#NATO Army

The Royal Navy has quietly entered a new phase of undersea warfare, deploying autonomous gliders capable of patrolling the depths for months at a time in response to a surge of Russian submarine activity near UK waters.

The United Kingdom is set to become the first European nation to deploy a shipborne combat laser, with the Royal Navy preparing to field the DragonFire high-energy weapon on Type 45 destroyers by 2027—a move military analysts say may redefine how NATO fleets counter drones and saturation attacks.

The Pentagon has launched a sweeping $1 billion initiative to purchase hundreds of thousands of one-way attack drones over the next two years, a major shift toward mass-fielding lower-cost unmanned systems, according to  The War Zone .