A Challenger 2 tank during a training exercise in Salisbury, UK Finnbarr Webster/Getty Images
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has bought a quantum computer in the hope that the technology can be installed in battlefield tanks, says , the CEO of Orca Computing. Orca announced the deal with the MoD this week, but the initial focus is on research and training.
鈥淭his device we’re shipping to them certainly won’t do anything a classical computer won鈥檛, and I suppose, in that view, it’s a research tool,鈥 says Murray. 鈥淭here’s a lot of activity being funded at the moment on upskilling them, getting them familiar with the…
