UK’s First Autonomous Full-Size Helicopter Is a Taste of the Royal Navy’s Hybrid Air Wing

In the last month of last year, the British Ministry of Defense (MOD) introduced the world to the Atlantic Bastion program, which, in a nutshell, is an effort meant to counter increased Russian naval threats, especially underwater ones, in the North Atlantic. There are several ways the Brits fancy themselves doing this, including the creation of something called the hybrid air wing. That would be a collection of crewed and uncrewed airbor... (continue reading...)