In 2022 I coaxed the CEO of my company to start making FPVs.
I convinced him that this is the future of drone warfare.
Cautiously,we made a start, trying to give demonstrations, presentations, even training a few FPV pilots, which requires very high skill & a different temperament.
We failed to elicit response. Most living in the past dismissed the idea, some even mocked & commented that these peashooters ( FPVs) would just bounch off their armour.
Some innovative geniuses decided to manufacture them revelling in the glory of "assembling" 1-2 prototypes.
But then, Ukr & Russia were consuming FPVs at 10,000 a month!!
What about the supply chains & the indigenous content?? Who would give you 10,000 components on a phone call ???
Today, I am swamped by calls for FPVs. Unfortunately, we never got our manufacturing going in earnest because the users never understood the asymmetric capability of the FPV & FPV swarms.
We only learn in a crisis or when pushed to a corner.
There is a technology adoption cycle. We have to be in the innovators or early adapters in this cycle. Unfortunately, we land up in the late majority.
FPV 2.0 have already come with spools to defeat EW interference.
FPV 3.0 are already in...heterogenous AI based FPV drone swarms.
Never too late to learn & adapt.
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