Trae (Trey) Stephens

I guess all of the stuff that we're working on right now is really exciting.

I think all the counter-air programs are incredibly important, and you can see in all of the things that have happened from a global conflict perspective over the last five years or something are very driven by shooting down autonomous assets as being the most important thing that you can do.

And we've been leaning in really heavily on that as well.

So I think there are a lot of challenges.

And, you know, the beauty of being Andoril is that our value add is speed.

And so, you know, we want to be able to iterate quickly as we see the threats changing in the field.

Yeah, so it's called a collaborative combat aircraft.

So the idea is that you have a manned aircraft like an F-22 or an F-35, and the pilot can basically command a bunch of smaller aircraft that fly around it to go and conduct different missions.

So you extend sensor range, you extend shooter range.

You basically can create a network around that manned aircraft to do the job at significantly lower cost and at no risk to human life.

And this is a concept that has been batted around the Air Force for a long time.

And we're really excited to be partnering with them on delivering that.

And that will be the first things that we build out of the Arsenal factory in Ohio as well as we'll start rolling the Fury aircraft off the line.

I mean, you could control a bunch of them.

You could control dozens if that was the con op that they wanted to choose.

I don't know if you've read the book or seen the movie Ender's Game, but it's basically a science fiction novel.

And the idea is that there's this guy, Ender Wiggins, who is effectively controlling an entire alien battle from a bunker where he's just there and he's giving commands and

The Starfighters and stuff like that are all operating autonomously in the battle space, and he's like a conductor of an orchestra.

You can kind of think about that as where we think that the next generation of autonomy is going, is that you're going to have orchestra conductors, and they'll be sending these things out on missions to go and do things rather than flying themselves directly into harm's way.

Man, that's interesting.