ARX Robotics gains a British Army platform and a Welsh production route through General Dynamics Land Systems-UK. The concept is uncosted and carries no Ministry of Defence funding.
CORVUS replaces Watchkeeper's 54-aircraft buy with up to 24 AR5s, a contract built for service-life updates and a Swindon line. Another 1,025 small drones hedge the question of whether the larger aircraft can survive.
The UK's 15-year collective-training award puts a US prime and Germany's Rheinmetall inside the British Army's training pipeline; Rheinmetall's share alone is just under 1 billion euros.
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.
An agentic-AI targeting web modeled on Ukraine's tempo now plans in an hour what took three days, leaving munitions, not decisions, as the British Army's constraint.