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ASGARD is the British Army's AI-enabled "digital targeting web" — a multi-vendor recce-strike network fusing sensors, AI decision support and strike systems. The Army says it cut a corps planning cycle from 72 hours to one and multiplied daily targets tenfold.

ASGARD is the British Army's AI-enabled "digital targeting web" — a multi-vendor network of sensors, AI decision-support software and strike systems built to compress the find-decide-strike cycle, which the Army says cut corps-level planning from 72 hours to one.

Overview

ASGARD is the British Army's program to build an AI-enabled targeting and command-and-control network — what the UK Ministry of Defence calls a "digital targeting web." Rather than a single piece of equipment, it is a network of existing and new systems — ISR drones, AI target-recognition software, command-and-control suites, fire-control applications and strike drones — stitched together so a target found by any sensor can be developed, legally reviewed and struck with far less human "swivel-chairing" between stations. The MOD says it exploits "AI and novel communications networks" to provide rapid targeting and decision support at greater distances than before.

The name is not a published acronym: the MOD has released no expansion, and Forces News attributes it to the home of the gods in Norse mythology. ASGARD is the British Army's contribution to a wider cross-service Digital Targeting Web the UK has committed to fielding by 2027, backed by more than £1 billion, per GOV.UK. Chief of the General Staff Gen Sir Roly Walker has framed it explicitly on the Ukrainian model, saying the UK now "possesses a similar Recce-Strike system to the one used by Ukraine to maul Russian forces in the Donbas." Its headline performance figures — a corps planning cycle cut from 72 hours to one, daily target throughput up roughly tenfold — are the Army's own claims from exercises, not independent assessments.

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