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Artificial intelligence: the hope, the hype and the real-world reality

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Artificial intelligence has supported C2 systems and decision-making for more than two decades. It has gradually built up a head of steam in the 2020s, but what is it achieving today and what role could it play in the future?

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A cluster of acquisitions by Fincantieri, Thales, Lockheed Martin and Rheinmetall points to a race to secure underwater warfare, autonomy and sensing capability.

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India has started final cost negotiations for acquisition of S-400 Triumf air defence missile systems, Shephard has learned. The final deal is expected to be …

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US Defense Secretary James Mattis failed to placate China’s fears that the US government, under the Trump administration, was taking China as a serious existential …

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Taiwan’s air force said the pilot of an F-16 fighter jet was killed after his plane crashed on 4 June in the mountains at the …

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L3 MAS, IAI partner for Canadian RPAS

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OSI to upgrade RCN’s navigation systems

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EW Europe 2018: Preparing for radar 'war modes'

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At the Royal United Service Institute (RUSI) Seapower conference in May, Gavin Williamson, the secretary of state for defence and Adm Phillip Jones, First Sea …

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