Delays to Ajax armoured vehicles risk national security, MPs warn

Public accounts committee says multibillion-pound programme has been beset by litany of failures'

The Ministry of Defence should fix or scrap its troubled Ajax armoured vehicle programme this year or risk compromising national security, an influential parliamentary committee has said.

The Ajax programme, intended to provide a state-of-the-art reconnaissance vehicle for the army, has already been running for 12 years and cost 3.2bn but has so far failed to deliver a single deployable vehicle.