Air Force: Autonomous Weapons
Commons · Question 68745 · Tabled 17 Jul 2025 · Ministry of Defence · Official record
Answered 1 Sep 2025
Question
Asked by Andrew Rosindell
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
Answered by Maria Eagle, 1 Sep 2025
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...