[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @MilitaryBanter fill your boots fill your boots posts on X about ajax, has been, units, philip knowles the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1898290184/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXXXX +4,599% - X Month XXXXXXXXX +1,169% - X Months XXXXXXXXX +239% - X Year XXXXXXXXX -XX% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::1898290184/posts_active)  - X Week X +80% - X Month XX -XX% - X Months XX +171% - X Year XXX -XX% ### Followers: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1898290184/followers)  - X Week XXXXXX +1.60% - X Month XXXXXX +1.80% - X Months XXXXXX +3.90% - X Year XXXXXX +6.80% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1898290184/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [stocks](/list/stocks) [finance](/list/finance) [pga golfers](/list/pga-golfers) [countries](/list/countries) [celebrities](/list/celebrities) [musicians](/list/musicians) **Social topic influence** [ajax](/topic/ajax) #13, [has been](/topic/has-been) #415, [units](/topic/units) #21, [philip knowles](/topic/philip-knowles), [cyprus](/topic/cyprus), [the project](/topic/the-project), [if you](/topic/if-you), [staff](/topic/staff), [taylor swift](/topic/taylor-swift), [art](/topic/art) **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@marcinmare79140](/creator/undefined) [@izzywestbury](/creator/undefined) [@alistaircarns](/creator/undefined) [@timkaraga](/creator/undefined) [@robbieg72141131](/creator/undefined) [@team_snafu](/creator/undefined) [@lukepollard](/creator/undefined) [@spiciersubmemes](/creator/undefined) [@tomtugendhat](/creator/undefined) [@pansarvarnslav1](/creator/undefined) [@idkwidlool](/creator/undefined) [@shloppythirds](/creator/undefined) [@rakordeon88393](/creator/undefined) [@balmer_tim](/creator/undefined) [@ltsarcasm](/creator/undefined) [@always_boots](/creator/undefined) [@qincorrect](/creator/undefined) [@xom_c2](/creator/undefined) [@dmbrookfield](/creator/undefined) [@utbdoug969](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [General Dynamics Corporation (GD)](/topic/$gd) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "Maybe because Ajax is a joke" [X Link](https://x.com/MilitaryBanter/status/1996361937920410082) 2025-12-03T23:32Z 90K followers, 12K engagements "Anything that touches Ajax" [X Link](https://x.com/MilitaryBanter/status/1643182874374414339) 2023-04-04T09:25Z 90K followers, 43.4K engagements "RIP Private Philip Knowles of A (Norfolk) Company the 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment was tragically killed on XX September 2022 in the Eastern Sovereign Base Area Cyprus. Missed and loved by all" [X Link](https://x.com/MilitaryBanter/status/1722242171632562603) 2023-11-08T13:18Z 90K followers, 25.8K engagements "Cant make it up managers from GD mocking Ajax crews for incompetence causes the issues" [X Link](https://x.com/MilitaryBanter/status/1996272940610879566) 2025-12-03T17:38Z 90K followers, 127.7K engagements "I am an anonymous General Dynamics Employee (ex army) I've seen your recent post about the AJAX. The project being X years overdue is not even half of it: - Vehicles regularly come off the production line with circa XXX faults on them. - We can't even build the vehicles to meet the test standard which we came up with ourselves. If the Army finds too many failures they will either change the test so that the vehicle passes every time or the management will scurry off to the civil servants from DE&S that work on site to ask them to sign a "concession" for the vehicle to leave the factory and" [X Link](https://x.com/MilitaryBanter/status/1996330350889357562) 2025-12-03T21:27Z 90K followers, 339.6K engagements "Hi mate. IF you post this Could it be annon please. Units have recently had GD employees on site inspecting and testing the AJAX fleet. They have been 'removing data' and inspecting vehicles. Stating that things like drivers and commander not using seat belts or sitting in the seat correctly is part of the issue not the vehicle. Stating that they have found bolts loose so no wonder it's vibrating. ( bolts that they fitted vibrated loose and dropped out whilst crews are driving). They have been taking vehicles out on 'test drives' with vibration equipment covering about 5km at low speed gentle" [X Link](https://x.com/MilitaryBanter/status/1996355265914872105) 2025-12-03T23:06Z 90K followers, 86.9K engagements "please keep this anonymous. Id like to let you know that my ******** works for general dynamics. I sent him a screenshot of the whistleblower post you did yesterday. Today he has gone into work meetings are being held with staff and they are trying to hunt down the whistleblower" [X Link](https://x.com/MilitaryBanter/status/1996544385006055802) 2025-12-04T11:37Z 90K followers, 40.1K engagements "Ajax needs a theme tune Shake It Off Taylor Swift The Sound of Silence Simon & Garfunkel Good Vibrations The Beach Boys" [X Link](https://x.com/MilitaryBanter/status/1996578787589234974) 2025-12-04T13:54Z 90K followers, 8940 engagements "(anon). I was at the ATDU a few years back on a visit to see the Ajax units that were in early stage acceptance trials. The view I was told from the embedded GDUK team of engineers (or at least those in charge) was that they saw the medical discharges and H&S issues from Ajax as grossly exaggerated if not entirely fabricated by MOD. They were adamant on pressing on with pushing the units into Army service without any revisions or much scrutiny. My impression was that they had no intention of taking any of the problems back to GDUK nor pushing fixes to the production line" [X Link](https://x.com/MilitaryBanter/status/1997246491878977587) 2025-12-06T10:07Z 90K followers, 15.3K engagements "I'm also ex REME We used to sit next to the test track and each pass we would pick up fod that had fallen off the vehicle. There would be a massive pile mate and we'd make a game on who could gather the most" [X Link](https://x.com/MilitaryBanter/status/1997294284782092439) 2025-12-06T13:17Z 90K followers, 209K engagements "Why is Ajax still used so heavily in Army ads Also does "advanced" have a 2nd meaning I'm not aware of" [X Link](https://x.com/MilitaryBanter/status/1997625722299674741) 2025-12-07T11:14Z 90K followers, 11.1K engagements "Hiya mate can you please keep annon Just a basic walk-around of a vehicle straight from GD and absolutely nothing in-depth. However this is what GD was sending us and our CoC who were already lined up for jobs with them would tell us to accept them. There were a lot more problems than this" [X Link](https://x.com/MilitaryBanter/status/1997681909103509610) 2025-12-07T14:57Z 90K followers, 428K engagements "Questions should also be raised when the programme is described as a firm-price contract of approximately XXX billion and when delays are framed as not over budget just late. For example: who funded the User Validation Trials (UVT) at Millbrook Proving Ground These trials were required to independently demonstrate to General Dynamics (GD) that issues existed with the vehicle. GD did not cover the cost; the public did. Taxpayers ultimately paid to provide evidence that the platform had faults. GDs response to the identified vibration issues was a comfort pack which mounted crew controls and" [X Link](https://x.com/MilitaryBanter/status/1997728259585233266) 2025-12-07T18:01Z 90K followers, 30.2K engagements "Well it's Monday morning and it's begun already not the "we really need to work out how we got here with Ajax" investigation. It's the "who's telling FYB about all this" investigation. Which hunt all you like on behalf of this circus I'll just add your name to the people complicit in all this" [X Link](https://x.com/MilitaryBanter/status/1997947764278194231) 2025-12-08T08:34Z 90K followers, 46.7K engagements "Unfortunately everything that has been posted is all true. The video is the optional upgrade. You can get a hand wash in the hull. There's a void in the hull this collects with water any fluid leaks which were common. Whenever you removed the drain plugs there would be an uncontrollable mess. I think this is an opportunity for full story to come out. Hiding behind the huge wages is great but at the cost of damaging our serving personnel" [X Link](https://x.com/MilitaryBanter/status/1997958902311211424) 2025-12-08T09:18Z 90K followers, 439.5K engagements "Come on @LukePollard you must feel like you've been lied to" [X Link](https://x.com/MilitaryBanter/status/1997975709403242860) 2025-12-08T10:25Z 90K followers, 24.4K engagements "Please keep this information anonymous. Addressing the noise and vibration issues is only the tip of the iceberg; the entire platform is affected by numerous faults and design shortcomings. A significant design flaw was identified during a Bovie instructors course. While testing the rear door emergency cut-off system instructors discovered that it did not function as intended. Rather than activating upon contact the emergency cut-off bar bent or moved out of the way allowing the dummy to be crushed by the rear door. When this issue was raised with GD the response was that it was user error" [X Link](https://x.com/MilitaryBanter/status/1998040071442759946) 2025-12-08T14:40Z 90K followers, 63.5K engagements "Play silly games win silly prizes calling me a liar forces me to prove everything with all the photo and video evidence i have (been holding back for OPSEC). Apologise/retract or i'll be the bloke you don't want me to be" [X Link](https://x.com/MilitaryBanter/status/1998048621833441693) 2025-12-08T15:14Z 90K followers, 23.9K engagements "I'd like to thank the entire CDS team for prompting me to release videos today. Here's one of the door safety failing/crushing test dummies" [X Link](https://x.com/MilitaryBanter/status/1998050579915161651) 2025-12-08T15:22Z 90K followers, 745.3K engagements "Please keep anon. The issues that are coming out for AJAX are the tip of the iceberg the list is endless. The PXR delivered by a unit on scorpion cyclone highlighted so much that has been ignored. And Im only listening a few issues. - The vehicle batteries cannot sustain the vehicle for general use and the APU that is fitted to the AJAX variant is so prone to failing that units are stopping troops from using them. The COA for this is to carry a manpack on exercise to avoid the need of running the vehicle up but this also effects training with students not being able to receive full lessons. -" [X Link](https://x.com/MilitaryBanter/status/1998076907959513446) 2025-12-08T17:07Z 90K followers, 201K engagements "I want to be absolutely clear about why Fill Your Boots shares the submissions it does. People arent speaking up because they dislike the Armytheyre speaking up because they care about it and because they dont want to see people put at risk or ignored. The issues being raised about AJAX are serious. Whatever anyone thinks about the cost or the delays the fact is this: people have been harmed dismissed or left without answers. That should matter to everyone. When serving personnel raise concerns they should be heard. I genuinely hope the Ministry of Defence is paying attention to whats being" [X Link](https://x.com/MilitaryBanter/status/1998113337578561930) 2025-12-08T19:31Z 90K followers, 59.5K engagements "please keep anon mate. I served as a REME inspector on the Ajax acceptance and testing team where my primary role was to inspect all variants of the Ajax vehicles at Merthyr Tydfil in partnership with General Dynamics. Unfortunately the vehicles consistently arrived in a poor state and our inspections uncovered a long list of serious faults. Over XXX faults is accurate and if anything is slightly an understatement. There are many usage limits on the platform many of which get disregarded by CoC in order to "test" the vehicles to a standard required to meet IOC. How can a vehicle with usage" [X Link](https://x.com/MilitaryBanter/status/1997286518897991798) 2025-12-06T12:46Z 90K followers, 23.6K engagements "Todays CO only brief on Ajax has been postponed until Political and media sensitivities around the subject have reduced" [X Link](https://x.com/MilitaryBanter/status/1998676933932994864) 2025-12-10T08:51Z 90K followers, 10.6K engagements
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@MilitaryBanter fill your boots
fill your boots posts on X about ajax, has been, units, philip knowles the most. They currently have XXXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.
Engagements: XXXXXXX #
- X Week XXXXXXXXX +4,599%
- X Month XXXXXXXXX +1,169%
- X Months XXXXXXXXX +239%
- X Year XXXXXXXXX -XX%
Mentions: XX #
- X Week X +80%
- X Month XX -XX%
- X Months XX +171%
- X Year XXX -XX%
Followers: XXXXXX #
- X Week XXXXXX +1.60%
- X Month XXXXXX +1.80%
- X Months XXXXXX +3.90%
- X Year XXXXXX +6.80%
CreatorRank: XXXXXX #
Social Influence
Social category influence stocks finance pga golfers countries celebrities musicians
Social topic influence ajax #13, has been #415, units #21, philip knowles, cyprus, the project, if you, staff, taylor swift, art
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @marcinmare79140 @izzywestbury @alistaircarns @timkaraga @robbieg72141131 @team_snafu @lukepollard @spiciersubmemes @tomtugendhat @pansarvarnslav1 @idkwidlool @shloppythirds @rakordeon88393 @balmer_tim @ltsarcasm @always_boots @qincorrect @xom_c2 @dmbrookfield @utbdoug969
Top assets mentioned General Dynamics Corporation (GD)
Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"Maybe because Ajax is a joke"
X Link 2025-12-03T23:32Z 90K followers, 12K engagements
"Anything that touches Ajax"
X Link 2023-04-04T09:25Z 90K followers, 43.4K engagements
"RIP Private Philip Knowles of A (Norfolk) Company the 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment was tragically killed on XX September 2022 in the Eastern Sovereign Base Area Cyprus. Missed and loved by all"
X Link 2023-11-08T13:18Z 90K followers, 25.8K engagements
"Cant make it up managers from GD mocking Ajax crews for incompetence causes the issues"
X Link 2025-12-03T17:38Z 90K followers, 127.7K engagements
"I am an anonymous General Dynamics Employee (ex army) I've seen your recent post about the AJAX. The project being X years overdue is not even half of it: - Vehicles regularly come off the production line with circa XXX faults on them. - We can't even build the vehicles to meet the test standard which we came up with ourselves. If the Army finds too many failures they will either change the test so that the vehicle passes every time or the management will scurry off to the civil servants from DE&S that work on site to ask them to sign a "concession" for the vehicle to leave the factory and"
X Link 2025-12-03T21:27Z 90K followers, 339.6K engagements
"Hi mate. IF you post this Could it be annon please. Units have recently had GD employees on site inspecting and testing the AJAX fleet. They have been 'removing data' and inspecting vehicles. Stating that things like drivers and commander not using seat belts or sitting in the seat correctly is part of the issue not the vehicle. Stating that they have found bolts loose so no wonder it's vibrating. ( bolts that they fitted vibrated loose and dropped out whilst crews are driving). They have been taking vehicles out on 'test drives' with vibration equipment covering about 5km at low speed gentle"
X Link 2025-12-03T23:06Z 90K followers, 86.9K engagements
"please keep this anonymous. Id like to let you know that my ******** works for general dynamics. I sent him a screenshot of the whistleblower post you did yesterday. Today he has gone into work meetings are being held with staff and they are trying to hunt down the whistleblower"
X Link 2025-12-04T11:37Z 90K followers, 40.1K engagements
"Ajax needs a theme tune Shake It Off Taylor Swift The Sound of Silence Simon & Garfunkel Good Vibrations The Beach Boys"
X Link 2025-12-04T13:54Z 90K followers, 8940 engagements
"(anon). I was at the ATDU a few years back on a visit to see the Ajax units that were in early stage acceptance trials. The view I was told from the embedded GDUK team of engineers (or at least those in charge) was that they saw the medical discharges and H&S issues from Ajax as grossly exaggerated if not entirely fabricated by MOD. They were adamant on pressing on with pushing the units into Army service without any revisions or much scrutiny. My impression was that they had no intention of taking any of the problems back to GDUK nor pushing fixes to the production line"
X Link 2025-12-06T10:07Z 90K followers, 15.3K engagements
"I'm also ex REME We used to sit next to the test track and each pass we would pick up fod that had fallen off the vehicle. There would be a massive pile mate and we'd make a game on who could gather the most"
X Link 2025-12-06T13:17Z 90K followers, 209K engagements
"Why is Ajax still used so heavily in Army ads Also does "advanced" have a 2nd meaning I'm not aware of"
X Link 2025-12-07T11:14Z 90K followers, 11.1K engagements
"Hiya mate can you please keep annon Just a basic walk-around of a vehicle straight from GD and absolutely nothing in-depth. However this is what GD was sending us and our CoC who were already lined up for jobs with them would tell us to accept them. There were a lot more problems than this"
X Link 2025-12-07T14:57Z 90K followers, 428K engagements
"Questions should also be raised when the programme is described as a firm-price contract of approximately XXX billion and when delays are framed as not over budget just late. For example: who funded the User Validation Trials (UVT) at Millbrook Proving Ground These trials were required to independently demonstrate to General Dynamics (GD) that issues existed with the vehicle. GD did not cover the cost; the public did. Taxpayers ultimately paid to provide evidence that the platform had faults. GDs response to the identified vibration issues was a comfort pack which mounted crew controls and"
X Link 2025-12-07T18:01Z 90K followers, 30.2K engagements
"Well it's Monday morning and it's begun already not the "we really need to work out how we got here with Ajax" investigation. It's the "who's telling FYB about all this" investigation. Which hunt all you like on behalf of this circus I'll just add your name to the people complicit in all this"
X Link 2025-12-08T08:34Z 90K followers, 46.7K engagements
"Unfortunately everything that has been posted is all true. The video is the optional upgrade. You can get a hand wash in the hull. There's a void in the hull this collects with water any fluid leaks which were common. Whenever you removed the drain plugs there would be an uncontrollable mess. I think this is an opportunity for full story to come out. Hiding behind the huge wages is great but at the cost of damaging our serving personnel"
X Link 2025-12-08T09:18Z 90K followers, 439.5K engagements
"Come on @LukePollard you must feel like you've been lied to"
X Link 2025-12-08T10:25Z 90K followers, 24.4K engagements
"Please keep this information anonymous. Addressing the noise and vibration issues is only the tip of the iceberg; the entire platform is affected by numerous faults and design shortcomings. A significant design flaw was identified during a Bovie instructors course. While testing the rear door emergency cut-off system instructors discovered that it did not function as intended. Rather than activating upon contact the emergency cut-off bar bent or moved out of the way allowing the dummy to be crushed by the rear door. When this issue was raised with GD the response was that it was user error"
X Link 2025-12-08T14:40Z 90K followers, 63.5K engagements
"Play silly games win silly prizes calling me a liar forces me to prove everything with all the photo and video evidence i have (been holding back for OPSEC). Apologise/retract or i'll be the bloke you don't want me to be"
X Link 2025-12-08T15:14Z 90K followers, 23.9K engagements
"I'd like to thank the entire CDS team for prompting me to release videos today. Here's one of the door safety failing/crushing test dummies"
X Link 2025-12-08T15:22Z 90K followers, 745.3K engagements
"Please keep anon. The issues that are coming out for AJAX are the tip of the iceberg the list is endless. The PXR delivered by a unit on scorpion cyclone highlighted so much that has been ignored. And Im only listening a few issues. - The vehicle batteries cannot sustain the vehicle for general use and the APU that is fitted to the AJAX variant is so prone to failing that units are stopping troops from using them. The COA for this is to carry a manpack on exercise to avoid the need of running the vehicle up but this also effects training with students not being able to receive full lessons. -"
X Link 2025-12-08T17:07Z 90K followers, 201K engagements
"I want to be absolutely clear about why Fill Your Boots shares the submissions it does. People arent speaking up because they dislike the Armytheyre speaking up because they care about it and because they dont want to see people put at risk or ignored. The issues being raised about AJAX are serious. Whatever anyone thinks about the cost or the delays the fact is this: people have been harmed dismissed or left without answers. That should matter to everyone. When serving personnel raise concerns they should be heard. I genuinely hope the Ministry of Defence is paying attention to whats being"
X Link 2025-12-08T19:31Z 90K followers, 59.5K engagements
"please keep anon mate. I served as a REME inspector on the Ajax acceptance and testing team where my primary role was to inspect all variants of the Ajax vehicles at Merthyr Tydfil in partnership with General Dynamics. Unfortunately the vehicles consistently arrived in a poor state and our inspections uncovered a long list of serious faults. Over XXX faults is accurate and if anything is slightly an understatement. There are many usage limits on the platform many of which get disregarded by CoC in order to "test" the vehicles to a standard required to meet IOC. How can a vehicle with usage"
X Link 2025-12-06T12:46Z 90K followers, 23.6K engagements
"Todays CO only brief on Ajax has been postponed until Political and media sensitivities around the subject have reduced"
X Link 2025-12-10T08:51Z 90K followers, 10.6K engagements