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Andy Lowery

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The Shawn Ryan Show
#299 Andy Lowery - Inside the World’s Most Advanced Drone Killing Machine

And so we've created simulators and emulators that look like you're in the fight.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#299 Andy Lowery - Inside the World’s Most Advanced Drone Killing Machine

It appears like you're doing it.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#299 Andy Lowery - Inside the World’s Most Advanced Drone Killing Machine

So when you go from the Fort Sill area over into the battlefield, you're not going to see any difference.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#299 Andy Lowery - Inside the World’s Most Advanced Drone Killing Machine

You're going to see the same sort of scenarios play out, one in simulation and one in real life.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#299 Andy Lowery - Inside the World’s Most Advanced Drone Killing Machine

As usual, I'm going to give you probably an answer that's a function of your question.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#299 Andy Lowery - Inside the World’s Most Advanced Drone Killing Machine

So the range is 100% dependent on the size of the system.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#299 Andy Lowery - Inside the World’s Most Advanced Drone Killing Machine

And you size the system, and then therefore the range, based upon the target that you're trying to protect.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#299 Andy Lowery - Inside the World’s Most Advanced Drone Killing Machine

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.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#299 Andy Lowery - Inside the World’s Most Advanced Drone Killing Machine

So you get a $3, $4 million tank blown up by a $10,000, $20,000 first-person viewer drone.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#299 Andy Lowery - Inside the World’s Most Advanced Drone Killing Machine

Those types of...

The Shawn Ryan Show
#299 Andy Lowery - Inside the World’s Most Advanced Drone Killing Machine

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

The Shawn Ryan Show
#299 Andy Lowery - Inside the World’s Most Advanced Drone Killing Machine

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.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#299 Andy Lowery - Inside the World’s Most Advanced Drone Killing Machine

SEWIS goes out to about one and a half kilometers.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#299 Andy Lowery - Inside the World’s Most Advanced Drone Killing Machine

If you look at the nominal range of what a close-in weapon system can defend, it's about 1.5 kilometers.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#299 Andy Lowery - Inside the World’s Most Advanced Drone Killing Machine

So we are like defending a ship, need about that size.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#299 Andy Lowery - Inside the World’s Most Advanced Drone Killing Machine

It's about a building size.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#299 Andy Lowery - Inside the World’s Most Advanced Drone Killing Machine

We need something in that range.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#299 Andy Lowery - Inside the World’s Most Advanced Drone Killing Machine

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.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#299 Andy Lowery - Inside the World’s Most Advanced Drone Killing Machine

Those ones are in that kind of manifold of range.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#299 Andy Lowery - Inside the World’s Most Advanced Drone Killing Machine

Since it's mobile, absolutely.