Armoured Fighting Vehicles

Willie Rennie
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many armoured vehicles of each type were classified as (a) in service, (b) fit for purpose and (c) not in service on the latest date for which figures are available.

Mr. Quentin Davies
The numbers of armoured vehicles of each type classified as ‘in service', ‘fit for purpose' and ‘out of service' are provided in the following table.

Significant quantities of Mastiff, Vector, Bulldog and Snatch are currently in the process of withdrawal to the UK following the cessation of operations in Iraq.

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|Vehicle                      |In service|Fit for purpose|Out of service|
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|AS90                         |145       |132            |0             |
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|Challenger 2                 |345       |261            |40            |
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|CRARRV                       |81        |70             |0             |
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|CVR(T)                       |1,052     |928            |116           |
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|FV 430 (Mk2 and Bulldog)     |1,110     |658            |290           |
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|Fuchs                        |11        |11             |0             |
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|Saxon                        |147       |147            |0             |
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|Titan                        |33        |24             |0             |
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|Trojan                       |33        |25             |0             |
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|Warrior                      |793       |552            |0             |
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|Mastiff                      |271       |134            |0             |
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|Panther                      |401       |334            |0             |
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|Ridgeback                    |118       |73             |0             |
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|Snatch 2 (including variants)|653       |358            |0             |
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|Vector                       |192       |87             |0             |
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|Viking                       |116       |86             |0             |
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