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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 engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defence of the nation,” states the preface of The Technological Republic, a new book by Alex Karp, which can be viewed as a manifesto for the fast-rising industry. The business, which is focused on autonomous systems and weapons – including the Thunderbird-like Fury war fighter – is building a manufacturing facility in Ohio and is also reportedly planning a drone factory in the UK to serve as a European base. Broader acquisitions are not made until the technology has been put into the hands of operators to test, said a DIU spokesperson: “They provide the unvarnished opinion on whether [it] works as promised, addresses defence problem sets and would be useful in key scenarios.”
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