Mike Baker

A Marine Expeditionary Unit.

You're using a standard blasting cap, which is something you already have on the ship if you're on a Mew.

and these things are commercial off the shelf now they don't work well at night because they don't have the night vision camera but it keeps them cheaper keeps them around five thousand dollars a shot i don't see us ever getting to ukraine where they're doing drones at six hundred dollars a shot but their economy is a little bit different so commercial off-the-shelf parts

That is ideal when manufacturing anything because your supply chain is a lot shorter.

Now the tolerances might be lower and people joke like, why does an Air Force toilet seat have to cost $250?

Well, have you ever decontaminated the toilet seat, right?

Can it work in a chemical environment?

Does it work when it's hot?

Does it work when it's extremely cold?

Can it survive a fall from a parachute, right?

So those are the questions that you kind of need to ask with military equipment.

But when you go into the commercial off the shelf area, is it good enough?

Is it good enough for the purposes that we're going to use it?

And we might need that high load mix.

We have the Lucas drones for targets that aren't that important, aren't that well defended.

I think that has about a 40 pound warhead on it.

And then you have the Tomahawk, which has a 1,000-pound warhead for targets that are really tough to get to or need a lot of explosive power.

So in some cases, the Lucas Drone can compensate for lack of Tomahawks or fill that gap until you can get production of more expensive weapons up to speed.

Do you imagine that in today's environment, look, obviously World War II is its own case study, but they were able to turn America into the arsenal of democracy in short order, right?

They enlisted the help of U.S.