Trump vs Harris: Whoever Wins, the UK’s Role in Europe Will be Vital

Dr Jack Watling, senior researcher at Royal United Services Institute (Rusi), said AI could also be used to help triage information from the battlefield and send it to operators to allow them to respond more quickly.

Gen Walker, a former Irish Guards officer, said the full-scale attack on Ukraine was designed to fracture Nato and destroy the transatlantic alliances that protected Britain since World War Two. He told the RUSI think tank in London: “This about the Euro Atlantic security architecture. That’s the object of their manoeuvre and it is just starting in Ukraine, so it must fail in Ukraine. Otherwise where does it go next.”

However, experts say there is no hard evidence that London would ax the GCAP project, and that Pollard couldn’t have answered any other way in advance of a defense review that must be allowed to look at all the issues without prior restriction. “There is no basis for expecting the U.K. will back out or drop out of GCAP,” said Philip Shetler-Jones, an international security expert with the London-based RUSI think tank. “The media reports seem to have taken a misleading impression from a comment by a treasury official, and put it together with a comment from the government’s defense team about no commitments being made in advance of the defense review.”... Simon Chelton, an associate fellow also with RUSI, said that instead of dropping out, London’s focus will likely be on making sure the project can develop and maintain an “affordable” next-generation air capability.