2023 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 | 2023 (data is from September 2022) |
| Category | Military - see all reports for this category |
| Description: | The Armour Main Battle Tank Programme will deliver the Challenger 3 capability. Challenger 3 will be Defence's only guaranteed, 24 hr, all weather, mobile anti-tank capability. This programme will modernise and improve the British Army's Main Battle Tanks to the standard needed on today's battlefield. Upgrades include enhanced survivability; greater lethality, improved surveillance and target acquisition as well as removing obsolescence. |
| DCA (RAG) | Amber |
| DCA text: | Compared to financial year 21/22-Q4, the DCA rating at 22/23-Q4 remained at Amber (SRO rating). This is primarily due to the following factors.Global supply chain risks and key supplier issues that could impact delivery, and resource shortfalls and challenges to recruit the required skill and experience levels. |
| Start date | 2014-12-04 |
| End date | 2031-05-22 |
| Schedule text | Compared to financial year 21/22-Q4, the project's end-date at 22/23-Q4 increased from 2026-06-01 to 2031-05-22. This is primarily due to the following factors. The end-date of June 2026 reflected the obsolesce scope of the original Challenger 2 Life Extension Project when it was established in 2015. This should have been adjusted in 2019 when the scope of the programme was increased to deliver a genuine capability uplift to Challenger 2. This effectively reset the Performance, Cost and Time envelope of the programme, and was further refined through the revised assessment phase and Full Business Case submission in November 2020. The end-date of May 2031 reflects Full Operating Capability being delivered by November 2030 at P50 confidence. |
| Baseline | £107.86m |
| Forecast | £87.87m |
| Variance | -19.00% |
| Variance text: | The budget variance exceeds 5%. This is primarily due to the following factors: Delays to Epsom Armour have impacted trials, ammunition integration work and along with supply chain issues, it has been necessary to defer payments until milestones are satisfied now expected in the Financial Year 23/24 |
| Whole Life Cost | £1,435.00m |
| WLCost text: | Compared to financial year 21/22-Q4, the project's departmental-agree Whole Life Cost at 22/23-Q4 increased from 1372m. to 1435m. This is primarily due to the following factors. Reprofiling into future years, also the recent initial pre-negotiated Epsom proposal being higher than originallyestimated |
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| Sourcefile | IPA_2023.csv |
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