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Mavrookas: Saronic will test a hypersonic missile before a manned Navy vessel
“We're actually going to be able to launch a hypersonic missile off of the back of Marauder, which is an autonomous ship, Before the Navy completes their first test of a hypersonic missile off of a manned vessel.”
Mavrookas: Saronic Corsairs rescued downed Apache pilots and attacked Iranian port
“Corsairs, which you just saw, were actively being used in the Straits of Hormuz. Two examples that were made public were one, the Apache pilot rescue of two down pilots, And then a offensive attack on an Iranian port, which actually took out an Iranian submari…”
Mavrookas: Saronic will save taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars
“What we're building at Cerronek will not only provide more capabilities faster, but it'll save the taxpayer hundreds of billions of dollars by driving down costs as well.”
Busch: Workers who can't change tires should be able to build ships
“There's no reason somebody who can't change a tire shouldn't be able to go and build a Corsair, or work on a Marauder, or work on a larger ship.”
Mavrookas: Five to ten new defense primes will scale within a decade
“I think over the next five to 10 years, I'll answer, I won't dodge the question completely. I think there will be somewhere, but around five to 10. I think you'll see five to 10 really, like, big impactful companies scale over the next five to 10 years, and ho…”
Mavrookas: Port Alpha will create 10,000 jobs and $160B economic impact
“So what we're going to do at Port Alpha, you mentioned 10 years, over the next 10 years, we're going to create 10,000 jobs. We're going to invest billions of dollars. I mean, we're going to have a hundred and sixty billion dollar economic impact in Brownsville…”
Mavrookas: Industrial volume, not exquisite design, determines naval power
“What has typically just determined naval power is who can build the
The most ships. It's not who can build the most exquisite, the most expensive, whose ships have the most on them in terms of payloads and weapons and all the other things. It's like, who can j…”
Mavrookas: Saronic achieved first ever autonomous combat search and rescue
“Take the Apache pilot rescue, for example, that was the first ever combat search and rescue done with an autonomous system.”
Little: Private Capital Will Flee Defense Tech if Anduril and Saronic Fail
“The part that worries me the most is, I want the Andrel, Ceronics, and Sail Drones, though, to do well. Because if they don't do well, private capital will recognize, like they did previously, that this isn't a good market to be in.”
Lehman: Defense contracting officers often lack awareness of permissible acquisition policies
“I think one thing that could help is using AI to augment the acquisition workforce because we've come across multiple times where there's a lack of awareness about a new regulation, a new policy that tells them they can do something that they're adamant that t…”
Ganesh: Saronic autonomous vessels have recorded accelerations north of 20 Gs
“So a good example of this is like, I think a lot of commercial boats, like you kind of target the human beings to like, take like .4 to .6 G's maybe you know, our boats like We've seen accelerations north of 20 G's before.”
Mavrookas: The US must fund legacy defense primes alongside new builders
“There certainly is a role for the traditional fleet, and there should be investment into the legacy industrial defense industrial base as it stands, because we need the primes that exist today. We just need other companies to be built alongside of them to supp…”
Mavrookas: Saronic's main line has capacity for 2,000 Corsairs per year
“So in just this line we're walking down right now, we can build, we have the capacity to build 2000 Corsairs per year.”
Mavrookas: Port Alpha will create over 10,000 jobs in 10 years
“And then Port Alpha, which I mentioned earlier, that's going to be based in Brownsville, Texas, so expanding within Texas, and that site's going to create over 10,000 jobs just in the next 10 years.”
Mavrookas: Port Alpha's 800-acre footprint makes it largest US shipyard
“Just that footprint alone will make it the largest shipyard in the country.”
Mavrookas: Saronic will bring online 150,000 gross tons of capacity within years
“We're going to bring online a 150,000 gross tons of capacity within a few years.”
Mavrookas: Saronic's Port Alpha will support ships up to 1,200 feet
“We will certainly, so Port Alpha will initially support 850 foot ships, and we'll expand up to be able to support 1200 foot ships.”
Ganesh: Fully unmanned fleets of Marauder-scale vessels have never been deployed
“Getting to the point where you have You know, a fleet of these that are completely unmanned just never been done before.”
Ganesh: Saronic bench-tested Marauder's propulsion stack months before ship construction
“And so for Marauder, for example, our 180 foot ship we built all of the internal kind of genset, propulsion stack, bow thruster, all of those components of the ship just in a room before, like probably eight months before the ship was built.”
Ganesh: Maritime autonomy lacks open data due to regulation and military classification
“Autonomous boats haven't been, you know, blessed with the legal approval from necessary from DHS and whatnot. You still have manning requirements on autonomous boats so that you haven't had the economic push. And then on the other side a lot of the things, as …”
Lehman: Saronic approached frontline operators directly rather than PEOs or Congress
“You know, we didn't approach our initial customers at the PEO or now PAE level. We didn't go from the hill. It was really finding operators and understanding what are the things you're being asked to do that you have to say, yes sir, yes ma'am.”
Ganesh: Designing boats without human accommodations reduces manufacturing complexity
“The nice and kind of magical part about building autonomous boats is that all boats historically have been built for humans. And so when you actually, you know, thoughtfully choose to design hardware and software together, you actually get to reduce a lot of t…”
Mavrookas: Saronic announced multi-hundred million dollar Navy contract in December 2025
“We talked about Corsair and the large contract that we announced in December of 25, multi-hundred million dollar contract with the Navy.”
Saronic plans to bring autonomy to commercial container ships and tankers
“And with Port Alpha, we're going to be looking at how do we bring autonomy into the commercial shipping industry at large for container ships and tankers and roll on roll off vessels.”
Mavrookas: Systems inevitably fail without hardware-software co-design
“If you're not co-designing with the hardware, software production in mind, then things aren't going to integrate, and they're not going to work. It's always going to fall down at that integration layer.”
Mavrookas: Saronic announced $392M Navy contract in December 2025
“We've announced the three hundred and ninety two million dollar contract with the Navy in December of 2025”
Mavrookas: Saronic's Mirage carries 3,500 pounds with a 2,500-nautical-mile range
“No, it's actually 15 times larger volumetrically. So what that opens up is more range, more payload capacity. So Corsair goes a thousand nautical miles with a thousand pound payload capacity. This will carry 3500 pounds with a 2500 nautical mile range.”
Oetting: Saronic employees work in person six days a week
“They also work six days a week in person, which is pretty cool.”
Busch: Saronic bought most available Louisiana aluminum for Marauder
“For example, we wound up buying out a vast majority of the aluminum in the Louisiana area where we've been built with Marauder.”
Ganesh: Saronic's open APIs allow operators to program custom comms-loss behaviors
“You can go and use our platform to with the open APIs that we have, like you can go and design a mission as per your specification. So you can go and say, if I do lose comms, like I want to keep going. Great. If I lose comms for X amount of time then I want to…”
Busch: Roughly 1,600 Saronic employees report through his operations organization
“Out of the working population here at Saronic, roughly 1600 folks roll up through my org.”
Ganesh: Mass vessel volume fundamentally changes operational behavior versus prototypes
“The volume actually changes the core fundamentals of how that system get used. If you only have one, you're like babying it the whole time, but when you have hundreds, there's all sorts of interesting things that you can do.”
Lehman: Saronic closed a government CRADA within 90 days of founding
“One, and it was a cooperative research and development agreement, CRADA, a government term of art. And it's essentially a no-cost contract that in exchange for codifying the relationship, you can get access to certain customer requirements or information that …”
Mavrookas: Saronic has grown to 1,800 people in four years
“And in four years, we've grown to 1800 people.”
Mavrookas: Saronic has logged over 25,000 test hours on Corsair
“We have over 25,000 hours tested with Corsair alone. That doesn't count government test ranges and combat operations.”
Mavrookas: Saronic built USVs before Ukraine's first drone boat strike
“The other thing I want to highlight there is we actually started working on this before the very, very first USV strike happened in Ukraine.”
Mavrookas: Saronic employs about 1,800 people across all locations
“We have about 1800 people total across all of our locations. We have three to 400 in our shipyard in Louisiana alone.”
Mavrookas: Saronic launched first Mirage autonomous vessel into sea trials
“This is our second one actually that we're building. We just launched the first one about a week and a half ago. That's already in sea trials, already going through the testing that we talked about.”
Oetting: 8VC companies Resilience and Saronic will manufacture exclusively in US
“We're not going to build our, you know, our fill finish facility in any other country at Resilience. We are 100%, we're more than 100% all in, in that facility, right? Cerronek's not going to go build ports in, you know, some random tax haven place just becaus…”