{"id":4830,"date":"2025-12-18T14:55:40","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T14:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=4830"},"modified":"2025-12-18T14:55:40","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T14:55:40","slug":"uk-government-halts-ajax-trial-after-soldier-falls-ill-in-another-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/?p=4830","title":{"rendered":"UK government halts Ajax trial after soldier falls ill in another vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The government has paused all testing of Ajax armoured vehicles after another soldier was injured during safety trials.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Three separate investigations are currently being conducted after around 30 soldiers became ill from noise and vibration during a training exercise in November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">Twenty-three vehicles used on the exercise were already suspended for use due to the injuries, with the results of inspections on them to be published in the New Year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">In a written statement to Parliament, defence minister Luke Pollard said the latest report of a soldier becoming ill from vibration came during additional safety trials intended to provide more information for the investigations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-component=\"text-block\">\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The defence minister said the soldier did not require hospitalisation, and the vehicle they were in &#8211; which is not one of the 23 already suspended &#8211; is undergoing a &#8220;thorough investigation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The multi-million pound Ajax vehicles, made in Merthyr Tydfil by General Dynamics, were originally due to enter service in 2017, delivering 589 vehicles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-9a00e533-0 eZyhnA\">The \u00a36.3bn programme has been beset by problems and repeated delays, as noise and vibration have injured soldiers who have tested the vehicles.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>#government #halts #Ajax #trial #soldier #falls #ill #vehicle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government has paused all &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4831,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[242],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4830"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4830\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/microvibenews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}