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#247 Brandon Tseng – Shield AI’s X-BAT: The First AI Fighter Jet to Outsmart Top Gun
So, um, but yeah, it launches lands like a space X rocket.
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#247 Brandon Tseng – Shield AI’s X-BAT: The First AI Fighter Jet to Outsmart Top Gun
Again, our, our head of aircraft or Harris, I feel like he was just built for developing this aircraft, but worked, uh, as a principal engineer on the Falcon nine launch and land, and then was doing star link star shield, uh, working with Elon, um, and just wanted to work on the air layer and build a next generation aircraft.
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#247 Brandon Tseng – Shield AI’s X-BAT: The First AI Fighter Jet to Outsmart Top Gun
So, yeah.
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#247 Brandon Tseng – Shield AI’s X-BAT: The First AI Fighter Jet to Outsmart Top Gun
What is that hole in the front?
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#247 Brandon Tseng – Shield AI’s X-BAT: The First AI Fighter Jet to Outsmart Top Gun
So that's the intake up there.
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#247 Brandon Tseng – Shield AI’s X-BAT: The First AI Fighter Jet to Outsmart Top Gun
So air intake for the engine.
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#247 Brandon Tseng – Shield AI’s X-BAT: The First AI Fighter Jet to Outsmart Top Gun
And yeah, that's what it is.
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#247 Brandon Tseng – Shield AI’s X-BAT: The First AI Fighter Jet to Outsmart Top Gun
Yeah, not much more to it.
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#247 Brandon Tseng – Shield AI’s X-BAT: The First AI Fighter Jet to Outsmart Top Gun
Where do all the weaponry... So you've got internal and hard points on the other sides of the wings there.
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#247 Brandon Tseng – Shield AI’s X-BAT: The First AI Fighter Jet to Outsmart Top Gun
Those are the weapons bay for, again, carrying basically...
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#247 Brandon Tseng – Shield AI’s X-BAT: The First AI Fighter Jet to Outsmart Top Gun
Any weapon, you can carry LRASMs, long-range anti-ship missiles.
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#247 Brandon Tseng – Shield AI’s X-BAT: The First AI Fighter Jet to Outsmart Top Gun
You can carry air-to-air missiles, air-to-ground missiles.
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#247 Brandon Tseng – Shield AI’s X-BAT: The First AI Fighter Jet to Outsmart Top Gun
You can carry bombs.
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#247 Brandon Tseng – Shield AI’s X-BAT: The First AI Fighter Jet to Outsmart Top Gun
Again, very much think of it as like the same thing that you would find on a fighter aircraft in terms of its weapon payload.
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#247 Brandon Tseng – Shield AI’s X-BAT: The First AI Fighter Jet to Outsmart Top Gun
The unique thing and one of the differentiating things about this, besides being vertical takeoff, launch, and land, but if I were to compare it to some of the other new CCA capabilities that you've seen built, those aircraft are using business jet engines, and so they can't generate the electrical power to run
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#247 Brandon Tseng – Shield AI’s X-BAT: The First AI Fighter Jet to Outsmart Top Gun
fifth generation, sixth generation sensor suites and electronic attack payloads.
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#247 Brandon Tseng – Shield AI’s X-BAT: The First AI Fighter Jet to Outsmart Top Gun
And so electronic warfare being a massive aspect of the battlefield today, right?
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#247 Brandon Tseng – Shield AI’s X-BAT: The First AI Fighter Jet to Outsmart Top Gun
Jamming enemy GPS, jamming enemy communications, things that something like the F-18 Growler would be doing, we can also do that mission.
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#247 Brandon Tseng – Shield AI’s X-BAT: The First AI Fighter Jet to Outsmart Top Gun
And so it's like, look, even, you know, if you were to go Winchester on the weapons on this aircraft, you still have your electronic attack abilities.
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#247 Brandon Tseng – Shield AI’s X-BAT: The First AI Fighter Jet to Outsmart Top Gun
And so you're still playing a role in the fight.