The Royal Navy’s carriers are designed for 36 combat jets, HMS Prince of Wales is currently deployed with around half that, Project Vanquish is the Royal Navy’s bold gambit to jump its carrier air wing into the uncrewed age. The Ministry of Defence is asking industry for a jet-turbine, high-subsonic, fixed-wing Short Take-Off and Landing autonomous collaborative platform capable of launching and recovering to a Queen Elizabeth-class carrier without catapults or arrestor wires. A positive step in the new First Sea Lord’s pursuit of lethal mass.