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Britain will join France and Germany in setting up a new armaments co-operation agency, the Government announced yesterday. The three countries will also work together to develop a new armoured troop-carrier to enter service in 2007.

The British army needs about 2,000 of the new Multi-Role Armoured Vehicles to replace the ageing FV-430 series of tracked vehicles, known, derisively as "skips", and also the 1970s Combat Vehicle Reconnaissance series including Spartan and Scimitar. Christopher Bellamy

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