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Virginia Heck: VT Drone Farm | Topical Punch
Virginia Tech is becoming a Pentagon counter-drone laboratory. Cor digs into Tech’s new military fellowship, AI and autonomous-systems research, the Kentland Farm counter-UAS center, America’s absurdly expensive drone-defense problem, and a proposal that could bring the Radford Arsenal into the regional testing ecosystem.
00:00 — Welcome to The Snide Show
01:55 — Virginia Tech’s New Pentagon Fellowship
06:36 — AI Testing and Defeating Autonomous Systems
09:10 — When Universities Become Defense Incubators
12:21 — Virginia Tech’s Counter-UAS Center at Kentland Farm
13:59 — America’s Drone “Cost-Exchange Problem”
15:47 — $2 Million Missiles vs. Cheap Iranian Drones
17:01 — Ukraine Offered America a Cheaper Answer
19:54 — Could the Radford Arsenal Join the Drone Lab?
22:31 — Cheap Drones Are Rewriting Modern Warfare
25:34 — The New River Valley as a Counter-Drone Laboratory
27:22 — Cost-Effective National Defense
28:04 — Stay Snide