Here's The Deadly Cannon that will be installed on UK Ajax Armoured Vehicles 

My new fav weapon. It's ridiculously advanced and potent for 40mm. After watching what 25mm Bushmasters have done to Tanks and APC's in Ukraine I've definitely changed views that a mid-size caliber is just way more versatile (bunkers / foxholes / tanks / drones w/ 75 degree inclination which is unheard of).

They need to build them in Britain and restart the British gun Industry.

Right On Go Army!

03:57 There is a steel slug variant, but the ammunition you show us is airburst munition to be used against UAVs and helicopters.

When war comes the UK will have a problem. It has very little strategic weapons manufacturing autonomy remaining. In a crisis it can't even organize PPE equipment, what hope complex weapons?

Thank you France for providing something we are not allowed to manufacture ourselves anymore.

The telescopic ammunition is alleged to be better in terms of ammunition size and storage. The new mechanical-digital movement of the gun presents an opportunity for better accuracy on quick-moving targets or hitting many different targets in a short amount of time. When it comes to simple brutality, armour penetration, range, and firepower the Bofors 40mm L/70 gun still rules to roast with around 50% higher performance than the CT 40mm gun with 30-year-old ammunition and around 125% better performance with current experimental ammunition as well as twice the effective and more than twice the effective maximum range with comparable ammunition velocities. To be fair the Bofors L/70 gun commonly uses 40×365mmR cartridges whereas the CT 40mm gun uses 40×255MM Case Telescoped cartridges.

I'm sorry but if you look at Sweden and then look at the UK, it's hard to understand that the UK can produce such advanced stuff as you do. It's the same with America, both the UK and USA look almost look like developing countries compared to the Nordic countries and a lot of European countries like Germany for example. Your roads and built quality of houses and just about everything is like traveling back in time compared to us.

It's of little use in a peer on peer war, if we do not have full production facilities here in GB.

CV9040 says hello. Sweds been doing this for 34 years already.

Very welcomed news, now they aught to develop a Depleted Uranium variant of the APFSDS round to give the CT40 a self-sharpening armour penetration effect. 👍

Wow, Ajax, the ultra-successful UK armaments program will get a new cannon? That's great! Our grandchildren need some mature wapons systems around the 2070s ...

i would not bank on this post as the labour gov is now in charge they prob issue ww2 .303 instead

What makes this one deadly as opposed to other combat vehicle cannons?

Don't know wtf that HEAT animation was about!

The French "Jaguar" is already equipped with this gun.

Imagine just staying home and not go fight in other countries so that corporations cant make money......

Seeing what the 25mm Bushmaster cannon on the M2 Bradley can do to Russian tanks & AFV's since the first Gulf War onwards, you really wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of what this can do. I imagine DU ammunition will be introduced for it at some point too.

The cannon will be fitted on vehicles used for screening and recon tasks, however the infantry Boxer and Ajax are fitted with 50 calibre machine guns. The war in Ukraine is showing us that a good cannon is ideal to "Brass up" (Supress) an objective before the final infantry assault and to actually fight the vehicle. This cannon I understand will not be there. I would have been more impressed if the ammunition for this mid calibre cannon was programmable for defeating FPV drones and dug in infantry but no sign of this. Over £4 Billion spent on the programme with 44 vehicles delivered to date is shocking. The war in Ukraine is showing us just how high the attrition rate is for modern armoured vehicles and the days when we could afford to have key components manufactured overseas must be numbered. Barrels need replacing!

I'm struggling to think what this can achieve that a drone can't

Well, a cannon not deadly or lethal is what? Just a pipe?...🤷

Ajax will never replace the CVRT they are two completely different platforms it’s like replacing your car with a lorry.

How does 40mm HEAT compare with a 30mm HEAT? Compare like with like!

If you can keep it working.

Aim left of target

Ajax.. Why the un sexy name

The Royal navy pronounce "Ajax" as "Ayax" , perhaps the Army brass also do so .