Epirus

“In 2018, when I helped my friends start EPRIS, that's what I was thinking, actually, is what could a crazy terrorist do to, like, attack something in a stadium? And you actually do need just to be able to turn these things off.”

“There's an element, one, of folks doing me too, like Andrew's very me too to China. They said, we're going to go toe to toe. We're going to manufacturing in volume. We're going to build computers. We're going to build drones. We're going to build everything th…”

“Until they overwhelm your defenses, overwhelm your ability to protect, and the traditional way of protecting, one effector, one threat, OODA loop, that isn't going to work. It does not scale with this sort of six-domain threat.”

“The microprocessors, the computers, you cannot buy an American made computer. You have to go overseas. You have to go to China and military doesn't want to buy A foreign made computer, but there isn't any option, so they have to do by exception”

“Maven came up and they gave it up. And then, you know, that was like the alarm bell that led to the founding of Andrel and Epros and Saronic and these big companies we were building now”

“Andrel has built their production infrastructure entirely on top, or manufacturing production infrastructure entirely on top of our offering here. Shield AI, Epirus, Sail Drone, Sironic,”

“When we went head to head with them, we didn't just like beat them by a little bit. We shot down the hardened drones nine and a half times farther away. Same size, same power, nine and a half times, completely wiped the floor.”

“And we have activity in a wide spectrum Of different sorts of applications that range from a very sort of close range self protect, like the Abrams tanks, for example, ranging all the way up into the protect a whole entire airfield.”

“What happens is, is a first person viewer drone with what they call a contact charge needs to drive that first person view drone all the way into impact. Cause how the contact charge works is it hits the armor And then a little spike shoots through the armor, …”

“The system now is in its infancy, but those hooks and those basically that fully automated mode is dialed into the way we architected it. So today, the military is not willing to go fully automatic”

“We had zero targets that we did not take down. In other words, we were 100% effective on Every single scenario and every single target that they threw at us, we had an effect on”

“We intend to be in deployment mode come this fall. So in this fall, we'll have a final sort of test out of all the different bugs that we learned in the first limitations test, and then we'll send these things overseas to really, really, really be in the war a…”

“So when the army gave us a contract, they said, see if we can deliver these in a couple years, two and a, it was a two and a half years actually. We delivered four systems in 15 months. I mean, just unheard of. 15 months, four full systems to the Army.”

“We're confident that we can build HPM that can have effects, very, very ubiquitous effects out at those ranges as well. Very, very confident.”

“We're going out with the Navy and participating in what's called Antex. And Antex is a program that we're going to take one of our systems and put a whole bunch of different outboard boat motors out in the water and see how far and how quickly and how effectiv…”

“We are deploying to CENTCOM. If those deployments are successful, we will be palmed into a program or record In 20, 25.”

“In the frequencies we work in, a lot of those frequencies are run by the FAA. And so the FAA has to give us permission to radiate big radiation at those frequencies, and we've run into problems Domestically, even on bases, even on military bases, being able to…”

“We ended up shooting down the hardened drones nine and a half times further away than the other guys.”

“The way I see it, directed energy weapons are a game changer on the battlefield. They don't have any of these magazine depth problems. The headlines right now are plagued with ammunition shortages and missile shortages and how are we going to replenish all thi…”

“We have created the world's first Software defined electromagnetic pulse capability.”

“One of our first field demos, we showed off our electromagnetic pulse weapon. We're putting out gigawatts of power”

“We're getting 90%, 95% power efficiency improvements.”

“We're actually going to, we're working on a project right now. We're actually going to speed up. The goal of the project is to speed up a ship because if all of its gas or energy is going towards the radar, it can't go towards the motor.”

“So what we've invented is a gallium nitride chips and a silicon carbide chips. These new chips That can handle 1200 volts, 2000 volts. So we've digitized.”

“We've published a peer reviewed journal article in, in December, 2020 on a lot. We've discovered, we believe we've discovered a lot that the power density of these transistors, it's doubling about every 18 months. We plotted all the data. Back to like the 19 n…”

“It's safe for people.”

“So we have demonstrated beyond a visible range. Like a good story I'll tell you is we, when we did our, one of our first field tests field demos, we had about a 70 customers come generals and so forth. It was a great event, and one of the biggest technical cha…”

“We're shooting a photons through the air and then once the photons hit the drone, it's creating such a strong electromagnetic field that it's creating a over voltage scenario on the electronics itself.”

“We, so we bought a boat motor running the boat motor in our chamber there. And so we've now got a videos of zapping our boat motors. We've got a bunch of data, how well it worked. It works great on vehicles as well. So it's really any electronics.”

“So Joe, we have not tried it against any electronics where it didn't work. So every piece of electronics we tried against, it has been successful. So we've taken out GPS, we've taken out guidance as systems.”

“So we can put an energy null. We call it a dynamic blue force zone where the user can kind of mark out where they don't want to fire and it can even be dynamic.”

“We're building this thing in a commercial business model. So we're investing our own money to get this thing built and sell it. We're going to sell it to you as a fixed price.”

“We're expanding into all areas of what's called the electromagnetic spectrum, because that is what is going to assert control in the future area of warfare.”

“We think about Leonidas as it really creates what's like a force field. You can create a force field around a base or defensive area. So I think it really does change the game.”