Erik Prince

With that charge, that you can fly out to 10, 20, 30 kilometers and drive it into a tank, an artillery piece, a command bunker, into a trench.

It's democratized force.

It's democratized precision strike, literally down to one man.

So you can carry six of those drones in your backpack, patrol up,

and go to work.

Well, I know the US military is not paying attention to it, certainly not learning the lessons from it.

And our assumptions of all of our stuff, right?

Because we've spent hundreds of billions, trillions of dollars on defense stuff.

And it's all very subject to being obsolesced by that level of speed and precision and ability to deliver very dangerous kinetic strikes.

I think there's a window right now of two or three years where advantage has gone to the offense, the guy flying the pilots.

Something as simple as nets, big cargo nets around your stuff, stops that.

Stops the small drone.

Hard kill solutions will be developed.

Hard kill like air bursting rounds.

Drones that kill other drones.

But again, economics is a huge factor in warfare and trying to be affordable is not something the U.S.

has ever been very good at.

Yes, there's certainly a lot being spent across the spectrum.

But we both know one of the things that is prevalent on the battlefield is smoke and dust.

Lasers don't do so well in smoke and dust.