{"id":684559,"date":"2026-07-10T17:02:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T17:02:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/684559\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T17:02:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T17:02:21","slug":"british-army-to-prepare-for-modern-warfare-with-2bn-ai-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/684559\/","title":{"rendered":"British Army to prepare for &#8216;modern warfare&#8217; with \u00a32bn AI training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A total of 100 apprenticeships will also be developed through the investment package, in partnership with Wiltshire College and the University of Staffordshire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The MoD said the roles would cover disciplines from data and modelling to project management.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Overall, the new system would help to deliver on the MoD&#8217;s ambition to increase the Armed Forces&#8217; readiness and progress transformation, it said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Simulation, live systems and analytics will be used as part of the new technology to enable soldiers to train anywhere at anytime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The training will use AI to replicate the complexity of modern warfare, according to the MoD, as well as spotting patterns, monitoring performance and supporting decision making.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;UK soldiers will be better prepared for modern warfare with a new training system that uses AI, advanced analytics and virtual environments to ready troops for rapidly evolving battlefields,&#8221; it said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The announcement comes less than two weeks after Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cwy0rw5dx1ko\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">announced a \u00a315bn increase in military spending.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A total of 100 apprenticeships will also be developed through the investment package, in partnership with Wiltshire College&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684560,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-684559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}