Shiny new British Army tank unable to reverse over 20 cm high sleeping plods!

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They should have ordered them from Italy - I believe that their tanks work great in reverse

There seem to be any number of problems with this order - which is doubtless being (un)fulfilled by Capitalism and greed - see HERE and HERE.

 

[stockhausen]

So what? The point was that they wanted end users to test it - so these designs have to be proper designs and proper prototypes need to be built. Who wants to pay for the 7 designs that don't make it?

Remind me; how many that don't make it backwards over a 20 cm high obstruction are the Government paying for?