Brandon Tseng

It's that strike mission, um, or a air to air mission, uh,

just differently and so that can be with human pilots augmenting them and i think that's how it'll go in the early days and you know from there yeah if you extrapolate you know the rate of innovation around ai and autonomy um i think you get to like really interesting places again down the line where you start to replace some of these systems do you i mean is there going to be any

Yeah, they'll augment.

They'll be part of that human machine team.

They will.

um augment uh the pilots i you know look i think something like and that will be like the first iteration then uh the u.s military started experimenting with like okay let's just have these systems run on their own and execute missions but like if you like i think the mission is going to dictate like what the uh the force requirement is in the sense like you're

we want to send in a package of F-35s and expats into this operation or F-22s and expats.

I think you're going to see some missions where it's like, look, just send in, you know, some expats, see like, you know, see what happens.

And they can run certain missions independently and then certain missions as human machine teams.

Um, yeah, I think it's good.

Like, look again, I think it's going to be the threat environment.

And so if you're going up against like the worst threat environment imaginable, like, so I would say like, you could imagine a strike mission where.

You know, intelligence estimates that there's a limited number of surface-to-air missile systems, but there's a complexity to the type of mission in terms of the effects that they want to have, where it's like, you want to put pilots up in the air.

And then there could be a mission where it's like, look, it's a simple mission, but it's a target that is like...

hell for any aviator because the number of surface-to-air missile systems in the area are a ridiculous amount.

We know they're mobile.

We don't know exactly where they are.

You might basically go stimulate that environment by sending unmanned systems first, things like the expat first.

Got you.

Got you.