Written Question·Ministry of Defence·UIN 68745

Air Force: Autonomous Weapons

Tabled: 17 July 2025
Answered: 1 September 2025

Question

Andrew Rosindell

Reform UK — Romford

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what steps he has taken to improve the domestic (a) development, (b) production and (c) delivery of autonomous systems for service in the Royal Air Force.

Answer

Maria Eagle
The Strategic Defence Review recognised that the RAF must stay at the leading edge of Combat Air's evolution, through the transition from exclusively crewed Combat Air platforms to a Future Combat Air System (FCAS) with a mix of crewed, uncrewed, and incr...
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