Steve Simoni, President of Allen Control Systems, discusses the global market scale and deployment potential for ACS's Bullfrog autonomous counter-drone turret.
“I think that like bullfrog is going to be everywhere. Like every vehicle in every military that has a gun on it needs to be replaced with a gun that can hit drones. So, I mean, we're going to be in like every country. This is one of the biggest products of all time.”
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Simoni: Allen Control Systems builds AI machine guns for counter-drone warfare
“We make AI machine guns that are really purposely built to neutralize drone threats. Also they can take out other targets as well, but it's primarily meant for the drone warfare future.”
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Simoni: Allen Control vertically integrates Bullfrog's electronics, PCBs, and steel
“We do everything pretty much on this turret, because it's like all the power electronics, all the PCBs, we cut all the steel, like it's our, it's like an art project of sorts, because there's so many things you have to do right to hit a drone that fast, that f…”
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“So yeah, we raised like forty three million dollars so far.”
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