British Army targets AI kill chains for deadly machine speed attacks

Added: 2026-05-04

[00:00:02]The British Army wants to double its lethality by 2027 and triple it by 2030.

[00:00:08]So, how's it doing it? Well, this is one way. It's called Lattice. It's a system to join [music] up and integrate all the sensors and effectors the Army currently use. In other words, all their assets, whether it's loitering munitions, attack drones, or F-35s, can all be monitored and tasked from one screen. Creator Anduril describe it [music] simply as getting rid of the swivel chair.

[00:00:34]In the past, maybe two different companies had two different systems, and you would have to transfer data from one to the other by writing it down, swiveling your chair across, and typing it into another system. And the beauty of software like Lattice means we can integrate those natively, and speeding up decision cycles and what we call kill chains, again to help the Army become more lethal.

[00:00:58]If we think of how Lattice is used, an operator may be looking for a Russian air defense system, and have assets in the air, sensors in the air, such as radars or cameras to find it. When those cameras find the air defense system, what Lattice can do is make the connection between the sensor to the effector, which may be a fighter in the air or a one-way drone ready to make that attack. Lattice then makes that connection and creates a kill chain, and creates that kill chain at machine speed, computer machine speed, rather than at human speed. It has the ability then to create options for the human who sits on the loop, such as what's the most effective way of eliminating the air defense, or the quickest, or the cheapest. At that point, the human makes the decision and closes the kill chain.

[00:01:46]It could do all itself, couldn't it?

[00:01:48]Yes, it could do this fully autonomously.

[00:01:51]Right now, there is a there is a rule of law around warfare, and we completely support that at Anduril. We support any rule of law or any way the military wish to use it. We can make it as autonomous or as least autonomous as they wish it to be.

[00:02:08]So, the human will always be involved, is what you're saying? Absolutely, the human will always be involved.

[00:02:14]Anduril are demoing Lattice at their new test site on the far northwest coast of Wales. It's actually a former RAF base.

[00:02:21]The old runways are useful, as is the geographical location, providing hills, sea, and all manner of weather to test and train personnel on their systems.

[00:02:31]>> [music] >> They moved in just last year, and soldiers from 11 Brigade are currently here training on three UAS systems, all joined together through Lattice. So, what you're seeing on the screen here is our Ghost UAS. It's conducting a circular flight across the runways, and it's looking down through its camera at anything that it is on the ground that is of interest. In this instance, what it's looking at is a group of individuals and vehicles that have set up on this runway who are conducting a launch procedure, a training launch procedure of the Altius 600 drone. And you can see here on the video the vehicles that are there, the people that are walking around, they are represented on the on the map that you see here by these different icons. And they're being tracked individually. And we can pass all of that track data across to other systems, and commanders can interact [music] with this data.

[00:03:27]Altius is launching in 5 Okay, we're going to launch Altius now, so you'll see from the Ghost >> Launch, launch, launch.

[00:03:39]Speed is important if the Army is to increase its fighting power. Many of Anduril's engineers used to work on fighter jets, where software updates for tiny changes to a Typhoon could [music] take years. Here, software changes can happen in hours.

[00:03:55]Hardware changes regularly, too, and personnel [music] need to learn fast. A few days ago, these privates and corporals had never set eyes on the drone systems before.

[00:04:05]When you're ready, I'd like you to build a standoff mission. The British Army have been here for 2 and 1/2 days training on this system, and and that's as you can see by the interface, it's a very intuitive system for them to pick up, and that's how it's got to be. We're going to be rolling on and off capabilities like these autonomous platforms very quickly over the coming years. That training burden needs to be as minimum as possible, so that these users can employ this capability immediately in the operational environment. That's what we're seeing in Ukraine, that's what we have to train our guys to be proficient on in the future.

[00:04:39]>> [music] >> Anduril have ambitions for their new home in the Welsh countryside to become [music] a test center for the whole of Europe, helping both British and allied forces speed up the kill chain.

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