Why Is America Spending $50 Billion On Drones?
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The battle "is not really taking place at 30,000 feet anymore. It's really taking place at 300 feet."
At AUSA in Washington, D.C., the Army's biggest annual gathering, defense startups and primes showed how they plan to win it.
In this episode of the Business of Defense, we cover Sig Sauer's machine gun-armed Firestorm drone, Smart Shooter's AI targeting system, Aurelius Systems' compact lasers and CX2's drones that hunt the pilot, not the drone. It also looks at the batteries that keep it all running.
0:00 Intro
2:04 Drone classes, from Group 1 to Group 5
2:19 Sig Sauer's Firestorm machine-gun drone
4:26 Orchid's satellite-linked ISR drone
7:10 CX2: hunting the pilot, not the drone
9:10 Drone defense starts with the soldier: Smart Shooter
13:01 Sig's remote weapon station
13:50 Aurelius Systems' compact lasers
16:03 KBR's Firefly high-energy laser
18:15 The battery problem: Badland Batteries
21:17 Material's 3D-printed batteries
22:48 Can America keep pace?
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At AUSA in Washington, D.C., the Army's biggest annual gathering, defense startups and primes showed how they plan to win it.
In this episode of the Business of Defense, we cover Sig Sauer's machine gun-armed Firestorm drone, Smart Shooter's AI targeting system, Aurelius Systems' compact lasers and CX2's drones that hunt the pilot, not the drone. It also looks at the batteries that keep it all running.
0:00 Intro
2:04 Drone classes, from Group 1 to Group 5
2:19 Sig Sauer's Firestorm machine-gun drone
4:26 Orchid's satellite-linked ISR drone
7:10 CX2: hunting the pilot, not the drone
9:10 Drone defense starts with the soldier: Smart Shooter
13:01 Sig's remote weapon station
13:50 Aurelius Systems' compact lasers
16:03 KBR's Firefly high-energy laser
18:15 The battery problem: Badland Batteries
21:17 Material's 3D-printed batteries
22:48 Can America keep pace?
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