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Drone defense is 100x more valuable to the United States than drone production. Much has been made of the Army ordering the disbandment of a Ukrainian-focused, lessons-learned drone battalion. While people are right to question the cessation of learning from the modern battlefield and whether that is a wise calculation, it is undeniable that the political employability of the modern drone fight is very low for the United States. What do I mean by political employability? You can have all the right technical solutions in the world, but if they are not politically employable and you can never functionally use them, it’s a wasted investment on behalf of the American taxpayer and a waste of time for our troops. The likelihood of America choosing to engage in a fight like Ukraine’s is hard to imagine. Operating in an environment where we lose 200+ Americans a day to drones is not a reality the American people are ever going to accept or underwrite. We will nuke our adversary before that happens, which is itself almost impossible to imagine. That is precisely why it is even harder to imagine America engaging in a Ukrainian-style, backs-against-the-wall fight, because under those circumstances, the impossible outcome becomes increasingly probable. However, the Army’s “back-to-basics approach” seems equally questionable. I don’t believe there is a “back to basics” approach for our military, because five years from now, I genuinely question the political employability of all conventional forces, across all branches. It is a real question whether forward-deployed forces will be considered political assets rather than political liabilities. With our current capability sets of high-cost, exquisite, low-depth munitions, I increasingly see them only as liabilities. As the United States ostensibly works to rebuild credible deterrence, Iran is currently teaching us that under protracted circumstances, the United States is functionally and credibly deterred. That fact is yielding poor outcomes that are not acceptable to me or to the American people. In the world that is to come, we have to be able to play a near-flawless defense over years before we can even think about playing a productive offense for months. That goes for abroad as well as at home. That means the name of the game for the United States is developing a new “back to basics” approach. The critical building block is low-cost drone and ballistic missile defense. Layered on top of that are low-cost, fully autonomous offensive systems. Notice the themes: low-cost and autonomous. Protecting people from the battlefield by removing them from the battlefield. The military and homeland defense we need is not what we have now. We can do this, but it requires a rapid departure from what we’re doing and the way we are doing it. We just crossed $40 trillion in debt. It’s time for hard and necessary decisions to be made in the Pentagon and in Congress: get rid of the hardware and thought philosophy that have not helped us win the last 30 years of war, and start acquiring politically employable hardware and developing the thought philosophy that will help us actually deter war over the next 30 years.

Drone Hunting: If it flies, it dies! During Operation Skyfall, our AH-64E Apache crews demonstrated their drone hunting skills at Grafenwoehr Training Area in Germany 📽️ Cpl. Grant Hockley

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Drones vs interceptors is not an even matchup - it’s like guns vs armored vests. The attacker gets surprise, gravity, & force concentration. Jamming and EMPs can’t stop hardened autonomous bullets The logic of MAD brought to individuals. If you can see it, you can kill it.

Marines operate in the most demanding environments on the planet, and they deserve the most advanced capabilities -- as fast, reliable, and lethal as they are. Today we announced that the @USMC has selected our Bullfrog autonomous weapon station for its Ground Based Air Defense program. Bullfrog will be integrated into the service's Light Marine Air Defense Integrated System (L-MADIS) program of record, equipping Marines with a precise, scalable, and cost-effective kinetic defeat capability against the low-cost weaponized drones reshaping battlefields around the world. We're honored to support the Marines, and we'll continue delivering the technology they need to stay ahead of evolving threats.

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