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UK Troops Explore the Future of Combat on NATO’s Eastern Flank
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1:27Now PlayingIn a makeshift command center at an abandoned Soviet airfield on NATO’s eastern flank, British soldiers used a specialized network to connect with drones, robots and artillery — technology they hope will transform the battlefield.
In the future, the soldiers of the Army’s 11th Brigade might use the system to target an enemy. During the exercises in Latvia this month, however, the goal was to eliminate something more benign: traditional paper maps and lengthy weapons development cycles.
Embracing new approaches such as British start-up Arondite Ltd.’s Cobalt battlefield management system is part of a multibillion-dollar bet by the UK’s defense ministry, and NATO, that technology can vastly expand the area infantry can control.
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