The Ministry of Defence has declined to say how many of each Boxer variant have been delivered to the Army, calling the information commercially and operationally sensitive, according to an answer given in Parliament.
Ben Obese-Jecty, the Conservative member for Huntingdon, asked for a breakdown by variant of the contractually delivered Boxer fleet to date, following an answer of 8 September.
Luke Pollard, the Minister for Defence Readiness and Industry, said: “I refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave him on 18 December 2025 to Question 100025, which sets out the total number of Boxer vehicles contracted for by variant. It is not possible to provide a breakdown by variant of the Boxer vehicles delivered to date, as this information is commercially and operationally sensitive.”
The department has therefore published what it has ordered by variant while withholding what it has received by variant, which leaves the balance between infantry carriers, command vehicles, ambulances and specialist versions in the delivered fleet unknown.
In a separate answer the same day, Mr Pollard was asked when the review of programme performance for the Armour Main Battle Tank Programme would be complete. He said: “The review of programme performance for the Armour Main Battle Tank Programme forms part of the programme’s ongoing reapproval process. Under current plans, the outcome of this process is expected during Financial Year 2026-27.”
A reapproval outcome inside the current financial year gives a window closing at the end of March, and no narrower date was offered.
Britain rejoined the Boxer programme in 2018 after leaving it in 2003, and the vehicle is built under licence by Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land at Telford and WFEL at Stockport. Orders now run to more than six hundred vehicles across infantry carrier, specialist carrier, command and ambulance variants, the four base types from which the Army’s mechanised infantry brigades are being equipped.
The Armour Main Battle Tank Programme covers Challenger 3, the rebuild of 148 Challenger 2 hulls around a new turret and a 120mm smoothbore gun, also being carried out by Rheinmetall BAE Systems Land at Telford.
