Elbit Systems, an Israeli company with a UK subsidiary, has been given a  US$137 million contract by the UK Ministry of Defence to provide the British Armed Forces with the future target acquisition solution for Joint Terminal Attack Controllers and Fire Support Teams under the Dismounted Joint Fires Integrators (D-JFI) program. It is a five year contract.

That means it will find the enemy and provide the information to attack and eliminate the enemy, either through explosive wipe-out or precision fire. We do not know if it will make mistakes. It has already been tested by Israel, so it must be all right. It contains a grammatical mistake, for we are told that it has a technology called ”the Hattorix system for undetectable generation of high-precision targets”. Readers will have worked out that if the targets are undetectable, they will not be targets. But the point of the system will be to kill people automatically through artificial intelligence probably using drones and without putting our soldiers in danger, though the friends and relations of those killed will probably retaliate and take revenge in other ways.

Your Government thinks this contract is a good idea and a good way to spend your money.