Exclusive: Defence Secretary Ben Wallace is set to make a statement about the ill-fated Ajax programme, which has faced years in limbo due to technical faults.
Fresh speculation has been raised over the future of the Ajax armoured vehicle after Chancellor Jeremy Hunt today warned that no government department would be safe for cuts.
An eye-watering £3.2bn - the same cost of one of the Royal Navy s huge new aircraft carriers - on the Ajax armoured vehicles, prototypes of which have left soldiers with hearing damage.