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

Again, though, artillery, once you launch it, has something that can be back-targeted.

So if I shoot a bullet out of my gun or if I launch a missile out of my artillery system, someone can take that out with the drone quite quickly.

Whereas with this, by the time I launch something, there's nothing to shoot back against.

um now this flies about 10 times further than an artillery shell with the same warhead and then it actually costs the same amount as a guided artillery shell so i'm pretty excited about this now this use case will expand over time and these aircraft will look quite different both follow the same general principle of vertical takeoff eventually vertical landing surface to surface surface to air and likely dropping things and you're making these down the street here

We are.

Yeah, Glide.

Glide we talk less about, but it's a very long range munition.

So it's very low cost and can put fires hundreds to thousands of miles down range.

All right.

We don't talk a lot about glide.

Balloons, fixed wing aircraft, and hydrogen.

Now, hydrogen was stupid, but it got a lot of attention early on because it was different.

So like MIT was willing to help me do research on it.

The military was like eager to do research on it.

But like very quickly, once we had the capital to ship products,

Didn't make sense to work on.

And some of my assumptions about hydrogen were quite wrong.

Hydrogen sucks, just generally.

Yeah.

I like methane more than hydrogen.

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