Frontline Goes Digital: UK Troops Experiment With New Battlefield Network System

UK soldiers are experimenting with new battlefield technologies in Latvia as part of “Exercise Forest Guardian,” a NATO-linked deployment near the Russian border.

The goal: test whether a wired-up battlefield, where drones, robots, and artillery share a common picture, can speed up targeting and keep troops safer.

At the heart of the trials is Arondite Ltd.’s Cobalt battlefield management system, which links unmanned systems and fire support assets into a shared network.

Read the full story on NextGen Defense: Inside the UK’s Drone-Robot-Artillery Network Experiment