Col. Hamish de Bretton-Gordon OBE

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TRIGGERnometry · Britain Isn't Ready For A Real War - Col. Hamish de Bretton-Gordon OBE · 5 Aug 2026 podcast

We still need...

we still need the human in the loop.

And certainly the way we've envisioned it with tanks, you'll have one Challenger 3 or one Abrams or whatever, but then tethered to it will be hundreds of autonomous vehicles.

And that creates the combat power.

So although at the beginning I've decried the fact we're only getting 148 Challenger 3s,

If we have several thousand drones that can be controlled and manipulated by the Challenger 3s, then we can get there.

And I sort of use Ajax, the recce vehicle, as an explainer.

When all throughout my military career, our recce vehicle was something, the CVRT, the scimitar.

Fairly small recce vehicle with a few sensors, but a troop.

three or four cimeters would cover a frontage about three kilometers.

Now, one Ajax with its digital turret, its sensors, and its drones, one troop of three or four Ajax will cover 60 or 70 kilometers.

So you've got a massive increase in capability there.

So I think autonomous, the other element, the other human you need in the loop, ground.

so you'll hear people saying holding ground you still need something physical there it's and it's about endurance i mean things are getting better um you know one of my reasons for saying that the tank will endure you know i've been on operations in tanks where we haven't refueled or anything or stopped for 48 hours now

At the moment, we don't have drones that have that endurance.

I'm sure we will do.

And we don't have other capabilities.

So once you've held ground, you still need humans there.

But I think autonomy is exactly where it is going.

And AI will enable it.

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