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Schimpf: China possesses 250 times the shipbuilding capacity of the US
“Where there's something like 250 times the shipbuilding capacity you know, massively, massively, probably thousands of times on the weapon side. You know, it is just on drones. It's massive. Like, you just, kind of look category by category, massively outpacin…”
Schimpf: Wargames show key U.S. munition stockpiles run out in eight days
“You know, one of the areas where we see it is showing up with weapons, so when you look at these wargaming sort of scenarios, and you know, all these wargames are sort of questionable in their own ways but pretty consistently the stockpile of key U.S. Munition…”
Schimpf: Russia outproduces NATO in 155mm artillery munitions after two-year ramp
“Russia today is outproducing NATO on one five five munitions and took about two years.”
Schimpf: China has legally banned the export of magnet-making technology
“China has strategically kind of strangleholded that, you know, not only did they have the processing of those rare earths, but now they've exported, controlled, so they don't allow the export of magnet-making technology. That is now a restricted national techn…”
Schimpf: Sam Altman publicly committed OpenAI to supporting US national defense
“Sam especially has been very clear that he supports our war fighters and he cares about having the best minds in AI working on national security and like who better exists to work through these hard problems.”
Schimpf: SpaceX received one-third of Boeing's Starliner funding
“I think SpaceX had a third the amount of money that Boeing was given to make Starliner work.”
Schimpf: China conducts hundreds of hypersonic weapon tests annually versus US's four
“The single best stat for this is they are running hundreds of tests a year of hypersonic weapons. The US is running, like, four.”
Schimpf: Russia retooled defense production and outproduces all of NATO on munitions
“Empirically, Russia, You know, about same duration, about two years to retool their industry against defense production. They are now out producing all of NATO on munitions.”
China is actively investing in and will deploy autonomous weapons
“We know that China is, you know, investing in similar technologies. We know they're going to move out on it,”
Nearly every country now possesses cruise missile-equivalent drone technology
“Nearly every country has what is the equivalent of cruise missiles.”
The U.S. military fires $2 million missiles at $100,000 aerial threats
“As a result, we're shooting Patriot missiles and, you know, advanced air-to-air missiles at these 100,000 dollars threats, shooting two million dollar missiles at them.”
Schimpf: US government guaranteed price floor for MP Materials
“I think the way they're structuring some of these is actually really clever, right? Like they basically, with one of these, this empty materials company, they basically guaranteed a minimum offtake and a price floor.”
Palantir streamlined Ukraine military targeting workflows from satellite imagery to approval
“You know, I think a lot of the things that were starting to happen in Ukraine, a lot of the great work Palantir did was on things like this, where it was like the targeting process of going from satellite imagery through to, hey, this looks like a tank, throug…”
Anduril fielded its first weapon system in under two years
“It was just like under two years from when we started from Never having done a weapons program to having a fielded weapon capability”
Schimpf: US defense posture requires human accountability in warfare
“And so the US posture on this is very much, we want to have humans accountable for what happens in war.”
Schimpf: Commercial vehicle development takes 2-3 years while military timelines skyrocket
“There's this awesome chart, which shows how long it takes to get commercial aircraft or autos from kickoff to fielding. And it's been flat to slightly better for all of those things, on the order of two to three years. The military aircraft side just went lite…”