Draganfly CEO Live on NTD News | The Future of AI-Powered Drones

There is likely nothing that's more impactful now in terms of the asymmetric ability for one side of a conflict to deal with the other side of a conflict. If we look closely at what's happened in Ukraine, the drones and AI have been the determining factor for those Ukrainian fighters to be able to defend themselves and actually even make gains against the oppressor. So the US has obviously taken note of this and is now very aggressively moving towards that capability. Previously, you know, typically in an area of active conflict the most important aspect is owning the airspace and that's generally done by organizations or countries that have billion-dollar platforms, manned aircraft, integrated systems with satellites, etc. Now quite simply you can put up a number of drones and from 5,000 ft down you can own that airspace. So this ability and this requirement to own the airspace is what's driving this low-cost alternative and fastly changing capability into the US forces now.

Yeah. Well, thank you for that question. And Dragonfly is the oldest drone manufacturer in the world. We've been doing this since in category one drones and we've been doing this for the last 27 years. So recently we just received an order and were selected by the US Army to provide FPV, so first-person viewer drones, to the US Army in overseas locations. Not only that but we were also selected to help the army build manufacturing plants themselves for these drones, utilizing Dragonfly drone technology and expertise to train those personnel to be able to manufacture, maintenance and modify drones on the fly. Previously, you know, procurement cycles within the US army took years and years and in fact even getting to this point has taken us a couple of years. However, what the data shows is that drone technology evolves every 10 days in the Ukraine conflict for example. So the US Army needs to be and is positioned itself to be in a situation working with Dragonfly where every 10 days that technology is being iterated, upgraded, concepts of operation, mission profiles are being changed.