Aye, that will sit in storage for several years, [as 11 out of the 25 already are] and won't be flying until 2007. Meanwhile, the MoD is selling off the eight H.C.III/ MH47E Chinook helicopters operated as SAS delivery aircraft [fitted with terrain-following radar and equipped for aerial refueling] to pay for the Apaches.
And believe it or not are developing a ceramic/plastic tank ;p In tests it survived hits from a challenger 2 .
There are some REAL interesting U.S. developmental programs for robotic tank killers, essentially a ground-based equivalent of the Predator UAVs. And there are possibilities of operating a tank with a one-man crew, also possible with the Swedish turretless STRV-103 *S-tank* of the 1970s-'80s.
But those developments are down the road a ways.
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