“As Programme Director for Force Protection Experimentation (FPX), I am delighted that the RAF Force Protection Centre has partnered with Defence Science and Technology Laboratories, Exeter University, and industry on this project.  In close-combat, our Force Protection operators are required to make split-second decisions.  When operating around complex airfields, packed with people and high value air systems, a great deal of discrimination must be applied in deciding when and how to operate our weapon systems.  Failure to make the correct decision, in an instant, could inadvertently cost the lives of those we are entrusted to protect. More broadly, it could result in the failure of the Air mission..”