The Ajax is an armored fighting vehicle finally entering service with the British Army after "serious development and production difficulties," which delayed delivery for nearly a decade. But the shambles is not yet over: now the human testing begins, and new problems have emerged, landing wetly at soldiers' feet. Behold the Chundertank, the "most advanced medium-weight armoured fighting vehicle on the planet."

About 30 soldiers became ill when training to use the armoured fighting vehicles over the weekend, and an investigation has been launched "out of an abundance of caution", the Ministry of Defence (MoD) said. Some emerged vomiting from the vehicles, while others were shaking after the military exercise on Salisbury Plain, in Wiltshire, according to The Times newspaper. It comes just

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