The long search for new tracked vehicles brings together several replacement efforts, including TRACER, CVR(T), and a turretless Warrior proposal. FV432's upgraded name is corrected to Bulldog during the exchange. A Warrior derivative is recalled as too expensive to proceed with. One view credits the older equipment's continued usefulness and the difficulty of replacing it at an acceptable unit cost. A competing criticism concerns the preference for a supplier other than BAE when CV90 was available. These related histories explain cumulative delay across several programs.
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Why older British tracked vehicles remained in service
Repeated cancellations and cost objections provide the background to Ajax and the survival of older tracked vehicles.