Aug 6, 2026 · 58 min · 15 segments
On today's episode of TFB's Behind the Gun Podcast, we welcome back Jonathan Wild, founder of Wild Arms Research and Development, to talk about his newest venture: Wild Arms Solutions. Johnny built…
Jonathan WildGuestLukeHost
I mean, um, you know, w- the, the book I think we last touched off is I was working on a book on hypervelocity rockets, and we're still working on that.
Okay.
And throughout the year, we've been looking at this, and, like, these weapons were designed for anti-aircraft use, anti-vehicles, anti-um, general purpose weapons.
How can we take these designs that we're already manufacturing and making for the book, how can we improve them, modernize them, and then make them a commercial product to take down drones? Um, that's the big commodity right now.
Okay, yeah.
Obviously a hot topic.
[laughs]
I mean, we've had drones, and I mean, like, even talking about, like, the Shahad drone, that was designed by West Germany in the 1980s.
Um, and it was kind of shelved until more recently, you know, like 30, 30, 40 years later.
Right.
Well, we kind of took it a different direction too with the MQ-9, where that's, like, a loitering plane with just munitions-
... on it.
[laughs]
A- a- and, and, and we're really good at doing that, and the US has been the most dominant in the, that class of, like, h- very high-end High altitude drones, and we've kind of dominated that, but-
I mean, um, you know, w- the, the book I think we last touched off is I was working on a book on hypervelocity rockets, and we're still working on that.
Okay.
And throughout the year, we've been looking at this, and, like, these weapons were designed for anti-aircraft use, anti-vehicles, anti-um, general purpose weapons.
How can we take these designs that we're already manufacturing and making for the book, how can we improve them, modernize them, and then make them a commercial product to take down drones? Um, that's the big commodity right now.
Okay, yeah.
Obviously a hot topic.
[laughs]
I mean, we've had drones, and I mean, like, even talking about, like, the Shahad drone, that was designed by West Germany in the 1980s.
Um, and it was kind of shelved until more recently, you know, like 30, 30, 40 years later.
Right.
Well, we kind of took it a different direction too with the MQ-9, where that's, like, a loitering plane with just munitions-
... on it.
[laughs]
A- a- and, and, and we're really good at doing that, and the US has been the most dominant in the, that class of, like, h- very high-end High altitude drones, and we've kind of dominated that, but-
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