Neros Technologies

“We've tried to go quite far, and we think further than anyone else, where, like, you can look at our boards, you can look at all of the chips that go onto our boards, those will not Have ever touched China. Our motors are made outside of China. The material th…”

“Right now our factory benefits so much from the engineers sitting right next to the production line, and we have to essentially figure out how to productize the production line itself and have it run without just constant sustaining engineering.”

“We intend to be deploying Bandit in Ukraine before the end of the year.”

“Really we sized this facility to be able to do a million drones a year eventually.”

“We ended up getting selected. They selected two other companies as well but we were the only ones to really deliver in a meaningful way”

“We just announced our Series C fundraise two hundred fifty million at 2.5 billion post.”

“We're having a lot of conversations with allies and hearing that they want our products, but they want them produced domestically.”

“We're not trying to re-industrialize, we're trying to industrialize something that never existed in America, pretty much. Like, electronics and drones specifically just never existed in America”

“I say we want to be the Toyota of defense manufacturing where instead of being like a current prime where we're very exquisite and siloed, we're very you know, we're making these very accessible systems and we're ubiquitous across allies.”

“We were the first company to have an FPV drone on the blue UAS list, meaning the Department of War could actually just purchase and use it without having to go through a bunch of crazy approvals.”

“We're also announcing Archer AI, which does have autonomous capability. One of those things is terminal guidance, where basically jamming is usually the strongest on top of valuable targets, and so it just gets exponentially harder if you're an operator, if th…”

“I think this is an advantage we have compared to the situation that a lot of Ukrainian companies are in, where they're extremely good at the rapid iteration, but they don't have as much of an ability to pull back and do the long-term, like, really deep technic…”

“So this is what we're doing right now with The Archer AI product before it goes into, to main production later this year.”

“This one goes about 40 kilometers an hour faster, so we're doing about 300 kilometers an hour with this drone right here.”

“We sized this building to be big enough to do a million drones per year.”

“For the rate at which we are iterating, it actually makes a ton of sense to have manually operated stations.”

“So, 300 is actually a pretty good spot for taking out, like, typical Shawhead drones. To go after jet-powered Shawhead drones, we need to be closer to, like, 400 miles 400 kilometers an hour, So that would be kind of the ideal end state.”

“Generally factories are really efficient when they are large and centralized and three D printers can be very useful for adapting drones to Various mission sets, but you'd only be, like, the airframe or a payload adapter. What we're trying to solve for is the …”

“So right now we are Flight testing every single drone that we make.”

“And so that acts as a big heat sink, but we're still using, it's just a flat plate that's cut into a shape in two D versus having to be cast or CNC'd, which is just a lot cheaper for mass manufacturing.”

“It's not something that we are working on today, but it is an area where I think a lot of the same stuff that's been figured out in FPV, like, we can make lower cost systems that are really effective, like, that applies in fixed-wing too, and that is what Neur…”

“Maybe my hottest take is that a lot of the defense tech, maybe the majority of defense tech products that are being put out right now by startups are not very effective and maybe even like completely useless.”