Q Okay. That's a lot. That's big. So how does this enable the warfighter? Like, can you give a more tangible like use case or like day operation?
A For sure. So, you know, high level, we can sort of boil it down to just the performance. So a surface vessel today is going to go 20 knots, you know, mid twenties miles an hour. That's when you start skipping off the waves and stuff like that. So a sea glider can fly at a 160 knots or a 180 miles an hour. So we're eight times faster. So if you translate that into Moving around island chains in the Pacific, you know, Guam is about as close as the U S gets to China. And then the first island chain is, you know, Taiwan and, uh, Japan and sort of those islands there. Um, so that's like a four or five day sale. If you're a surface vessel today and a sea glider could fly there in 10 hours. So it just gives you a sense of how quickly we can reposition things around island chains in the Pacific, which is the critical theater. Um, but then also you have the, the capabilities of the vehicle compared to aircraft. Cause you could say like, oh, well I could fly a plane there, but planes need fixed land infrastructure and sea gliders can take off and land in five foot seas. Uh, that's like the key differentiation of a sea glider verse sea planes or, or flying boats of the past. So we're basically, we're a surface vessel and that we can, you know, do open water operations, but rate times faster, or we're an airplane, but we can land and take off in these, in these high sea states.
AI assessment note: “gives you a sense of how quickly we can reposition things around island chains”