vehicles to the British army.
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