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A Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) official at the IQPC International Armoured Vehicles conference in London today said that while they had “some sympathy for industry covering excessive supply chain challenges” caused by COVID-19 and cyber hacking, manufacturers only reacted after feeling an “impact.”
The official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, declined to discuss which specific systems have been captured and passed over to intelligence groups and industry, but the revelation provides new evidence of the ways in which the UK is actively gaining first-hand insight to Kremlin technologies.
A British defense committee meeting heard about concerns brought on by the war in Ukraine, the state of British tanks (some Ukraine-bound) and a potential recovery for the Ajax recon vehicle program.
In-depth: The British army has announced its 'Future Soldier' modernisation programme, the most radical transformation of the military in decades.
Under new plans Germany will become one of the Army’s “land regional hubs”, with hundreds of tanks and soldiers expected to return to the…