Brandon Tseng

It requires a $10 million pilot just to be certified on flying it, not even making them an expert at that system.

When we became Navy SEALs, we weren't expert Navy SEALs on day one.

$10 million to make you just dangerous enough with the aircraft.

It is limited range.

I want to say it's around like 550 nautical mile combat radius.

And so if you want to employ joint strike fighter in the Pacific where there are 1,000 nautical mile ranges, you have to have refueling tankers.

And because of the threat environment, we've built autonomous refueling tankers, which is another expensive capability.

You have built a refueling tanker?

No, no, no, we did.

The USA has built refueling tankers for these Joint Strike Fighters.

And then the platform itself is $100 million.

So when you look at the all-in total cost of capability for the Joint Strike Fighter, again, amazing capability.

It's wildly expensive.

It's estimated $200 million to $250 million per aircraft when you look at all these add-on capabilities, not to mention the total lifecycle cost of it, the hourly cost of operating at $35,000 an hour.

Expat, vertical takeoff, launch, and land, no runways.

It is AI pilot, so no human pilot.

It has a 2,100 nautical mile range with mission payload.

And so you have massive range.

We're targeting $27.5 million per pop on it with a $6,000 per hour operating cost for the aircraft.

And so you're getting,