Brandon Tseng
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XBAT is a first of its kind vertical takeoff launch and land multi-role combat strike jet platform that is AI piloted.
It is the first,
airplane in the history of airplanes that has both, it doesn't require a runway and doesn't require a human pilot.
It's AI piloted and it doesn't, it's vertical takeoff launch and land.
And from that, there are a massive number of benefits to the platform.
One of the big benefits, right, if I talk to the geographic combatant commanders, right, these are the four stars, admirals and generals running INDOPACOM, running UCOM,
that are posed with the strategic problem, how do you deter our adversaries and, if necessary, fight to defeat our adversaries, they would tell you the value of Exbat comes from the ability to create a massive number of dilemmas by having geographically distributed long-range fires that can be launched from anywhere
on the battlefield and so now we're you know an adversary like China has to worry about these fixed runways and a couple air you know the United States has 11 aircraft carriers we have to worry about you know a couple fixed runways and
And these aircraft carriers, now all of a sudden they have to worry about every, you know, 20 foot by 20 foot spot of earth on the planet.
And that is, you know, why does that matter?
Now it basically forces them to redefine their invasion calculus.
If you don't know where America's assets are,
especially our aerial assets, which are our number one conventional strategic deterrent, it's gonna force you to rethink your war plans.
It buys diplomacy another day.
On the other side of the coin of what I would tell you about,
XBAT, and this is like, again, I want to be super clear, like XBAT is going to augment, you know, fighter pilots for, you know, quite some time.
But like when I look at something like the Joint Strike Fighter, it is an incredible capability.
Like if you actually like dig into like what that capability offers the USA, it's amazing.
But it requires runways.
It requires hardened bunkers.