The Thales Watchkeeper WK450 is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for all weather, intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance (ISTAR) used by the British Army. [1] The Watchkeeper fleet will be retired from service by March 2025. [2] 47th Regiment Royal Artillery is the sole operator of the Thales Watchkeeper WK450. [3]

Detailed here are the UK’s main military UAVs/drones in service as well its drone development programmes. However there are likely some projects that are classified (five out of the list of thirty-two UAV programmes which the MoD said it had funded, for example, were redacted from the list given to us following an FoI appeal). In addition ...

2024年2月22日 · UK Defence Drone Strategy launched to deliver unified approach to uncrewed systems across all three military services, supported by £4.5 billion of investment. This was published under the 2022...

2024年2月22日 · Having delivered thousands of logistic, surveillance, strike and maritime drones to Ukraine, the strategy sets out how Defence will learn from this important partnership for the operational...

2015年9月11日 · The UK operates five different types of remotely piloted or unmanned aircraft systems. The Royal Air Force operates Reaper; the army operates three: Watchkeeper, Desert Hawk III and Black Hornet; the Royal Navy operates Scan Eagle.

3 天之前 · The BAE Systems Taranis unmanned combat air vehicle (UCAV) demonstrator has been a game-changer for the United Kingdom’s combat air ambitions, offering early experience in autonomous and low-observable technologies that would shape future systems.. As the most advanced aircraft ever built by British engineers at the time , Taranis has had an outsized influence on the direction of the UK ...

3 小时之前 · A leading German military hardware manufacturer is building a new facility in south west England that will develop unmanned armoured vehicles that can be used on the battlefield.

2025年3月10日 · Since February 2024, the UK government has pursued a new ‘Drone Strategy’ to develop and field all manner of UAS across the armed forces. The proliferated use of drones in the Russia-Ukraine war in the last three years has informed British and allied defence policy in preparing for modern, high intensity warfare.

2024年8月10日 · The British Armed Forces are currently testing the Stalker VXE30 mini drone, a new addition to their small Uncrewed Air Systems (sUAS) arsenal, as part of Project TIQUILA.

6 天之前 · UK security technology company OSL announced on 2 April 2025 the successful completion of the final phase of Project HADO (High-Intensity Autonomous Drone Operations): a UK Research and Innovation-funded research and development initiative aimed at enabling secure, repeatable beyond-visual-line-of-sight (BVLOS) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operations across UK airspace.