The MOD's Lightweight Affordable Novel Combat Aircraft (LANCA) initiative aims to develop low-cost, uncrewed fighter drones. UK MOD / Crown Copyright Seventy years ago, Britain confronted a dilemma. It wanted to remain a leading military power but no longer had the economic resources to sustain all the conventional capabilities it had inherited from the second world war. The solution proposed in the 1957 Sandys defence white paper was technological. Guided missiles, Duncan Sandys argued, were tr