weaponry

Ukraine has long been urging its Western allies to provide it with enough advanced air defence weaponry to be able to cope with almost daily Russian strikes.

He said it would be "perverse to provide anybody, whether an individual or a state with weaponry, then get upset when they use it to do harm".

However, four months later First Minister John Swinney announced that the policy on munitions had been lifted in light of the "changed international landscape" with the exception of firms that supplied weaponry to Israel.

Zelensky called for international rules around AI and its role in weaponry, and said the development of autonomous drones and unmanned planes represented a far greater risk than traditional warfare.

The mood music among the military is that investing more in huge, astronomically expensive vessels like aircraft carriers is risky when they could be taken out by new weaponry like hypersonic missiles or drone ships.