As we pointed out over a decade ago,"armed forces have a habit of making the simple and cheap expensive and complicated",the four wheel drive variant of the Ox vehicle proposed herein,which shall be similar in size to some motorised quadcycles,shall be able to transport a driver and a medical attendant in addition to three recumbent casualties,seven if towing it's standard trailer (other potential payloads shall include ten infantrymen in patrol order or a,battalion level,Four Inch Mortar with it's crew and ammunition),at speeds of up to fifty miles per hour and is likely to cost as much as similar civilian vehicles,around fifteen thousand pounds sterling per unit.
Two Milrem THeMIS (sic) and three HORIBA MIRA VIKING Unmanned Ground Vehicles were recently purchased by the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory for five million pounds,for which several hundred Oxen and trailers could have been purchased,each THeMIS vehicle carries just two recumbent casualties at one quarter the speed of the Ox and shall take four times as long to get them to life saving medical assistance and require fourteen vehicles to match the casualty evacuation rate of just one Ox and trailer,thereby exposing British soldiers to the risk of a slow and painful death at the hands of their own,transformational,killer robots.
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