My second interview with @OHichwa, Co-Founder & CTO of @neros_tech.
0:38 Redesigning a production line from scratch
1:15 Building 1,200 drones per week
1:43 Drones cause 70% of all casualties in Ukraine
3:10 China sells millions of drones to Russia
6:40 Focusing on operators
People look at the SR-71 and B-2 and assume the government must have technology today that would melt our brains.
I suspect the opposite.
Those aircraft came from an era willing to spend obscene money, accept failure and give small teams the authority to solve impossible
👀Scoring well in Drone Dominance is good, but @neros_tech has a pretty wild lead in the more important category (imo).
Neros: 2,400 units shipped (~half of which received and "quality checked" by DoD) and first to fulfill the order.
Everyone else: 560 shipped
Scale matters.
We've officially shipped all 2,400 drones ordered through the Drone Dominance Program's Gauntlet I, with 1,040 already verified by the Department of War.
While the gauntlets are a test of a single drone's capabilities, fulfilling the subsequent orders is where manufacturers