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

What?

Tactical is an easier plastics problem.

When you want something to be able to expand a lot and be at high altitude and be in the sun and do a bunch of other things.

Anyway, harder than you think, old technology, it was not possible to do this with balloons though, until like probably 10 years ago.

And so the really interesting thing though, is if you can put enough of these up, it can sort of form the backbone of your force structure in many ways.

Because you can sense everywhere, you can talk everywhere,

And I want to be clear, we hate releasing PowerPoints and renders.

So the products you'll see have flown a lot.

And most of them will be hitting rate production, and a few of them Battlefield use this year.

So this is kind of the stuff we've already done or in the process of doing.

It is.

And there are times where you have to do it.

So like Atlas, we released a render.

We had to announce that contract and we wanted to announce that contract to go and build it.

I think you need to build the right to do that.

If you've never built anything and you're like, here's all this cool stuff I'm going to go and do.

No one's going to believe you and they shouldn't believe you.

And so I think when you're a young company, you need to show, not tell, it's the catchphrase we use a lot.

This is Pike.

Now this Pike, as I mentioned, looks vastly different than the next Pike.

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