Written Question·Ministry of Defence·UIN 123249

Unmanned Air Systems

Tabled: 24 March 2026
Answered: 31 March 2026

Question

Mr Richard Holden

Conservative — Basildon and Billericay

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the potential implications for his Department's policies of the lessons from the Russia-Ukraine war on the use of unmanned systems in warfare; and what steps his Department is takin

Answer

Al Carns
The UK’s Armed Forces are learning much from the war in Ukraine, particularly the need for a much faster ‘learn and adapt’ cycle to accelerate developments in our capabilities, doctrine, and tactics. More broadly, the Strategic Defence Review considered a...
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