MPs last night demanded action over the Army’s ageing armoured tanks – saying some of them dated back to when ‘Elvis was the Christmas No 1’.
In a damning report, they warned that the Army’s current capability was so ‘obsolescent and outgunned’ that it could cost lives.
And the cross-party Commons Defence Committee raised fears that the UK’s armoured forces were at ‘a very serious risk’ of being outmatched by potential adversaries of similar size.
MPs say some of the Army's armoured tanks date back to when Elvis Presley was number one
Tory MP Tobias Ellwood, the committee chairman, said: ‘Over the past two decades, the Ministry of Defence has allowed our armoured fighting vehicles’ capability to atrophy at an astounding and alarming rate.