France's “historic” performance, as described by the report, is largely due to the sale of 80 Dassault Rafale F4 fighters and associated weapons to the UAE.

Authors of a new study see increasingly autonomous UAS as helping China limit the number of casualties it might face in a conflict and boost its industrial base.

France’s Defense Innovation Lab and the French Navy have recently been evaluating flight tests of a UAS prototype launched from a submarine.