Ethan Thornton

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The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe · 497: Ethan Thornton—I Like a Lotta Problems · 4 Aug 2026 podcast

It's basically like 40 foot wingspan, near vertical takeoff aircraft.

So basically the goal is within the area, helicopter takes off, take off within that area.

And I'll get to why we don't just take off vertically and then carry a thousand pound payload about 1400 miles.

So...

The biggest vehicle we've shipped to date is 13 feet.

We got asked to bid on this.

I frankly didn't really expect to win on it, but we did a lot of work to get an architecture together I'm super excited for.

We just won it.

So now we're standing up all the functions to go and deliver on that.

That's a lot of work right now.

That aircraft is super exciting though.

So like when you think about, it's called Atlas.

When you think about the future of warfare, I think that the key thing to understand is that there will be massive decentralized strike capability.

So adversaries and the US will have the ability to use unmanned systems to strike basically anywhere from things that aren't a centralized location.

decades before it's a great question i think a ton and i think it's it's important to discuss and get into each of those i think the first is that centralized assets are a lot more at risk and we see this i mean we see this a lot for example ukraine this is ukraine's playbook 101 right so operation spiderweb probably about a year and a half ago now russia had their strategic bombers in russia basically their airfields

Ukraine snuck a couple of shipping containers into Russia and launched quadcopters from those shipping containers and Knocked out who knows the actual number but a significant portion of one copter is a drone with four with four prop rotors Basically, exactly.

It's a great question.

So first off, look, I don't think age has much to do with it.

And I think there are folks who brag about getting things done at a certain age.

And then there are folks who get discredited about doing further things at a certain age.

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