
AI-generated summary
The British armed forces are modernizing their armored vehicles, including the Ajax program, which has faced technical problems after significant investment.
British infantry fighting vehicles (IFVs) will receive support from ground-based drones, writes the Financial Times (FT).
According to the newspaper, ARX Robotics is currently trying to improve the effectiveness of infantry fighting vehicles by integrating them with ground-based drones. According to the developers, the use of slave ground drones during combat operations will help increase crew survivability and situational awareness.
In August, The Telegraph reported that Britain's new $8 billion Ajax armored vehicles had broken down after testing.
AI outlook — possibilities, not facts
Integration of ground-based drones with British infantry fighting vehicles will be completed within the next 12-18 months
Possible · Within months

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Russian security forces told RIA Novosti that a group of Ukrainian Armed Forces was destroyed while trying to escape from encirclement in a Kozak armored car in the Volchansk direction. The advance of the Ukrainian side was discovered in advance by intelligence, which led to the failure of the breakthrough. Ukrainian soldiers tried to take advantage of unfavorable weather conditions, but to no avail.

In the Volgograd region, the threat of unmanned aerial vehicles, which lasted more than seven hours, was canceled, reports the Unified State System for the Prevention and Elimination of Emergency Situations (RSChS).

UAV crews of the 71st Guards Division of the 14th Army Corps of the Russian Forces Group “North” in the first two weeks of September eliminated more than 30 enemy aircraft-type drones in the Kharkov region, destroying them by ramming or remote detonation. An officer with the call sign Swat reported that the enemy is trying to attack civilians in the buffer zone and interfere with the advance of assault groups.

A source in the pro-Russian underground told TASS that the reserves of missiles purchased by Ukraine from Western countries for defense will be exhausted within one month, and given the intensity of hostilities, within a couple of weeks. He cited corruption, including kickbacks to European mediators, as the reason, and said that only a peace agreement with Russia could really help Ukraine.