Ethan Thornton

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1,249 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 4 Aug

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And this applies to every industry, but I think it's quite important in defense.

And one shot head can be taken down by something about 10 times cheaper if that thing is architected correctly.

So if China's stockpiling shot heads, you better stockpile that thing.

But you can spend 10 times less.

And that's like critical for us to do so.

And then the other piece is flexibility of manufacturing.

I think folks often think about, there we go, there's an Iranian shot head.

What's it do?

Um, so it takes off and flies, flies a long ways and then nosedives and delivers a warhead.

And the U.S.

makes these and it's important in the U.S.

makes these right now.

And we actually helped make the U.S.

version of this.

But this is like a transient thing.

Like we can't be making this in three years.

And so on engineering, you need you need to build products that provide asymmetry.

And then on manufacturing, you have to be able to keep pace with that innovation.

So like someone could have the full design for Viper today.

And I truly believe I could send them the CAD file and it would be 18 months before they could produce it at scale.

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