Donald J. Trump

That's what's going on in Ukraine.

They're able to take these cheap, very effective UAVs, tremendously effective, take advantage of all the power of computing, all the power of camera size, batteries are so much better.

Propulsion is so much better.

So what we're seeing and what the Navy is doing is looking at that as an example.

what are called requests for information and new proposals come out from the Marine Corps all the time.

We want ship-based, we want tank-based, we want reconnaissance-based UAVs.

Same with the Navy SEALs.

I've worked very closely with them.

They're interested because we call it digital crack.

Once you get it, once you see it, and once you're able to inculcate that in your everyday life,

It's a pattern of life that you can rely on and that you can go back and look at.

That's the key.

And that's the power that the Marine Corps, the Navy's looking at.

So, for instance, real quickly, when I did the escorts of the Reef Lake Hawaii tankers, if I'd had a UAV attached to the back of the ship at 400 feet, my visual horizon went from 11 miles to 40.

That's a significant delta in response time for small boats, for boats.

decoys for any number of different things.

That's the power of the UAV, is the persistence, the endurance, and the ability to coordinate with manned airplanes.

Captain Fennell, your naval intelligence, is Captain Morgan right?

Is this changing the nature of particularly surface warfare as we think about the Chinese Communist Party, who actually also are some of the world's experts in drone and drone warfare, sir?

Well, there's no question about it that we have to look at this technology and see how to marinize it to get it at sea.