Comments by "Jammy Dodger" (@JammyDodger45) on "'Troubled' Ajax armoured vehicle could still be another 18 months from service" video.

GD aren't to blame. The MoD added literally dozens of 'enhancements' to the requirements so the vehicle weight and centre of gravity rocketed without any changes you the suspension and drives to compensate and it's that which produced the issues. The MoD is, as ever, not up to a procurement task.
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@tankie2ndrtr - if a requirement is not in the original scope and that requirement ups the weight of the vehicle by circa 25% then the suspension design will not cope with it. That's down to the MoD changing things not GD. This isn't an issue of track tensioning, we're not talking about running a Chally 1 over Soltau and getting a bit of track slap. When the C1 became the C2 did they stick with the same drives and track or was it redesigned to cope with the different mass and dynamics? Should that cost have been born by Royal Ordnance Factory as they built the C1?
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The Ajax was designed and approved at 30tonnes, it's going to enter service at 38tonnes. That isn't adding just a couple of extras. If (and it's a big if) it gets the Trophy defence suite as recently requested by the MoD it will be 42tonnes. How do you think that is GDs fault? They designed it, tested it, had it client approved at 30tn and then the client added 8 (and potentially 12) tonnes to it and is surprised it doesn't work as planned! I've got a very fast estate car, if I head back the factory it was built in I can do 196mph on the autobahn, it's specced to carry 600kg in its boot, if I decide to carry 1000kg and it handles like 💩 and won't go above 110mph is that Audis fault or mine?
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