Silicon Valley is learning from #Ukraine

Move fast, kill things: the tech startups trying to reinvent defence with Silicon Valley values

Venture capital-backed, $1bn companies are disrupting the way war will be waged with AI and futuristic weapons. Will they overthrow the traditional big military manufacturers, and what would that mean for the battlefield?

The company has agreements to supply its drones to the US defence department, as well as 24 US allies, and they have been used by the Ukrainian military fighting Russia. “It is an absolute certainty that small, inexpensive, software-defined systems with rapid iteration are the future of defence,” says Adam Bry, Skydio’s co-founder and chief executive
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