UK high -tech war operations to be unified in the defense disposal process

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Defense Minister John Healy announced that the UK army will unite electronic and electronic operations under one leadership as part of a comprehensive reorganization of the high -tech war.

This step will be a central panel for the government’s strategic defense review, which is expected to be revealed on Monday, which will set plans and priorities for military spending for the coming years.

the Ministry of Defense It also plans to spend more than one billion pounds to develop a system driven by artificial intelligence to analyze and liquidate the huge quantities of data created throughout the army.

This is part of a wider effort to digest the military lessons learned during the Ukrainian conflict, which witnessed that Ukraine is using technology to install a numerical enemy.

On a visit to the UK army leadership in Mod Corsham at Wiltshire on Wednesday, Heley defended Britain’s obligations to pressure the pressure from the United States and other NATO allies to increase the financing of the armed forces.

In the process of increasingly warring Russia, Prime Minister Kiir Starmer pledged an additional 5 billion pounds this year Defense spending To the threshold of 2.5 percent of GDP by 2027 and 3 % in the upcoming elections. However, this may not be enough for NATO allies.

On Monday, the Secretary -General of Mark Rutti said that NATO will agree to the goal of defensive spending 5 percent of GDP3.5 per cent on pure defense and 1.5 percent on the broader security -related elements, in line with US President Donald Trump’s demands.

Any disputes are likely to reach her head later this month at the NATO annual summit in The Hague.

“We have always played our role in NATO,” he said. “We go to the top ready to plan to meet our abilities obligations. We will make our obligations to NATO. But above all, Britain will become the leading European nation in NATO.”

Speaking to Mod Corsham, Healy said, “We are under daily attack” in the Internet. “This is the nervous center of the UK army, which helps us defend these attacks … The keyboard has become a weapon for war.

“In future conflicts – this lesson learned from Ukraine – those who prevail will be those who are not better and better equipped, but they are better linked.”

The new national electronic and electromagnetic leadership will unify electronic employees in the United Kingdom, who are wandering at the Intelligence Agency GchQ, the Ministry of Defense and other government units.

The national electronic force, which oversees the “offensive” electronic operations, will remain independent by the plan. The new electronic driving – similar but not identical to the electronic force that has been created a decade and a half ago by the Pentagon – will unify a series of smaller units in national leadership alongside NCF.

Experts were skeptical of reorganization. “I am two decades.” Said one of the reserve officers. “It is clear that the electronic war and the internet capacity are very important. But I am not sure that the way to overcome the bureaucracy is to create more organizations and classes.”

Meanwhile, the new “Web Digital Web” system aims to sew the data collected across the battlefield and translate it into better intelligence about what the opponent does, but on a broader scale of current programs that are used like MAven, designed by the American Defense Company Palantir. Defense officials insisted that there is no single system or company that will provide the full image, which one described as a “systems system”.

“It is a dangerous level of investment and shows it is a real priority,” said Will Bleith, CEO and co -founder of Arondite, the United Kingdom’s defense software.