Andy Lowery
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And so we've created simulators and emulators that look like you're in the fight.
It appears like you're doing it.
So when you go from the Fort Sill area over into the battlefield, you're not going to see any difference.
You're going to see the same sort of scenarios play out, one in simulation and one in real life.
As usual, I'm going to give you probably an answer that's a function of your question.
So the range is 100% dependent on the size of the system.
And you size the system, and then therefore the range, based upon the target that you're trying to protect.
If you're trying to protect a tank, you've seen maybe some videos of first-person viewers with fiber optic tethers on them hitting an Abrams tank in the back and blowing up the tank or whatever.
So you get a $3, $4 million tank blown up by a $10,000, $20,000 first-person viewer drone.
Those types of...
systems are like small right or relatively small like a big toolbox you know about as big as a big toolbox very dense the electronics and then the range though is maybe 50 meters but a tank's not going to need much more than about 50 meters by our calculations and so you've got certain size ones that have ranges at that low of a level and then you have ones that have the need to go much much bigger than that if you're trying to defend a base or a
or an airfield or an embassy or any of those sort of things, then you're going to need at least what you see in kind of a lot of other different protective systems where you're out at like SEWIS.
SEWIS goes out to about one and a half kilometers.
If you look at the nominal range of what a close-in weapon system can defend, it's about 1.5 kilometers.
So we are like defending a ship, need about that size.
It's about a building size.
We need something in that range.
So the big one you see out there that we kind of toured around and take a look at, that one is for the embassies, for the fixed targets, what sometimes they're called the point defense type applications.
Those ones are in that kind of manifold of range.
Since it's mobile, absolutely.