Andy Lowery
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Like I was telling someone when I was in the Navy, you know, when I'd go out overseas, you know, I'd bring warfighters like you over there.
But I was just driving the airport, you know, running the nuclear plants underneath.
And when my wife would say, are you going to be hurt?
Are you going to be injured?
I said, no, no, we're sitting on an airport, you know, way out in the water.
There's no way anything's getting to us.
You know, inland, those are the guys having all the risk.
You can't say that anymore.
Everything's a target now.
Now, ships have pretty good close-in defensive networks like the Sea Whizzes we were talking about earlier and all that, but it's not improbable or even un-sort of imaginable for a carrier or something like that to become susceptible to a drone attack.
It just is a new way of warfare.
Yeah, I think there is a potentiality.
for these types of systems, and as they evolve into more and more and better and better capabilities, for them to become almost as ubiquitous as radars.
I mean, when we built radars back in the 40s and 50s, we had, I mean, there was a lot of people poo-pooing them, saying, oh, you know, radars, they're just a fad.
They're going to come and go.
But, you know, now radars are everywhere.
They're, like, everywhere.
Everybody has a radar.
I had a radar on my little...
I had a ranger tug for a while in the Columbia River.