Andruil's Drone Wingmen - Ep 637

Send us Fan Mail The F-22 is no longer just flying with other fighter jets. Aaron, Trent, and Peaches break down the emerging world of collaborative combat aircraft, autonomous drone wingmen, and Anduril’s YFQ-44A Fury concept — where a fighter pilot can act as the quarterback and assign high-level tasks to unmanned aircraft operating alongside the formation. The guys also talk about the possibility of ground forces eventually gaining access to those aircraft and what happens when the person on the ground effectively has their own airborne combat network overhead. The bigger conversation is about why companies like Anduril seem able to move so quickly. Instead of waiting years for the perfect government program, the model they describe is simple: find the warfighter’s problem, build a minimum viable product, let the military break it, fix what failed, and repeat until it works. Trent and Aaron compare that mentality to SpaceX and Tesla — organizations willing to crash prototypes, absorb failure, and keep iterating rather than treating every mistake like the end of a program. Naturally, the episode eventually gets completely off the rails. The guys talk about rocket-powered Teslas, autonomous Cybercabs, Knight Rider becoming real life, Aaron’s caffeine problem, Weapons School recovery data showing what Friday-night drinking does to performance, and the eternal military question of where high performance ends and team-room culture begins. Peaches also walks through the refreshed Ones Ready and Operator Training Summit sites before the crew tees up the MBRS-only follow-on discussion. LINKS onesready.com operatortrainingsummit.com CHAPTERS 00:00 - Ones Ready 01:10 - Aaron and Trent Start Without Peaches 02:20 - Aaron’s 91st Squadron Leadership Talk 04:36 - Peaches Finally Shows Up 05:08 - The Rise Against Ticket Disaster 07:19 - War Room Recall and the Election Episode 09:05 - Are Ones Ready Actually Vet Bros? 10:24 - Anduril, F-22s and Autonomous Combat Aircraft 12:20 - F-22 Controlled Robot Wingmen 13:08 - Ground Forces Controlling Combat Drones 13:51 - Why Anduril Moves Faster Than Traditional Defense 14:53 - Build It, Break It, Fix It 15:59 - New Ones Ready Website and OTS Updates 19:23 - Operator Training Summit Level 2 Is Coming 19:50 - Autonomous Aircraft That Take Off and Land Themselves 20:51 - Elon Musk and the Rocket-Powered Tesla 23:14 - Why Elon’s Failure Model Works 24:17 - Why Government Innovation Moves Differently 25:13 - The $500,000 Flying Tesla Problem 26:41 - Tesla Is Basically Knight Rider Now 27:59 - The Flying Tesla Needs Autonomous Wingmen 28:44 - Cybercabs and OTS Dallas 30:01 - Aaron’s 800mg Caffeine Habit 30:25 - Weapons School Recovery Data and Alcohol 33:51 - Military Culture vs Human Performance 34:47 - The MBRS Episode Gets Teased 35:33 - Ones Ready Wrap-Up Support the show Join this channel to get access to perks: HERE Buzzsprout Subscription page: HERE Register for our Operator Training Summit: OperatorTrainingSummit.com Find an Air Force Recruiter: AirForce.com Collabs: Ones Ready - OnesReady.com 18A Fitness - Promo Code: ONESREADY ATACLete - Follow the URL (no promo code): ATACLete Danger Close Apparel - Promo Code: ONESREADY DFND Apparel...