Donald J. Trump

By the way, like I said, we're going to cut to the naval exercise as soon as it happens.

It should be shortly also back on the main stage.

Captain Morgan, I think people have been surprised, at least, you know, civilians have been surprised about the lethality and reach of drones when you talk about the war in Ukraine.

Now you've got the Russians and the Ukrainians pounding each other every night, principally with drones.

You've had this incredible strike by the Ukrainians.

Now, was it coordinated with American intelligence?

Probably out of Wiesbaden.

But they went in, I think, 2,000 miles into Russia.

They took out part, at least half of the third leg of the nuclear triad, the strategic bomber, something Curtis LeMay couldn't even...

Think about is the is the army or what's happening on on ground, particularly in Ukraine, is the Navy, the Navy SEALs and the Marine Corps.

Are we a little behind the power curve or are we thinking about this in an advanced state for naval warfare and prepared to do the acquisitions you need to actually make this happen?

The Navy was behind when I was a program manager.

There's no way around it.

The Army got me back into the fight, by the way.

We deployed Raven A's, Raven B's with SOCOM.

We did a lot of

chumming off of what the army had done i i actually deployed shadows with the marine corps in advance we got rid of pioneers the army actually gave me a shadow battalion to deploy and i paid them back two years later and that's the spirit of of the cooperation that we had with the army the key for us in the the ability and what they've shown in the ukrainian theater over land is

is swarming and we call it the tyranny not only of distance, but the tyranny of nearness.

So, you know, swarming at distance is very difficult, right?

The endurance of the smalls and the endurance of swarms, you're swarming your next door neighbor's pool.