Military Uncrewed Systems · Drones · AI
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...
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...
The US Air Force awards production contracts for 1,000 autonomous combat jets, four months ahead of schedule, and opens a six-vendor competition to write their brains. Also: 43 FPVs collapse a road bridge, a European C2 startup raises €32 million at...
Ukraine reveals autonomous drones that killed without a human in the loop. Also: the Army builds a counter-UAS hunter-killer robot in 48 hours, a 1,000 kg underwater strike drone debuts at Eurosatory, the Sting interceptor's speed trade-off, and Kyiv opens...
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...
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...
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...
A $25 wing kit just sent a Ukrainian FPV drone 102 km behind Russian lines, and both sides know what comes next. Plus: the AI finding gaps in Russian air defences, fire at Putin's showcase forum, Denmark's sea swarms, and London's quiet kill-chain row. ...