2022 Report details for project: Armour MBT 2025
| Project name | Armour MBT 2025 - there are 2 reports for this project: 2022, 2023 |
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| Organisation | MOD (D17 ) - see all reports for this organisation |
| Report year | 2022 (data is from September 2021) |
| Category | Military - see all reports for this category |
| Description: | The Armour Main Battle Tank Programme is the extension of the Army's Main Battle Tank capability as part of a balanced force, credible and employable against current and emerging threats until an extended out of service date out to at least 2040. This will be achieved through a series of projects to extend the life of the current platform to deliver Challenger 3. These projects will fall under the governance of the overall Armour Main Battle Tank Programme. They include addressing obsolescence, lethality and survivability. Mobility is being addressed through a separate pan-platform project. |
| DCA (RAG) | Amber |
| DCA text: | Compared to financial year 20/21-Q4, the IPA's DCA rating remained at Amber. This is primarily due to the following factors: The Defence in a Competitive Age Command Paper (CP411) published in March 2021 confirmed that the Army will invest around £1.3bn in our armoured capability by upgrading 148 of our main battle tanks to ensure the Challenger III will become one of the most protected and most lethal in Europe. The remaining fleet will be retired. Planning to realise this and explore opportunity for acceleration continues. |
| Start date | 2014-12-04 |
| End date | 2026-06-01 |
| Schedule text | Compared to 2021-Q4, the project end-date remained scheduled to finish on 01 June 2026. |
| Baseline | £65.55m |
| Forecast | £76.20m |
| Variance | 16.00% |
| Variance text: | The budget variance exceeds 5%. The Financial Year 21/22 forecast was £65.6M with the actual spend being £76.3M, giving a variance of £10.7M (a 16% positive variance to the original forecast of £65.6M). Most of the variance is due to a reprofile of the payment milestone associated with the Interim Design Review 2 being brought forward from Financial Year 22/23 to 21/22. |
| Whole Life Cost | £1,372.00m |
| WLCost text: | Compared to 2021-Q4, the projects Baseline Whole Life Cost decreased from 1407.14 (£m) to 1371.97 (£m). This is primarily due to the following factors: The financial position has changed since FY20/21 and was confirmed in the Full Business Case approved in Mar 21 as £1.422Bn. The new Approved Budgetary Limit now includes an additional £43M in the equipment programme (accounting for an increase in the demonstration and integration costs of a new ammunition nature) and a reduction in the support costs of £24M, that currently sits outside of the reported programme baseline whole-life cost of £1,371.966M. |
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| Sourcefile | IPA_2022.csv |
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