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“Why consumer tech now beats military gear in innovation speed”
...military has, like, special gear, and it's got its own kind of supply chain. And often, the military supply chain is often just a subset of the consumer supply chain because you sell a billion units o
...of military technology. And the Ukrainians and the Russians both have adapted technology enormously in the last few years to both attack and defend. Of course, there's just incredible use of drones and incredible innovation happening there. And so mi
...military planner a while ago, and he said in his view, the weaponized drone that fits in a backpack that you can fly over a hill and can basically destroy a tank, what they call suicide drone. He said in his view, it's the biggest innovation in defen
...military customers. Our most notable is the Pentagon. Headquarters Air Force is a is actually a paying customer, so very proud of that. But, yeah, I mean, if you picture this at scale, imagine your job being to look for light bulb types within refrig
...call to, the military. Where interesting technology could come from, it doesn't have to come through the traditional, primes, the traditional Lockheed Martin or Leidos or these other guys, that that are, so entrenched in in building weapon systems. T
...tech enablers, if you will, or the enablers that are useful in a broad way. If it's just useful for one service in one use case, that's probably something that service can handle on their own because they have their own labs and research and developm
...end, the technological capabilities of competing military forces and the idea that even though we can see, you know, the shell of a particular product, we can look at, like, whatever next generation fighter, China is producing. You can't see inside o
...the technology that goes into a drone that seeks things in a GPS denied environment. You know, it makes them more precise. For Golden Dome, which you've heard about, we're looking at how to take things out from space, which is a compelling, really co
...technology can really have an impact in a way that was unexpected. The drone behavior, using basically drones you could buy at Costco.
Whereas when you get to the fifth gen, this is when we see stealth. The aircraft that look much more futuristic, the weapon bays are internal to try to help with that stealth, and then we also see the start of really these turning into much more comp
...draft of their military service so that people can be properly trained, and that's actually very helpful. And in addition, they've passed a budget and they're actually spending against the key technology priorities that matter the most. And the same
new tools, new technology to bear, whether it's in c two, whether it's in autonomy, whether it's in AI use more broadly that will enhance an already pretty awesome fighting force. And the thing that I've seen change fundamentally is the world shifted
It's the same thing with strike drones and tanks and artillery. A tank costs several million pounds, euros. A strike drone is much, much, much cheaper. Depending on how things play out, you need one or maybe two or three strike drones, even with coun
...the technology and the visibility to have the best information at all times. It's sort of looking to the future of information based warfare more than pure air superiority and speed. It's not all the way to, like, a drone future or a cybersecurity fu
...technology and improvements in productivity. And the world order is peaceful but multipolar. Maybe that's the new era that we're entering. And in that context, you don't need as much of a defense. And separately, to Chamath's point, there's different
...tech venture capital than ever by, you know, three x more than last year. So, you know, the it it's growing. What I need to do and what the department needs to do is have some of these companies win big contracts quick, like, whether the you know, An
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