Brandon Tseng
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But yeah, again, what I'm like,
I'm very proud of that product because 100% used on some of the most important missions that this country does.
And 100%, you know, brought guys back home safely to their families.
And so I can't go into those missions, but missions where HBIDs went off, S-Vests went off, those types of missions where it's like if there had been guys inside that building, you know,
We all know what that looks like, or you and I know what that looks like.
Yeah, just simply it would go inside these buildings in terms of like the S-Vest world, right?
People will actually, drones had been hunting bad guys for 20 plus years and all of a sudden, right, the Americans show up with a drone that goes inside buildings.
And so we have seen terrorists see this thing come inside a building and clack themselves off.
You'd have trouble in like highly dusty conditions.
Our first generation product used a LIDAR, our first generation quadcopter.
And so LIDAR, when you're operating in dusty areas, it spins up a lot of, you know, particle sand in the air.
And every single time that LIDAR is scanning, it's getting a reflection back from that dust.
And so that caused a lot of challenges, a lot of headaches in the early days because simply, you know,
That's where our customer was operating in these dusty desert-like environments where people lived in mud huts or there's just sand in, you know, or there's war zones where there's just like dust everywhere.
And then when you fly a quadcopter that's spinning up all that dust, that would be a challenge.
Going through really small doorways and tunnel systems was another challenge because
When you like the wind vortices that these things are like when they're flying, it's sucking them into the wall because you're flying in such close proximity.
And so that's just like a controls challenge that we had to solve.
But those are like some of the headaches and problems that you have to solve where the customer uses it.
They're like, oh, what the hell?