Andy Lowery
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So we're steering the beam kind of like in a laser light show.
You know how they can steer one laser and make like a whole shape.
We're steering the beam so quickly that the drones that are falling prey to us think that they're all over, like the beam's all over.
But what we're really doing is very quickly on the time scale, moving the beam around in whatever pattern the drones require us to do.
So we're not going to throw away energy.
Like if there's not a drone there, we're not going to
pointed in that direction will shape the basically force field for whatever sort of targets that are out there in front of us.
Exactly.
That's a great way of putting it.
Shit, that's badass.
It's tip of the spear tech.
It really is.
And it's why I told you at the beginning, I love learning.
I love being part of something that's so advanced, even in some ways controversial.
We have our naysayers out there.
We have the folks that say... Controversial?
I don't have too many people that say, hey, let's forget about this counter drone problem.
I don't think it's going to be a problem in a couple of years.
I think most people are wedded to the idea that drones are here and here to stay, and they're a really big problem.
But there's all kinds of opinions of what the best way to solve the problem, right?