Both the UK and France have adopted the CTA International CT40mm Cannon for their respective Armoured Vehicle development programmes. While the French vehicle has gone from contract to service in six years, its UK equivalents AJAX and the Warrior Capability Sustainment (CSP) have faced delays.

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Before 1980, companies used mainframe computers to store and analyse data.

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Militaries must develop the ability to analyse and create actionable information from big data.

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Head of the UK’s Armed Forces, Chief of the Defence Staff General Sir Nick Carter, has said the military “must fundamentally change our thinking if we are not to be overwhelmed.”

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General Dynamics and Lockheed Martin have both blamed the government-furnished CT40 cannon for causing delays to the UK’s armoured vehicle programmes in evidence submitted to Parliament’s defence select committee.

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Delivering a briefing ahead of the upcoming integrated review into defence, security and foreign policy British Army Chief of the General Staff (CGS) General Sir Mark Carleton-Smith said the future of the army would be “about the integration of ‘boots and bots’, of proxies and pixels, of the conventional and unconventional”.

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Big data has applications across all domains of warfare, from providing detailed threat analysis in a hostile environment to improving the capabilities of autonomous systems.

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Military drone technologies are way ahead of consumer and commercial drone technologies, due to decades of operational history.

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Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, have been a regular feature in military applications, especially surveillance, for some time, and the range of defence applications continues to grow as technology develops.

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QinetiQ group CTO Mike Sewart has warned that the ‘traditional supremacy’ of western forces ‘currently doesn’t extend to grey zone tactics’.

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