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[Ryan Robertson]
HELLO AND WELCOME TO ANOTHER EDITION OF WEAPONS AND WARFARE. FOR STRAIGHT ARROW NEWS, I’M YOUR HOST, RYAN ROBERTSON. JUST AHEAD ON THIS WEEK’S EPISODE, WE’RE GETTING NAUTICAL.
MEET, MINERVA. THE LATEST CREATION FROM THE FOLKS AT GHOSTWORKS MARINE. BUILT WITH CUTTING-EDGE CARBON FIBER COMPOSITE TECHNOLOGY, SEE WHY THIS COULD BE THE NEXT GO-TO CRAFT FOR AMPHIBIOUS ASSAULTS AND SPECIAL OPERATIONS.
AND WE GO ONE-ON-ONE WITH THE FOLKS FROM Q INTELL. SEE WHY THIS CIVILIAN-RUN INTEL AGENCY COULD BE JUST WHAT DOD LEADERSHIP IS LOOKING FOR IN OUR WEAPON OF THE WEEK.
BUT FIRST, SOME HEADLINES YOU MAY HAVE MISSED.
CONCERNS ARE GROWING AMONG SOME NATO MEMBERS ABOUT THE POTENTIAL PULLBACK OF U.S. SECURITY SUPPORT ON NATO’S EASTERN FRONT UNDER THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION. IN POLAND, WHICH SITS NEAR NATO’S BORDER WITH RUSSIA, THERE’S FOOTAGE FROM U.K. BROADCASTER SKY SHOWING A NEARLY EMPTY BEACH WITH LITTLE TO OFFER OFFER IN TERMS OF PROTECTION.
BUT JUST A FEW HOURS AWAY IS THE U.S. NAVY’S BASE AT REDZIKOWO (Red-zik-oh-woah), A KEY PART OF THE COLLABORATION BETWEEN NATO AND THE U.S..
CAPTAIN MICHAEL DWAN, WHO COMMANDS A TASK FORCE THERE, SAYS THE BASE IS READY TO RESPOND TO ANY THREATS FROM RUSSIA.
[CPT Michael Dwan, Commander, Task Force 64]
“You tin spot that these missiles are moved to enable, okay? We are connected mission, right? These missiles are fresh to go, okay.”
[Ryan Robertson]
DWAN ADDED THERE HAVEN’T BEEN ANY RECENT CHANGES TO THE TASK FORCE’S RESPONSIBILITIES WITH THE NEW ADMINISTRATION.
FROM ONE BORDER TO ANOTHER, PRESIDENT TRUMP AUTHORIZED THE U.S. MILITARY TO TAKE CONTROL OF FEDERAL LANDS ALONG THE SOUTHERN BORDER TO SUPPORT HIS IMMIGRATION AGENDA. POTUS ISSUED A MEMO DIRECTING KEY CABINET SECRETARIES TO FACILITATE THIS TRANSFER SO MILITARY ACTIVITIES CAN OCCUR ON DESIGNATED “NATIONAL DEFENSE AREAS.”
ONE AREA MENTIONED IS THE ROOSEVELT RESERVATION, A NARROW STRIP OF LAND ALONG THE U.S.-MEXICO BORDER IN CALIFORNIA, ARIZONA, AND NEW MEXICO.
IN THE MEMO, TRUMP SAID THERE IS STILL AN “INVASION” AT THE BORDER. U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION REPORTS ONLY 7,200 MIGRANT ENCOUNTERS IN MARCH, DOWN FROM MORE THAN 189,000 LAST YEAR. C-B-P ALSO SAYS DAILY SOUTHWEST BORDER APPREHENSIONS FELL TO AROUND 230 PER DAY—A 95% DROP FROM THE PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATION’S AVERAGE DAILY ENCOUNTERS OF 5,100 PER DAY.
GENERAL ATOMICS ELECTROMAGNETIC SYSTEMS IS ANNOUNCING A PARTNERSHIP WITH ISRAEL’S RAFAEL ADVANCED DEFENSE SYSTEMS TO PRODUCE A LONG-RANGE, PRECISION-GUIDED STRIKE MISSILE CALLED BULLSEYE. GENERAL ATOMICS WILL SERVE AS THE PRIME CONTRACTOR IN THE U.S TO BUILD THE BULLSEYE, ENSURING THE MISSILE MEETS U.S. MILITARY SPECS FOR LAUNCH FROM AIR, GROUND, AND SEA AT AN AFFORDABLE PRICE.
SCOTT FORNEY, PRESIDENT OF G-A-E-M-S, EXPRESSED HIS EXCITEMENT ABOUT THE COLLABORATION, SAYING.
“We’re thrilled to activity pinch Rafael to bring Bullseye to life. This rocket will beryllium made successful nan U.S. for our subject customers, supporting a assortment of important precision-fire missions for nan Department of Defense and our conjugation partners.”
FORNEY ADDED BY LEVERAGING RAFAEL’S EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE IN MISSILE DESIGN AND TESTING, THEY CAN LOWER RISKS AND DEVELOPMENT COSTS WHILE STILL DELIVERING A HIGHLY CAPABLE MISSILE AT A REDUCED PRICE POINT.
IN A PRESS RELEASE, GENERAL ATOMICS SAYS THE BULLSEYE WILL COMPLY WITH U.S. MILITARY STANDARDS AND BE MANUFACTURED AT THEIR FACILITY IN TUPELO, MISSISSIPPI.
[Ryan Robertson]
THERE’S A HISTORY OF MILITARY INNOVATION MAKING ITS WAY TO CIVILIAN LIFE. THINK G-P-S, EPI-PENS, AND NIGHT VISION TECHNOLOGY.
[Sony Pictures]
“Do you want to spot thing really cool?”
“Of course.”
“Turn disconnected nan lights. Industrial spot nighttime imagination goggles.”
“”Holy point from nan Fantastic Four!”
[Ryan Robertson]
ALRIGHT, SETTLE DOWN BOYS.
WHAT’S NOT TALKED ABOUT AS OFTEN IS CIVILIAN TECH BEING ADAPTED BY THE MILITARY.
BUT FOR A FEW YEARS NOW A MICHIGAN-BASED COMPANY, WITH A PROVEN TRACK RECORD IN ELITE BOAT RACING, HAS BEEN WORKING TO BRING THEIR INNOVATIONS, TO AMERICAN WARFIGHTERS. AND THAT’S THE SUBJECT OF THIS WEEK’S DEBRIEF.
IT WAS A PICTURE-PERFECT DAY ON THE POTOMAC WHEN WE SET WITH THE CREW FROM GHOSTWORKS MARINE.
“So we’re driving astir correct now connected nan Minerva, maneuvering connected nan Minerva arsenic it were, pulling a difficult correct move correct now, going astir 3730 knots connected that move correct there. Very tight, very maneuverable. The velocity that this trade is capable to support done those different maneuvers without putting a batch of strain connected nan operator’s body, aliases whoever’s successful nan cab aliases body, intends that you tin tally this vessel for hours connected end. ”
AT A LITTLE MORE THAN 46 FEET LONG, THE NEWEST M-HULL VESSEL FROM THE HOLLAND, MICHIGAN FIRM CUTS AN IMPRESSIVE FIGURE ON THE WATER. BUT IT’S WHAT THE M40 CAN DO ON THE JOB THAT REALLY GETS YOUR ATTENTION.
[Todd Meyer, Demo Pilot]
“So this vessel carries 750 gallons of fuel, astir a 700 mile range, astatine a beautiful patient cruising velocity and afloat customizable. She’s sewage a 15 ft beam, truthful for nan length, she carries substantially much than immoderate different coach. She’s astir 16,000 pounds pinch fuel, and she, you know, afloat displacement pinch gear. She’s almost 30,000 pounds. So you’ve sewage 13,000 pounds of payload capacity pinch range, which is beautiful remarkable.”
[Ryan Robertson]
ALSO REMARKABLE, ITS CARBON FIBER CONSTRUCTION. SOMETHING GHOSTWORKS CEO BROOKE KERSCHBAUMER SAYS SPARKS PLENTY OF CONVERSATIONS ABOUT COST AND EASE OF MAINTENANCE.
[Brooke Kerschbaumer, CEO, Ghostworks Marine]
“The elemental reply to that is, well, it is easy to maintain. It’s really really easy to repair, and it’s moreover much sustainable than each different point that we’re utilizing correct now successful nan maritime space. So c has a really agelong support life. It’s thermal resistant, truthful it doesn’t grow and statement nan aforesaid measurement that metallic does. So that makes it a small spot easier erstwhile you’re putting it done its paces and it’s experiencing swift somesthesia changes.”
[Ryan Robertson]
GHOSTWORKS SAYS THE MINERVA WAS MANUFACTURED AT UNPRECEDENTED SPEED. GOING FROM DESIGN TO COMPLETED SEA TRIALS IN SIX MONTHS.
[Brooke Kerschbaumer, CEO, Ghostworks Marine]
“So we travel from nan precocious capacity racing space. You know, we’re, arsenic you’ve already asked me, we’re misfits and Mavericks. So we travel from that world that’s been utilizing Carbon successful maritime for complete 40 years, and what that’s allowed america to do is really push nan envelope.”
[Ryan Robertson]
YOU MIGHT THINK A BUNCH OF ENGINEERS PUSHING THE ENVELOPE WOULD BE SOMETHING MILITARY TYPES ARE COMFORABLE WITH. IT TURNS OUT THEY NEED SOME CONVINCING.
[Brooke Kerschbaumer, CEO, Ghostworks Marine]“We get asked each nan time, what happens if nan vessel cracks? What happens if you get a hole? We nonstop each trade retired pinch a vacuum sealed battalion that really you tin conscionable put connected nan boat, bedewed aliases dry. It’ll make it safe, truthful that you tin bring it backmost in, and past we conscionable carve out, put a caller portion in, reinstate it conscionable nan aforesaid measurement that we would do pinch metal. It’s conscionable a different process.
[Ryan Robertson]
A PROCESS WE GOT TO SEE FIRSTHAND THANKS TO A QUICK DEMONSTRATION WITH IAN FABER
[Ian Faber, Quality Assurance Engineer, Ghostworks Marine]
“You tin tune resins into different speeds. You tin get them down to 20 minutes where, and that’s much of a polyester vinyl ester product. What we usage is epoxy, truthful you person a mates hours earlier it’s set. And again, there’s location are different formulas to execute different different manufacturing.”
[Ryan Robertson]
SO WE KNOW THE BOAT HAS GOOD BONES, BUT ITS REALLY OUT ON THE WATER WHERE THE MINERVA MAKES ITS BEST CASE AS A POTENTIAL OPTION FOR SAILORS, MARINES, SPECIAL OPERATORS—BASICALLY ANY SQUAD THAT NEEDS TO GET IN AND OUT QUICKLY…WHILE ALSO DISTRIBUTING FREEDOM TO ADVERSARIES.
[David Wright, Tactical Consultant, Ret. USN]
“Well, conscionable nan truth that you tin support your statement of sight, your parallel to nan sky nan full clip passim nan turn. Means that erstwhile you travel disconnected and you database and determine it doesn’t return your weapon statement up and into nan air, it allows you to support if you were engaging a threat, it allows you to support eyes connected that threat truthful that you tin responsibly and actively and efficaciously prosecute that threat, protect nan unit ”
[Ryan Robertson]
AND THE MINERVA HELPS PROTECT ITS OCCUPANTS KNEES, BACK AND JOINTS. WHEN YOU’RE ON THE WATER IN THE CRAFT, YOU CAN’T HELP BUT NOTICE JUST HOW SMOOTH THE RIDE IS. THE PILOT AND CREW AREN’T SUBJECT TO MANY OF THE FORCES ENDURED BY OPERATORS OF MONOHULL CRAFT. IT’S SOMETHING KERSCHBAUMER SEES AS A MAJOR SELLING POINT.
[Brooke Kerschbaumer, CEO, Ghostworks Marine]
“The point that is nan astir absorbing that we perceive from everybody, erstwhile they get off, you don’t consciousness for illustration you’re going fast. When you’re connected her, you consciousness incredibly safe. And erstwhile she turns, she’ll move connected a dime, she will hug. You know, there’s nan aged statement from beautiful female that’s corners for illustration it’s connected rails. That’s precisely what she does. So she makes you consciousness truthful beardown successful everything that you’re doing, you ne'er suffer statement of sight. So you tin spot 360 degrees astir you, sloppy of what type of maneuvers you’re making.”
[Ryan Robertson]
AS FOR WHAT’S NEXT FOR THE M40, A GHOSTWORKS EXECUTIVE TELLS WEAPONS AND WARFARE THEY RECEIVED LOTS OF POSITIVE FEEDBACK ABOUT THE RIDE QUALITY, LOW SLAMMING, FLAT TURNS, AND THE VERSATILITY OF THE MODULAR PLATFORM.
ADDING THEY HAVE INTEREST FROM SEVERAL NAVAL FORCES, THE COAST GUARD, SOME BORDER PATROL UNITS, AS WELL AS SOME COMMERCIAL APPLICATIONS THAT SAY THEY ARE VERY EXCITED ABOUT HOW EASILY GHOSTWORKS CAN TAILOR THE VESSELS TO THEIR NEEDS.
[Ryan Robertson]
TO ATTEND A DEFENSE EXHIBITION IS TO BE SUBJECTED TO A LOT OF COMPANY’S LOOKING TO LAND SOME D-O-D BUSINESS. IT IS, FOR LACK OF A BETTER TERM, A BATTLE OF EYE CANDY.
AND AT THE RECENTLY WRAPPED NAVY LEAGUE SEA, AIR, SPACE 2025, ONE COMPANY’S DISPLAY DEFINITELY CAUGHT OUR ATTENTION–BECAUSE WELL, IT WAS AWESOME. MEET Q INTEL– OUR WEAPON OF THE WEEK.
AS FAR AS CONVERSATION STARTERS GO, BOOTH 17-47, HOME TO THE TEAM FROM Q INTEL, WAS A PRETTY GOOD ONE. WITH BRIGHT, BOLD COLORS, AND CHARACTERS SEEMINGLY CUT STRAIGHT FROM A FRANK MILLER GRAPHIC NOVEL, WE HAD TO STOP AND FIND OUT WHAT THEIR STORY IS. THAT’S HOW WE MET KEITH MULARSKI, A FORMER FBI AGENT AND NOW Q INTEL’S GLOBAL AMBASSADOR.
[Keith Mularski, Chief Global Ambassador, Qintel]
“So our extremity is really to way adversaries, and we do that done collections successful cyberspace. We collect, you know, communications, IP addresses, things for illustration that. But really, our extremity is to way adversaries truthful apt aliases federation authorities actors, criminal hackers, terrorists, that is our breadstuff and butter.”
[Ryan Robertson]
“And erstwhile you talk about, you know, gathering nan intel on, past nan IP addresses, are you, like, searching your Facebook pages? You cognize what I mean, like, what tin you benignant of talk astir nan process of what accusation you’re looking to gather?”
[Keith Mularski, Chief Global Ambassador, Qintel]
“Yeah, so, truthful we do is, it’s each Osint that we collect. So it could beryllium breach information that that is being sold connected nan cyber underground, it could beryllium scraping a cyber underground forum, aliases getting these communications from nan bad guys, aliases looking astatine forensic copies of servers and seeing what nan adversaries are doing truthful those type of collections.”
[Ryan Robertson]
A QUICK LOOK AT Q INTEL’S EQUALLY EYE-CATCHING WEBSITE REVEALS A GLIMPSE INTO THEIR ETHOS; TO “DELIVER GOVERNMENT-GRADE CYBER INTELLIGENCE ON THE MOST CRITICAL THREATS TO OUR FUTURE.”
TO THIS POINT, MULARSKI SAYS MOST OF THEIR WORK IS WITH ELITE LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES ALL OVER THE WORLD, BUT THEY ARE WORKING TOWARDS BUILDING BRIDGES WITH U.S. GOVERNMENT INTEL GATHERERS AS WELL.
[Keith Mularski, Chief Global Ambassador, Qintel]
“We want to alteration them. We want to supply them pinch arsenic overmuch intelligence that’s retired location that tin beryllium collected into unfastened root and past let them to usage their different delicate techniques to really return it to that adjacent level. So, you know, for, from for illustration a DOD standpoint, being capable to get you up to a trigger point, then, for, past you to usage your techniques to past return it crossed to that next.”
[Ryan Robertson]
ONE THING Q INTEL MIGHT HAVE GOING FOR IT, IS NOT ONLY THEIR TRACK RECORD, BUT THE RECENT CHANGE IN AMERICAN LEADERSHIP.
[Keith Mularski, Chief Global Ambassador, Qintel]
“You know, nan Secretary of Defense conscionable said, you know, that they want to usage immoderate alternatively of processing platforms, usage disconnected nan support things. And we deliberation that we’re really uniquely positioned to do that, because we person that level already built, and besides really expanding to nan commercialized assemblage too, for web defense, for Fortune 500 companies that are retired location arsenic well.”
[Ryan Robertson]
WHILE Q INTEL DIDN’T HAVE ANY MAJOR NEWS TO SHARE IN THE WAKE OF SEA, AIR, SPACE, THE PITTSBURGH-BASED START-UP DID SAY THEIR PRESENCE THERE SPARKED A LOT OF POSITIVE CONVERSATIONS AS THEY LOOK TO BUILD THOSE IN-ROADS WITH GOVERNMENT AGENCIES.
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