Mike Baker

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.

manufacturing, particularly the automotive industry, and suddenly we're cranking out tanks and Jeeps.

But are we still capable of doing that?

Because what I'm wondering is,

you know, are we able to take that timeline, 42 to 64 months, and shrink it to a meaningful degree, right?