Armoured Fighting Vehicles (AFVs) will remain a fundamental element of transformed land forces in the 2025 time period; the cost of their acquisition and possession will be under control, and they will be easier to project. Future AFVs will come into service post-2020 to replace the current inventory; the latter are globally satisfactory and will remain in service for about 15 years, but the penalty for the medium capability range is that they will need costly renovation programmes.
