Question follow-through · 76460
Air Force: Unmanned Air Systems
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans his Department has to procure drones for the Royal Air Force.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Ministry of Defence
- Tabled
- 10 Sept 2025
- Target answer date
- 15 Sept 2025
- Answer
- 16 Sept 2025 · 6 calendar days after tabling
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Votes on this topic
- Opposition Day Motion: Defence spending and readiness - Prime Minister's Amendment · 23 Jun 2026
- Opposition day: Defence spending and readiness · 23 Jun 2026
- Armed Forces Bill Report Stage: Amendment 11 · 22 Jun 2026
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Recorded timeline
10 Sept 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what plans his Department has to procure drones for the Royal Air Force.
15 Sept 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
16 Sept 2025
Answer published
The Strategic Defence Review recommends that the Royal Air Force should shift towards greater use of autonomy and Artificial Intelligence (AI) as an immediate priority. As part of this transformation, uncrewed and autonomous systems will be incorporated i...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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