Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon

The Navy calls it conventional prompt strike.

The Army calls it Dark Eagle.

it's currently conventional only, we could consider making that dual capable, which brings you in, you know, the wrath of the arms controller, which is foolish, but we can talk about that if you want to.

So there are all these things that can be done, but they need to be done with hardware, not not software, because the basic policy is clear, and should should remain that way.

I mean, how long can you sustain that? Uh, but the Patriots cannot shoot down a hypersonic missile.

Uh, we just got our first hypersonic missile deployed, the, uh, uh, the Dark, uh, Dark Eagle about a month ago, but the Russians have had them for years.

We sent seven Patriot anti-missile batteries to Ukraine, and the Russians blew up all seven of them at a billion dollars a piece, by the way, using, um, using their, uh, um, uh, uh, the, using their, uh, hypersonic missiles.

So, um, so, so the point is we're, we're still in catch-up mode.

And that was as far, if the army wanted to hit a target, it better be within 300 kilometers range or they weren't gonna be able to get it.

Now they've got several options and more are coming that go way farther, right? They're in the process of the delayed fielding of the long-range hypersonic weapon by Lockheed, the Dark Eagle missile with that.

That's a rocket-boosted hypersonic glide vehicle.

Below that, they have the precision strike missile by Lockheed as well.

Lockheed Martin reached out.

They wanted to buy some of the computing and storage devices we use for LRHW.

I'm like, what the heck is LRHW? Oh, long range hypersonic weapon.

What's hypersonics? Probably fast.

So a little over a year before I'm sitting before the FTC and DOJ and had just done all these management presentations, like I knew what the heck I was talking about.