Britain’s Armed Forces are set to be strengthened and thousands of British jobs created through a drone transformation, announced by the Prime Minister and backed by more than £5 billion in the Government’s Defence Investment Plan (DIP). The Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer, has set out how new investment in defence will accelerate the use of drones and autonomous systems across the Armed Forces, as he launches the long-awaited plan. As recent conflicts gave shown, drones are rapidly reshaping warfare, with cheaper systems destroying high value targets and innovation cycles measured in weeks, not years. Ukraine uses roughly 200,000 drones a month to defend…
