I n a stealth move fitting of an announcement it wants to hide, the government has come up with a “do nothing” solution to a desperate military need as feeble as the weapon itself is obsolete. The government is going to carry on with making the Ajax armoured reconnaisance vehicle that’s almost a decade late, massively over budget and for which there is no longer any military use. The British army was supposed to take delivery of 589 new and networked vehicles, to give it technological edge for decades to come, as a replacement for the venerable warrior armoured personnel carrier that had been in service since the 1980s. Back then it made sense to have a big tracked tank-like machine that could take a section of infantry soldiers and blast the enemy with a 30mm cannon. Ajax was due for delivery in 2017. Its use was questionable then. But in the age of drone warfare it is now almost entirely obsolete.…