Unmanned Air Systems: Training

(asked on 13th May 2025) - View Source

Question to the Ministry of Defence:

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, whether he plans to increase the weight of drone that armed forces personnel are permitted to pilot during training.


Answered by
Luke Pollard Portrait
Luke Pollard
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Ministry of Defence)
This question was answered on 19th May 2025

There is no maximum weight of an Uncrewed Aerial System which an operator can use during military training.

UK Service personnel are routinely training with uncrewed systems that range in weight from grammes to tonnes.

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