Inside the CT40 supercannon
The Ajax vehicle in the UK is being fitted with the CT40 which has also been sold to other NATO partners. (Picture: MoD/Crown Copyright)
The CT40, which is being rolled out on Ajax vehicles across the British Army, is a cannon honed by recent combat experiences and has been designed to meet the defence challenges of a new era of warfare.
The CT40 is the British Army’s first newly qualified cannon and ammunition system since the 1960s. Built in France, it has a number of revolutionary features which have been honed by learning lessons from the war in Ukraine. It has clearly impressed the UK’s Ministry of Defence which has ordered more than 500 units of the gun. The weapon will be fitted to all six variants of the new Ajax vehicles which are important cornerstones of the British Army’s new evolution of force.
The development comes despite delays in getting both the Ajax and the CT40 ready to face the world, and
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