Defense armored vehicles out of service due to defect

The army is temporarily unable to deploy some of the Boxer armoured wheeled vehicles. A defect in a wheel suspension bolt has been discovered in seventy of the two hundred vehicles. The vehicle is mainly used by the 13th Light Brigade in Oirschot. According to a spokesperson for the Ministry of Defence, the wrong machine was used to tighten the bolt. As a result, the bolt was tightened with too much pressure. The Royal Netherlands Army is taking…