Unmanned aerial vehicle

Um, uh, and there's also, uh, uh, inconsistent approach to how to sort of harden targets, whether they're physical facilities like, like, uh, like, um, like part of the electrical grid or staff and personnel there, there's plenty of traditional stuff that you do for that kind of stuff.

But are you looking at cyber threats? Are you looking at, um, Drone incursions.

How do you prioritize these threats? And then how do you cost that out? So industry definitely is interested in doing something, but that doesn't necessarily mean a standardized and steady state response.

Your previous point on government.

Yeah, there is.

And talking of UAVs, there is an entire world of geophysics that is driven by drones and unmanned aerial vehicle or submarine ones and so forth.

There is a huge combination of elements that can participate to the lowering of the cost of monitoring.

Well, this will be coming out after Image, so people are going to be exposed to a lot of different areas of geophysics.

What are the assertions or attributes of that math? What are the things that we have to look at? So I'll give you a key thing, and this riffs off of Alan's talking about edge devices and OT devices.

One set of OT devices is unmanned autonomous vehicles, UAVs.

And we, especially in the military, have been using, making increasing use of UAVs.

UAVs have to get their commands from something that they trust.

And they enforce that trust by evaluating a digital signature against a certificate that was embedded in the ROM, in the UAV's system itself.

Every single edge device needs a cryptographic bill of materials so you know what things the UAV trusts.

Um, who's the one

really great, um, Drone guy.

He's out at Cloudbreak.

It's like wood...

Recent reports suggest, however, that the TPLF, now aligned with Eritrea, will not repeat such a vulnerability and is sourcing its own drone and anti-drone technology.

Sudan has since become the fuller demonstration of the drone model, with both sides wielding UAVs and unmanned aerial vehicles, to immense devastation.

At least 1,000 civilians were killed in the first months of 2026 alone.

The Sudanese army was able to retake Khartoum in 2025, aided by the widely favoured Turkish Bayraktar drones, as well as Iranian Qods Muhajir 6, and now controversially deployed them in cross-border attacks targeting RASF.

supply lines in Chad.

UAE, on the other hand, has fashioned the paramilitaries with considerable UAVs as well, who have relentlessly tyranized tyranized tyranized tyranized tyranized towns, I guess that's how you say it, and cities across Sudan with incessant indiscriminate drone strikes, not least during their siege of El Fasher, pummeling the city before overrunning it in October 25, which does uh remind me of a piece that I covered around that time actually um because I remember just I remember there being overhead over over um overhead pictures of just like entire just red just entire villages just red um with indiscriminate uh just murder um so too our drones are feeding into the quote-unquote gray conflicts of the horn with deniable unattributed strikes increasing including turkish operations of punt lands coast and ethiopian strikes near merkel in the past fortnight alone becoming a favorite weapon for those seeking plausible deniability in somalia concerns are particularly growing around the purported strike from turkish air assets on a former opposition allied military commander not the jihadist targets as promised The technology further upends the directional logic governing relations between armed actors and the state.

The great armed movements of the late 20th century in the Horn, including the TPLF and the Sudan's People Liberation Movement slash Army, regarded the state as the framework, though, which sovereignty could... as a framework through which sovereignty could be exercised with violence oriented toward capturing it.

Even in 2021, the TPLF sought to bring low the B government.

And so it's a little more confusing on the ground than you think it's going to be.

And they've got the UAV overhead.

And we're moving and we're kind of doing our best.

And the guy back at the talk, at sort of the company, the troop level, says over the net, be advised, Bulldog 6 is viewing the overhead feed, which was the brigade commander, the big boss.

Like, we're on an operation.

We're on a target.

You know, if people are watching using the UAV feed, either shut up or say something valuable.

We have other things to worry about right now.

It's kind of a mashup of features from past programs and some things we're interested in the future.

It's a class three UAV.

It's meant to be air launched.

There's no landing gear.

The future of warfare.

Drones.

All that kind of stuff.

Could go horribly wrong.