The Royal Air Force’s Air Warfare Centre will integrate a fully autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) into military exercises to help the British armed forces better understand the benefits this capability can bring to the joint battlespace.
The program, dubbed Project Morrigan, will bring together BAE Systems’ new High Endurance Rapid Technology Insertion (HERTI) UAV with the Air Warfare Centre’s recently created Unmanned Air Vehicle Battlelab in an agreement that will, initially, run for two years.
Although the work will provide only early stage assessments of capability, it could have a significant impact on the way air warfare capabilities and doctrine develop in the future, according to Commodore Tim Anderson, commandant of the Air Warfare Centre.
“Through the integration of a HERTI system into existing U.K. military exercises and training events, such as the operational flying phase of our combined qualified weapon instructor training, we plan to derive measurements of capability and potential tactics, techniques and procedures for the integration of UAVs into joint manned/unmanned force structures,” Anderson said.

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