Re: Oxymoron ?
It is failing on mere basics and prerequisites even before offering jewels and trinkets.
You have to walk (or even crawl) before you can run. You have to have working indigenous unmanned systems to automate. Sure, you can try to automate the manned ones instead. That, however, is more difficult - just ask anyone who was unfortunate to try to wire for remote anything that is designed for human operation.
So where is UK relative to the "first world" as far as unmanned combat systems are concerned. 10 years or thereabouts behind USA, 10 years behind Israel and if the specs on what was carted out on the 9th of May on the Red square are believable at least 7 years behind Russia which used the Syria conflict to gain on the undisputed leaders in the field.
The only "British" military system of sorts UK is developing sort-a indigenously (the Watchkeeper) has no combat hours clocked and it has no attack functionality. There is no indigenous combat attack helicopter system comparable to Grumman MQ8. There is no British made ground attack system comparable to the Russian Uran-9. The sea-going drones are also pretty much years behind Sea Hunter and Status-6 which are in testing since 2016 (the latter based on NATO reports of its sighted test runs).
Asking for AI with this "base" is frankly laughable. How about sorting out the basics first and having a drone which is not lost every other times it flies? How about a couple of missiles on it for starters?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
