Brandon Tseng

do fine on takeoff, executing the mission, comms GPS jam the entire time, target an SA-11 Bukovil surface-to-air missile system.

Ukrainians call in HIMARS airburst round, destroys the Bukovil, target a second SA-11 Bukovil surface-to-air missile system.

HIMARS misses due to GPS jamming.

The effectiveness of US weapon systems is really poor.

um in these gps jammed environments um so that leads to letters of request from the us government and then um president takes office and right stops you know funding which is you know again like i'm i'm fine with the the decision as like an american taxpayer i understand it right as shield ai we're like oh my god we're at the finish line and then like

um you know we're about to deliver capability thankfully europeans uh uh step up to the plate they get v-bat aircraft over there and then we go through training with the ukrainians january to march and since april they have been absolutely um lethal with uh the system um and so um

God, there was like a two-week period where we were executing four to six strikes every day or enabling four to six strikes every single day, destroyed hundreds of millions of dollars of Russian equipment.

It's a capability that they had never had long-range ISR and targeting before.

They were fighting a very tactical fight, but now with this capability to penetrate deeper into enemy-held territory while GPS, while comms is jammed, they were finding targets that they had been looking for for six, nine months they couldn't find.

Wow.

And so, again, super proud of the impact that we've played there, and as we think about

You know, when we talk to them now, they're like, man, if we had been able to put up a bunch of these on our border, right, and knowing that every single VBAT's tied into some sort of long-range weapon system, you could deter your adversaries.

And so as we look to, you know, the Pacific, that's something that we think about a lot.

We see that out of, you know, a country like Taiwan that is absolutely trying to deter adversaries.

It's like, well, you have to have the equipment that the adversary respects to deter them.

And so...

I'm thankful that VBAT is one of these things that has been battlefield proven.

And to the point where I'm just going to hammer home in on again, there aren't other US companies doing this.

They are not having success in these GPS and comms jammed environments.

It is a very hard problem.