Autonomy in the field is mostly narrow and mostly unglamorous. Terminal guidance that keeps working after the link drops, a route planner, an automatic target recognizer that flags candidates for a human. The systems that get fielded are the ones a crew already trusts, which is a slower path than any procurement schedule assumes.
This section covers military AI and autonomous systems. Collaborative combat aircraft, uncrewed surface and underwater vessels, ground robots, automated intelligence processing, decision support, predictive maintenance, and the test and assurance work needed before any of it goes near a weapon.
Claims about autonomy levels get checked against what an operator can actually delegate. Most fielded systems remain a long way from the description in the press release.
The Royal Australian Air Force keeps 41 de-commissioned F/A-18A/B Hornets in climate-controlled hangars at RAAF Base Williamtown. Canberra, Washington, and Kyiv are now in formal talks that could move a portion of that fleet to Ukraine instead of a scrapyard.
The French, German, and Spanish defense ministries have committed to the next stage of the tri-national Future Combat Air System. Their signature on Phase 1B unlocks €3.2 billion for a thirty-six-month round of design and demonstration work. The agreement comes two weeks
Israel Aerospace Industries President and Chief Executive Joseph Weiss sat beside Spacecom head David Pollack at Ben Gurion Airport yesterday and signed a single document that binds both companies to deliver, launch, and operate the Amos-6 communications satellite for roughly $195 million.
FORT WORTH, Texas - The U.S. government has released an initial $213 million so Lockheed Martin can begin long-lead work on 20 Advanced Block 52 F-16s for the Egyptian Air Force. A Letter of Offer and Acceptance under the Foreign Military Sales
The Systems Division of Tenix Defence Systems today closed the Critical Design Review for the ELTA EL/L-8222 electronic-countermeasures pod Software Support Facility. Built at Mawson Lakes, South Australia, the new suite will stand ready for the Royal Australian Air Force’s Electronic Warfare
