Brandon Tseng

I actually would say that there's only two companies in the world, and I can't name the other company that's actually finding success there.

It's a Ukrainian company.

in these environments.

And that's from reporting from, you know, call it the warfighters out there in terms of like actually executing the ISR and targeting a mission.

Now, tactically, when you're talking like fiber optic connected quadcopters, where the GPS, like where you're tethered to something and you can fight in the, you know,

one to 10 kilometer range, yes, there's like a lot of tactical innovations happening on that end, but at like the strategic operational level, I'm proud that Shield AI stands alone.

It'd be incredibly difficult.

It would be incredibly, incredibly... I wouldn't say it'd be tactically feasible to actually execute.

You'd have to be proximal to...

the command station where these things, you'd have to know where they were flying, whether it's VBAT, whether it's XBAT.

And then you have to like get through encryption.

It's just not like the way to take out these systems are going to be kinetically using surface air missile systems.

And that's actually like, look, we've lost VBATs to surface air missile systems in Ukraine.

And I remember like, you know, we get a report back, hey, you know, S-300 shot down a VBAT.

I'm like,

all right, million-dollar missile for a $750,000 aircraft, I'll take that trade.

And so that's going to be the way that you see these systems that are able, drones that are able to survive that electronic warfare because they have an AI pilot on them, because they have our hive mind running on them.

The only way that you're going to be able to take them out is going to be kinetically.

If you want the best performance, you're going to want... The communication is very beneficial.

In the same way, if you... If we were a SEAL element, if you were a fire team leader and I was a fire team leader, if we have established communications, we can operate much better together.