miles per hour tops at one hundred sixty knots. Most basic just three percent of these are commercially made, and that, whenever feasible, will be the key.
Claire McCarthy: What does it do?
Andrew Marsh: That’s a good question. I’ll let somebody else answer that. I can tell you this, however, that there’s probably a modest list of organizations that would love to have this.
Claire McCarthy: Okay, and you want to tell us just a little bit about this organization and who it is.
Andrew Marsh: I’m the CEO of a company that specializes in commercializing technology, and we’re turning it into a commercial enterprise for now. We are intending to develop it and start sales after we have proven it. There’s probably a better way of putting it, but basically, we’re building what will be the first hypersonic cruise missile. We’ve got that at the prototype level, and we’re going to accelerate it. If we have that in the air and ready to go, then we’re going to be able to sell it to other governments, and we’re going to be able to sell it to other organizations as well.
Claire McCarthy: Mm-hmm. So, what’s the difference between this and something like, let’s say, a small drone, or that’s not a drone.
Andrew Marsh: Well, you know, the primary problem for a drone is that you can’t take it on a ship, so if you want to go from the United States into a ship, the drone has to go from ship to ship. It will also need an aircraft to take off. For a drone to get to the ship, it will have to fly off of the aircraft carrier, and then what it will have to do is fly the distance, which is the problem.
With hypersonics, the differentiator is that it’s maneuverable. It can go on a direct line to your target, and it can go directly towards a moving target, which is different. And, obviously, you can’t have a drone that is as maneuverable, but one of the benefits of hypersonics is that they can get to moving targets, whereas drones, obviously, only get to standing targets.
Claire McCarthy: And a missile
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