Brandon Tseng

First operation ever flew.

GPS communications was jammed.

I don't think people realize it.

It's completely jammed in Ukraine on the battlefield.

And so every mission that we've done, GPS and comms has been jammed.

But our first mission that we did, actually fun, the interesting part of the story is, like one of the interesting parts is,

One of the assumptions we made was that we asked them like, look, we're going to, you know, near the front, is GPS going to be jammed on takeoff?

They said, no, like it's not going to be jammed on takeoff.

So we go out to operate and lo and behold, GPS is jammed on takeoff on this mission we're supposed to execute.

VBAT starts flying in another direction, right?

Because of GPS jamming, because we had assumed it was going to be available just for takeoff.

And what ends up happening is six hours of our team driving through Ukraine, kind of like the movie Interstellar when they're going through the cornfields trying to capture the drone.

That's what our team did.

They land it.

Ukraine was like, yeah, I didn't think it was going to work on the battlefield.

We're like, well, you guys gave us a bad assumption.

Within 24 hours, team worked it.

They came up with a software solution, right?

It was just like basically changing an assumption, tested it in Texas, pushed the software update to Ukraine.

Next day, we said, hey, give us, you know, we want to retake this mission, execute the mission.