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

On some timeline, we do have to produce more.

Now, the issue is it takes a while to build a supply chain.

It takes longer to build a labor force.

And we're behind China in that regard.

And so, yes, in the absolute near term, as you talk about hardened military power, I think the goal needs to be asymmetry through innovation.

And that's really what I found in Mach to do out of the gate.

Exactly.

And so, look, I think the best way to think about exactly what I'm saying is I think by properly...

pushing as fast as possible on drone development, you can have things where if I spend a dollar and you're China and you spend $10, I have the advantage on the battlefield.

And so innovation is pushing on drones.

Asymmetry is my dollar gets further than your dollar, which correlates to my machine, my operator gets further than your operator.

Absolutely.

So we don't know the exact numbers, but it was on the order of 100 to 200 quadcopters and several billion dollars of Russian, basically strategic bombers.

And those quadcopters probably cost on the order of a few thousand dollars a piece.

And you see similar things.

So like one of the products we're working on as a company, it's called Pike.

It's a long range, basically long range cruise missile.

Now, the interesting thing is we can fit

a lot of them into a shipping container, into a 20-foot shipping container.

And each one of those can go about 1,000 miles and disable a ship.

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