National Security & Strategic Competition
Dozens of lethal and kinetic autonomous weapon systems are fielded and deployed today, increasingly blurring the boundary between who or what makes life-and-death decisions.
01 — The spectrum of human control
Each system in this dataset can select a target or complete an engagement with some level of autonomy. What separates them is where in the kill chain human judgment is absent — and whether anyone retains a real opportunity to intervene.
02 — The systems
No systems match those filters.
03 — The landscape
Origin and national operator counts diverge sharply — these systems export widely. The landscape view breaks the dataset down by country of origin, by national operator, by domain and by autonomy class, and lists the manufacturers behind each producing state.
Open the landscape