Private Eye reports that the Ministry of Defence still does not know how to fix the noise and vibration problems in its Ajax armoured vehicles. In the wake of a Public Accounts Committee demand that they either fix it or abandon the programme, the MoD has appointed a barrister to find out where it all went wrong. It seems to me that their priority should rather be to call on experts on vibration to establish the root of the trouble. For instance, consulting engineers Arup diagnosed the instability in London's Millennium Bridge and provided a fix for it.
It is unfortunate that the army chose as a name for their 21st century armoured vehicle that which provided a pun for a privy in Shakespeare's day.
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