Trae Stephens
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And so crewed helicopters or crews, they're tremendously at risk.
And so basically the same way that we approached Fury, the collaborative combat aircraft that we can talk about as well, we just rolled our first unit off the line to the Air Force earlier this week.
But the same kind of concept with collaboration with manned crews is what we're talking about here, except with helicopters instead of with fireplanes.
So that process is fully in flight.
We've been working on this project for years now.
We've completed test flights with a full-scale surrogate, and we're planning for Thunder's first flight for next year in 2027.
Yeah, you can kind of think about the helicopter pilot, whether it's an Apache or whatever.
They're like Ender in Ender's Game.
And they have this fleet of autonomous vehicles that they can kind of command and control from the cockpit of their own aircraft.
And
There's this really cool anime video that's the third in a series that just came out when we did the launch last week, and it kind of explains the concept of operations for this, which is you don't want to be putting the Apache and the human beings in the helicopter in harm's way when you're engaging with all of these autonomous assets.
that are creating risk out forward.
So you want these to be able to go out and take shots, give you a better sensor view of things, or even become attributable and take the shot for you so that you're not the one that's eating that missile they are.
Well, at some point, it becomes non-attributable, right?
Sure.
The danger of an aircraft carrier is that there are 5,000 service members on a $20-plus billion vehicle that can be destroyed by a single missile.
That's a bad trade.
We don't want to be doing that.
But to the extent that there are assets that are physically larger but would be better suited to robots, yeah, I think that's very much in play.
The DOW has been talking for a long time about autonomous tanker aircraft for aerial refueling.
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