Rachel Reeves has visited Wellington Barracks in central London after announcing in her Spring Statement that defence spending will increase by 2.5% in GDP. The chancellor and the defence secretary John Healey were shown the first AI-powered strike drone, as they learnt about the work of people on the strategic command's innovation unit. Report by Brooksl. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:16This is Katie.
00:17Hi Katie.
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00:19Mike Wilmots.
00:20Hello Mike.
00:21Good to see you again, Mike Wilmots.
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00:27So we are the sovereign UK in a four format.
00:28Yeah.
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00:31Right.
00:32Yeah.
00:33Infrastructure, climate change and sustainability as well.
00:34I'm going to show you two projects today which the teams will talk you through.
00:35Get hands on with these.
00:36There's one over there as well.
00:37You can fly as well.
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00:56Wow.
00:57You can additionally start learning in the simulator before you then start using the
00:58things that can actually break.
00:59What's fantastic about this is that most of this technology is all commercially available.
01:00Industry has created that product.
01:01We can repurpose that.
01:02It's out of the technology.