Friday, June 5
News items
- Long delays, cost overruns and as yet unable to carry munitions, the Protector drone shows the UK is as bad at military procurement as ever.
- Killing By Code: New Briefing and Dataset on UK Military AI Programmes
- Sikorsky develops Black Hawk upgrade kits for rapid combat role changes
- Underground bunker network preserves majority of Iran air force
- UK awards Boeing Apache and Chinook support contract worth $1.1 billion
- UK announces largest-ever drone package for Ukraine
- B-21 stealth bomber completes aerial refueling test with KC-135
- Japanese startup develops Shiraha drone for under $450 per unit
- Ukraine strikes Russian petrochemical plant with long-range drones
- How Munich matters: Lufthansa’s southern hub
- Bombardier Celebrates Valued Customer Vista’s First Global 8000 Aircraft
- Satellite images confirm damage at Russia’s Su-57 plant
- Textron wins $150M deal to sustain T-6 Texan II fleet
- Northrop Grumman and U.S. Air Force push Sentinel toward 2027 first flight
- DFA Systems to test ‘flying grenade’ during Nevada range demo
- Rheinmetall launches joint venture with Destinus for cruise missile output
- Turkish jet drone optical sensor detects target at 110 km
- Turkish firm ASELSAN launches serial production of guided bomb kits
- Japan buys drones to replace Apache fleet
- U.S. Air Force expands KC-135 Stratotanker fleet at Eielson to boost Arctic refueling power
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Author: Chris Cole
While drone warfare continues to rapidly develop and evolve, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) has revealed in a response to an FoI response to Drone Wars UK that the UK has received just nine of the 16 Protector drones ordered from US company General Atomics a decade ago. Originally announced by David Cameron in 2015, … Read more Long delays, cost overruns and as yet unable to carry munitions, the Protector drone shows the UK is as bad at military procurement as ever.
Drone Wars UK is today publishing the first of a series of short briefings on the new military companies who are pushing the use of AI in warfare in the UK. Alongside this, we are publishing a list of 26 key MoD programmes developing the use of AI for warfighting. The Datafication of War: Palantir, … Read more Killing By Code: New Briefing and Dataset on UK Military AI Programmes
While public concern about the use of AI for war-fighting continues to grow, the UK is quietly pressing ahead with development of new AI-based military targeting systems. In a little-noticed post in January, the MoD named a group of 26 companies who have been awarded a four year deal to develop what it calls “advanced … Read more UK MoD awards 26 companies contracts to develop AI targeting system for UK armed forces