Brandon Tseng

So shield AI is very deliberate about the hardware that we build Has to be absolutely transformative for V bat V bat was hey, we're gonna transform ISR and targeting, right?

We need

more intelligence, my crystal, very famous for saying intelligence drives operations.

Like if we can transform ISR and targeting with feedback, like that's why we decided to buy VBAT and go with it.

Um, but we're not looking to build 26 different hardware products out there.

Like we are an AI and autonomy company.

We build amazing aircraft.

Um, and we have these great assets.

We have a software engineering asset.

That's world-class.

We have a hardware engineering assets.

That's world-class since we had to ask ourselves,

okay, we've done VBAT, what's next?

What's the next piece of hardware that we wanna build?

Do we wanna build a one-way attack drone?

Do we wanna build a USV, a maritime platform?

Do we wanna build a hypersonic missile?

And so after great deliberation and great credit to our head of aircraft, head of our aircraft business, Armour Harris, came from SpaceX,

came up with this thing called the XBAT.

And so what is XBAT?