IISS traces 144 European drone sightings across 13 states to Russia's shadow fleet. Also: One Pentagon drone office, London's £5 billion autonomy bet, NDAA doctrine push, Ukraine's Pacific test run, CCA production start. A Paper Trail For GhostsA...
Category: Doctrine & Policy
So Which Tasks Will Be Left For Humans?
In 1951, the psychologist Paul Fitts drew a line for the US National Research Council on the division of labour between people and machines in aviation. Humans got judgement in novel situations, flexibility, inductive reasoning, the detection of faint...
Drones Are Eating the Military’s Command Structure Too
Ukraine floats a stratosphere missile that defeats Russian jamming by cutting its own navigation off. Also: Britain ditches its destroyers for drone-coordinating warships, a US company cleared a fortified breach with 35 drones and 100 pounds of C4, AI is...
Shaheds That Think, Drones That Pay, and a $4 Billion IPO
Ukraine's top drone analyst says AI autonomous targeting is weeks away for Shaheds. Also: Kyiv's e-Points system is steering units toward harder targets 100 km from the front, a hand-launched recon drone reaches 150 km for a fraction of the usual cost, an...
Britain Looks to Uncrewed Systems as its Crewed Systems Falter
General Sir Roly Walker states half of the British Army's entire capital budget will go to consumables and uncrewed systems by 2030, and every soldier must be able to operate a drone. Defence Secretary Jarvis followed with a formal commitment to uncrewed...
AI Moves Into the Physical World, the Military Watches Closely
Anthropic's Claude programs a robodog 20 times faster than its fastest human team; six companies build an autonomous drone-killing ground robot in 28 hours at the US Army's Operation Jailbreak. Also: Ukraine opens its combat AI data to 100 firms, Germany...
Drones From Swindon to the Frontline
Europe's largest indoor drone testing facility opens in Swindon under a new UK Defence Secretary. Also: Ukraine's monthly drone kill count climbs 12.7%, Pokémon Go scan data trains military navigation AI, Spain launches a mixed swarm experiment, and NATO...
Sea Drone Rescues Downed US Crew in Historic First
A robot boat rescues two downed aviators in the Gulf, and the way it happened says a lot about where naval autonomy is heading. Plus: Taiwan's drone budget gutted, what survived the FCAS wreck, bee-brained drones, and an AI boss breaks ranks. First...
From Washington to Kharkiv, Military AI Moves Forward
Trump's new directive puts commercial AI on the Pentagon's classified networks, with strings attached. Elsewhere: Ukraine automates the Shahed hunt, a drone carrier on the Dnipro, Kyiv's 2,000 km ambition, Russia's AI tank talk, and Britain's first ground...