Andy Lowery

It had like only nine or 10 elements and had these huge antennas.

It was, it looks like, I don't know if you've ever seen the pictures of like the first meta glasses or Apple, you know, does the augmented reality stuff.

They just look like Frankensteins.

They're not

They're not down in the right form factor.

They don't have all the performance figured out yet.

That's what the team built in that COVID period.

They built their very, very first prototype of the Leonidas.

And they weren't entirely sure how it would even be incorporated or what service would want to go after it and all of that.

And it was a big risk.

It really was.

But the foresight that Grant and Joe had was pretty remarkable, really remarkable.

We have platforms.

And right now, we have the platform called Leonidas.

Now, when I say that, people focus on the directed energy machine, but it's really a whole series of different things.

We have to have, first of all, layers.

You're never going to get a panacea against this kind of threat.

You're not going to get one system that

works in all situations counter drone.

You're always going to have various layers and various technologies.