Project Convergence Capstone 4 | The Future of Warfare | British Army

British troops tested cutting-edge systems and technologies in the Mojave Desert and on the California Coast ☀️
Project Convergence Capstone 4 was a major war-fighting experiment that improved military interoperability between the countries taking part - the USA, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, France, and Japan.
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[@stu2911]

Great tech, just need to recruit some soldier’s from the council estates like in the old days 😂

[@liambeevor1696]

Why would they fight for a country that hates the working class?

[@CheersDits2979]

💯

[@bernardhoney7063]

So true I was one of them back in the day sod all work elsewhere,I know let’s go and get shot at instead.

[@LICKSTERxx]

Haven't you seen the adverts it's women and the alphabet people that are going to save us

[@olikearney4968]

@@LICKSTERxxnew Royal Navy ads are best out of the bunch. We are in times of war time footing, just look at trident middle launch failure that can’t be fully disclosed due to national security 😢

[@floydmann5444]

Outstanding work.

[@Jacks0rigin]

1:26 Anyone else thought those were tie fighters?

[@IO-zg8md]

This is like the toy shop window. I wonder how much of this tech will actually make it into service?

[@A5tr0101]

All of it probably, we have to highest quality army in the world

[@Samej94]

​@@A5tr0101That's a joke right?

[@user-zt7sx1hr2x]

😂😂😂 the most underfunded understaffed army in the world, take one look at the NHS, the military is treated the same ​@@A5tr0101

[@luigiwoo4469]

really cool! would love to have gotten a closer look at the individual tech

[@Cooltownmedia]

So would Iran.

[@user-zt7sx1hr2x]

ATAK is open source, anyone can use it for free go take a look

[@falconeaterf15]

Nyet Nyet comrade !

[@MyScotty7]

British armed forces has cut back on numbers but grow unbelievably in the tech world,some of the best kit available

[@christopherjones6607]

Agreed but they haven't got enough of it apparently...the standard of british soldier has increased...but not for all the ba..I'm in and amongst a regular british army base atm and I'm shocked at some of the standard in a unprofessional way

[@johnbobson1557]

@@christopherjones6607 Totally agree Chris, I'd go further and say we are useless.

[@christopherjones6607]

@@johnbobson1557 I agree in a sense...what we have got is a intelligence side of the military, especially royal marine commandos..gurkhas and para..and special forces..but they isn't enough..on the other hand look at Russia they a mess 2

[@AethelwulfOfNordHymbraLand2333]

Britain doesn't have the economy to fund a top-tier conventional military force.

[@christopherjones6607]

@@AethelwulfOfNordHymbraLand2333 they didn't in ww2 reason why Britain opened ship yards in America..also Britain had backing from the commonwealth or empire

[@armyrepelentcz4090]

Perfect guys.

[@mindless-pedant]

Ex squaddie here. Are the Septics now training us? Blimey, things have slipped.

[@Surv1ve_Thrive]

Strength, guile, agility, adaptability, momentum & aggression. 🇬🇧👍❤️

[@mihalich7740]

05:45 - Полевой госпиталь на гусеничном ходу - это то, что может найти своё применение не только на поле боя!

[@Dingdangdoo]

What a friendly diverse tier 2 army they are.

[@philipjee4389]

Uk 🇬🇧 will always stay on top we just need are government to spend 3 to 4 % gdp and we need more troops! I’ve tried many times but can’t because of my disability but coming from a mod navy and army family with in the uk 🇬🇧 I have so much respect for are soldiers keeping us safe ❤love to all of you!

[@billevans7936]

Cool

[@evagolldwing2623]

Dear British Army absolutely TOP TOP TOP ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ ♥️ and absolutely 💎 diamond ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️

[@johnbobson1557]

Obviously you were not in Basra when we ran away in the night.

[@dalehill6127]

Modern warfare seems to dictate that speed, agility, stealth and autonomy are the prime advantages to have.

[@1981fallout]

Buzz word buzz word manager talk manager talk waffle waffle.

[@mhamedshaaban6626]

💜💜💜

[@williamward4117]

We got r6 drones now, cool

[@DuncanInnes1956]

Phew, at least I could still operate the GPMG shown at 6:31, which I learned how to use in 1969 as a cadet wearing the cap badge of the Prince of Wales' Own- one of the predecessor regiments of Royal Yorks!

[@Rempai420]

Still spouting dits about being a cadet? Do you spread that one at dinner parties you lizard.

[@Samej94]

If only we had the funding to actually use these

[@user-yp9nz6bs9q]

If I may be candid, too many links to other units. Autonomy, supported by information, imprinted on stand-alone chips.

[@markriley2733]

All that tech and cost. Who spotted the drone with a green gaffa tape repair! At 1.36 min in Nothing changes

[@johnbobson1557]

Brilliant Mark. You hit the nail on the head!!!

[@bluetech2809]

LC Moore aka Robert Webb from Mitchell & Webb

[@frankthompson6503]

Unmanned tanks and APC support vehicle infantry and drone's ship's and submarines

[@corneredknight368]

5:54 Please can someone tell me that the Royal Medical Regiment is a real thing that for some reason lacks any internet presence, and that the army social media team knows about the RAMC.

[@dandavis8479]

It's an error. No such thing as a Royal Medical Regiment.

[@KJ_VFX]

hopefully it's used to reduce civilian causalities rather than multiply them

[@jang1809]

the infantry men shall become gameboy players so no more troop casualties.

[@V3TRAN1337]

best army

[@dawn_alex]

😂

[@Dingdangdoo]

The best tier 2 army.

[@fantomas5614]

I'm happy to see the revival of once great and glorious british army ...!!!

[@danielwhyatt3278]

Well, I wouldn’t say revival just yet. Unless we actually finally start increasing our numbers, to something again to 250,000 to 300,000 troops, we really aren’t going to have what we need.

[@johnbobson1557]

I think you mean (as Col Collins pointed out) British Militia. As an Army we are hopeless.

[@sattm8230]

Will work good in an insurgency. Many of these systems will be immediately blown to pieces by drones in an actual war.

[@sneakysnek1372]

Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter.

[@nedojniboji7200]

Looks like a lot of gimmicks to me

[@johnbobson1557]

Exactly, all bluff and bluster and will be OOA on day 2 of a real combat situation.

[@asce9182]

​@johnbobson1557 With that opinion, you'll be getting slaughtered just like the Russians. The side that can best leverage these types of technologies and defend against them has the advantage of inflicting casualties in a Near Peer war.

[@_F8.]

​@@johnbobson155780% is rubbish, but from it you get 20% that means you have the edge over your opponent. That's the basic facts of war fighting through the ages. 'this gun thing is a passing fad, real soldiers use swords' comes to mind.

[@johnbobson1557]

@@_F8. The supreme art of war, to quote Sun Tzu "is to defeat the enemy without fighting". The West is doing a damn good job of destroying itself.

[@user-ly4el7qf7t]

drones that can deliver blood , ammo or food to troops instead of sending a supply convoy seems like a good application of drones to me

[@KarenNaytowhow]

And Armoured military Hummers with machine gun and missiles mounted controlled on display screen inside

[@ssc3360]

can't we all just get along?

[@Subtleknife12367]

All great in theory, but the Army's biggest issue is it has no mass or redundancy. I don't see this being addressed.

[@mickleblade]

Maybe the MOD could pay their soldiers properly, provide decent housing and make being a soldier a job to be proud of....

[@dba1222]

Question: the image I have in my head of our army is one that barely can field what it has been using the last twenty years let alone adopting the "newest", most technologically advanced stuff. Like the civil service I see it as using barely running systems overstretched and behind the private sector. IS THAT TRUE? Or does it have capability beyond what I can imagine. Ya know, "modern warfare" tools etc?

[@JPEight]

Maintaining old equipment is hard. Buying new equipment solves that problem. Yes, the military is behind the private sector, because all their equipment comes from the private sector. The private sector develops the kit and then the military decides if they want to buy it. There will always be a delay between those such that the cutting edge prototypes are 2-5 years ahead of the finished products on sale, and then probably another 2-5 years before the military buys, takes delivery, trains soldiers on the new equipment, and then deploys it.

[@Skidday]

2:48 Update your Windows ;)

[@KarenNaytowhow]

Put blow proof tires on them haha

[@nomad186]

See you soon when conscription starts 😅

[@captainbuggernut9565]

A future which according to the MOD readiness document of 1997 requires at least 2 years to prepare an emergency response to an external threat. Four years if you want a full response. Lets hope the Russians tell us four years in advance. Oh and don't tell the general population they are nearly all going to die. Otherwise they won't help you. Its farcical.

[@MudThought]

do you send them to ukraine ?

[@Musrusticus-]

Do keep the bayonet, though, won’t you, you know, just in case…

[@jimcy1319]

Throw in a grenade not a little robot, that'll tell you if there's an enemy in there a lot quicker.

[@luisislas2162]

Hostages?

[@jimcy1319]

@@luisislas2162 casualties.

[@novosibirsk-burgersoup]

​@@luisislas2162collateral damage

[@chrisharvey592]

Also a grenade gives away your location. That sounds a smart thing to do in urban warfare 😏

[@jimcy1319]

@@chrisharvey592 🤣🤡 they're storming a building and clearing it out of enemy inside, not trying to sneak past.🤣

[@DavidKelly-km9mu]

COMMENT: 10% of budget, from UK government as minimal increase, at a generational level, to restock and reevaluate, as a peace dividend at issue from prior....go figure.

[@SamFBM]

we need to wake up. we need more aircraft , more tanks and ifvs & way more ships. we are basically just a landing trip for usaf atm.

[@stephenwright437]

All i am reading is Britain couldn't defend itself against Russia but before Britain started given aid to Ukraine there stopped Russia in there tracks with sticks and stones

[@joetato2227]

$10K each just so you can spot the drone before it smokes you. Sf toy only use, average grunt going to brake or lose it in a month.

[@JPEight]

$10K is a small price to pay to save a soldiers life. The biggest cost by far is the soldiers themselves. Hiring rookies is cheap enough, but the cost of an experienced soldier is the lifetime sum of all their pay, all their training, food, equipment, lodgings, travel etc. A soldier with 10+ years experience is a million dollar asset (or more).

[@lavrentievv]

Queer Dance Theory graduates are meant to operate this?

[@binkyknuttsoff9282]

What about an EMP blast ?

[@alexanderlawson1649]

Ukraine. Kamikaze drones, the transparent battlefield, electronic warfare, death, chaos, trench warfare and more death. Plus lets not forget, PGMs by the shed load, which means more death, chaos and destruction. Everyone in this presentation is so clean, so professional, the reality is dirt, filth and squalid death on a battlefield where the rats are the only thing that thrives. Ukraine today.

[@wendyharbon7290]

High Tech Military Gear is great and of course the future, but what happens when this Smart Kits, does not work for some reason? Soldiers and Marines, still need to be able to do it old school as it were, with a Assault Rifle and Bayonet plus some British Guts behind them too! whether it is fighting in a built up area in cities and towns and clearing rooms one by one, or its back to First World War Trench Warfare in mainland Europe? or its Jungle Warfare in the Africa or South America and/or in Asia and the Far East, to Arctic and Mountain Warfare in either Northern Europe, Canada and Alaska or at the North and South Poles, let alone across the Himalayas too? Or Amphibious Warfare, Island hopping in the South and North Pacifica Oceans and across the South China Seas or in the Indian Oceans, or large scale Armoured Vehicle Warfare in the Deserts of North Africa and across the Middle East too. Or lastly carrying out Anti-Terrorism Warfare, or Airborne Assault Missions, plus Special Forces "Black Bag" Operations, anywhere in the World at any time and with little notice too. Military Smart Technology will only get you so far, sooner or later you need human boots and minds on the ground in the middle of battle, who are willing to fight and more importantly able to make human decisions whether to fight or not fight, or whether to withdraw or advance, or just take a different approach to a conflict, even holding talks with your enemy forces leaders too. AI systems will never replace a Soldier or Marines, or Special Forces operator and/or even a Para Human Mind, in the decision making process, especially when your so called Smart Military Technology breakdowns, or does not like the weather, heat or cold conditions, or just stops working, or the enemy is jamming your High Tech Systems too. Military Professional's, still need to be trained to fight and survive in combat, when everything does goes wrong, in other words "Murphy Laws" Basically Things will Go Wrong, at the Worst Possible Time and Place, then all you have is your training, knowledge, experencise and expertise to fall back on, so always be prepared to Adapt, Overcome and Improvise. The First Causality of Warfare, is the Battle Plan, even Military Smart Tech, cannot stop that from happening!

[@numan5976]

🫡

[@cestlextase]

kick out the tories

[@crunchysalad3094]

Maybe instead of spending billions on tech and the governments own pocket and increase military pay/accommodation there would be more people signing up🤷🏽 truth is no one's willing to risk dying for 1800 a month 😂😂🤦🏽

[@jasonking6892]

Why can't this be used on our borders especially with illegal immigrants Costing the UK 🇬🇧 2 Billion year What a joke 😂😂😂

[@johnbobson1557]

Yep, bloody marvellous... so how come the 20 most technically advanced armies with all this kit were roundly defeated in Afghanistan by illiterate goatherders on a donkey? Not American myself but we had similar malarkey in Vietnam and don't get me started on Israel's Gazan 'Wonderwall' with all it's gadgets..

[@Britishempire-hv6rb]

Because it was a politician war if we fought the war like we did the second world war we would have won

[@johnbobson1557]

@@Britishempire-hv6rb I'm unconvinced. With 10% excused boots for being overweight, 10% 'Commonwealth' trying to work a passport ... and most of the rest at 'diversity & inclusion' lectures or arguing over pronouns I think we've lost the plot entirely. Only an idiot these days would join HM Forces and I say this sadly as a 34 year veteran... born in Aldershot! We can wheel out a few fat burds blowing a trumpet for the King in red coats and get misty eyed over past glories but us Brits sneaking away from Basra at night is just about the best we can manage these days. Militarily we are next to useless.

[@Jet-mb1of]

In Afghanistan and Vietnam, the enemy knew their terrain and environment and used it very effectively. They were also hardened by the immensely tough lives they led in said environment. They were also fighting for their homeland in the face of invading forces, sometimes even hiding behind the women and children, knowing the majority of their invaders wouldn't want to open fire on them.

[@johnbobson1557]

@@Jet-mb1of Partly true but the puppet government in Kabul plus a significant sector of the Afghan population, who also knew the lay of the land, were supporting the Allied Coalition. Moreover Pakistan is host to an enormous population of Afghans fleeing the nation, as indeed now the Western nations are burdened with. Similarly Vietnam, which was a civil war with the corrupt President Diem and Thieu supported by the US & it's allies. The RVNAF were similarly fighting for their homeland against the NVA and indeed, though the VC hid behind women and children the US were never hesitant to open fire. Mai Lai being a good example. This led to most of the new recruits to the NVA being from the south! No matter how you look at it the soldiers of the Taliban and North Vietnam outclassed us by miles, despite our technical 'superiority'. This holds true today and watching the British Army sneak away from Basra in the night and the coalition fiasco as the Allies ran away is us, despite our bluster, today.

[@ryankeenan9282]

I would be a lot more impressed if you guys decided to defend your own borders.

[@MuhammadAkram-zq6xd]

uk is always stands with poor countries

[@mihalich7740]

Артиллерия (His Majesty Artillery!) - пробует и испытывает новинки - первыми! 😅😅😅 😂😂😂

[@AethelwulfOfNordHymbraLand2333]

Lol. Talking about unproven capabilities. It's like the school bully talking about how many hard men he's 'done in.'

[@vetondedushaj699]

A 500 dollar drone takes out a tank in Ukraine. How much are our military drones, 75 million dollars each.

[@JPEight]

Not all drones are the same, and no they are not 75 million. The Ukrainians were using cheap drones to drop grenades into open Russian tank hatches, but the drones the Russians are using to destroy western tanks are much more expensive than that.

[@jonr6680]

Research & testing, good. But the implied tactical benefits, less clear. Every scripted utterance has an unspoken caveat or counterpoint. Often painfully obvious from the visuals. Ststic, clunky slow-moving hardware. Complex tech, fragile tech... Cognitive overload thst is barely sustainable in training let alone a warzone. Degraded mobility carrying yet more pounds of hardware. Maintenance of the gadget. Set up times. Reliability! The real crucible (Ukraine) is right now, real time, life & death. Ultimately if nobody is willing to pay for the 10x costs (for dubious benefits), pointless.

[@TheStacato]

This is worrying if this is the direction the British Army wishes to take for the future. Combat in Ukraine has shown us that everything gets blown up or severely damaged within a couple of weeks or less. All this fancy, super delicate, high maintenance tech will be out of comission very quickly in heavy combat. The comms tech and battery charging in field for drones was great (though I don't like us being so open with what our future communications tech is for infantry in the field) given how effective and advantageous drones are for recon and combat roles. I feel like those large Rheinmetal UCVs would be a very expensive waste for something that would be destroyed/disabled on the frontline quite quickly, they could be used in a support/logistics role ferrying munitions or medical and food supplies with troops having more loiter munitions or fixed position electronically controlled weapons systems for fire support whilst assaulting.

[@liam7787]

Lost to the Taliban

[@patrick-tg4sq]

Still a joke the uk army blame the government