During a NATO exercise in Greece, a variety of autonomous systems were used: land drones, aerial drones, swarm behaviors, and tunnel-crawling bots.
Missions included mines deployment, medical aid delivery, smoke-screen generation, and psychological operations.
Why it’s relevant for DoD: NATO’s push for autonomous innovation shows allied momentum, which can influence U.S. doctrine, funding, and interoperability. Autonomous systems are becoming more central to NATO’s future battlefield vision.
