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...
Tag: Ukraine
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...
A War of Operating Systems
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...
