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Military & Aerospace Electronics: British Army considers artificial intelligence (AI) and hybrid power for land vehicles for future warfare

British Army Warfighting Experiment seeks to capture technological innovation to prepare the Army more generally for complex future warfare.

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October 4, 2021

LONDON – The British Army is leaning heavily into robotics, artificial intelligence (AI) and hybrid-power technology as part of a new acquisition process dubbed Mercury. Defense News reports. Continue reading original article

The Military & Aerospace Electronics take:

4 Oct. 2021 — British Army leaders are grappling with how to acquire necessary future technologies like hybrid power, how to spiral those technologies across equipment programs and how to cultivate soldier skills to use capabilities as they come online.

Driving innovation to achieve its goals, the army must identify technologies that likely will change the way the service operates and fights. This would be done by drawing on traditional and nontraditional suppliers.

Project Mercury, one part of the approach, is based on two key tenants: how to disperse combat power across the battlefield, and the increasing electrification of land vehicles.

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John Keller, chief editor
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