Hangar X Studios

06/10/2026

Autonomy is not replacing the pilot. It is changing what the pilot does.

Pramod Raheja is CEO of Airgility, a company building drones that fly autonomously through complex environments. He says the drone operator of the future does not need to be a pilot. They need to be an operator.

Bas Gouverneur is CEO of Daedalean, the company building the world's first AI-enabled avionics. His system gives pilots 240 degree optical awareness they have never had before. Not to replace the pilot. To reduce the workload so the pilot can focus on the mission.

Two people. Two different angles. The same conclusion, humans are not going away. Only their role is just changing.

Full episodes on YouTube. Link in comments.

06/05/2026

3 experts walked into the Hangar X Studio and said the same thing from 3 different angles.

The drone war is not coming. It is already here.

A journalist who covers the industry every day. A defense executive who has seen modern conflicts up close. And a US Army officer shaping drone doctrine right now.

All three agree, the country that moves fastest on drone technology wins the next war.

Full episodes on YouTube. Link in bio.

06/03/2026

06/03/2026

Three signals from allied militaries this week point at the same capability gap. Boeing validated MQ-28 Ghost Bat radar cross section data as the CCA competition shifts from autonomy demos to measurable survivability metrics. Ukraine's AI-driven stack intercepted 90% of last weekend's Russian barrag...

06/03/2026

Defense capital and allied procurement policy are converging on the same vendor filter at the same time. Shield AI reached a $12.7B valuation and Anduril $60B as venture funding for defense startups tripled to $29B, while the Army's Project Jailbreak forced ten primes to open their stacks and is now...

06/02/2026

Three signals converged overnight that the Pentagon's domestic build-up thesis misses. A Geran-2 wounded civilians on a Romanian apartment roof while two F-16s held fire for four minutes, proving counter-UAS is now a NATO Article 4 problem, not a procurement one. Vermeer's $20,000 GPS-free kit is in...

06/02/2026

Three independent budget signals this week point at the same structural shift. Army M-SHORAD jumped 56% to $460.9M as counter-UAS became a maneuver force line item. The Pentagon is fighting SpaceX over Starlink pricing mid-war, exposing how contested the data-link layer is under live operational loa...

05/28/2026

Covering a city like Oklahoma City with drones the traditional way costs $2.5 to $3 million. SiFly just brought that down to $500K.

David Mazar, Chief Revenue Officer at SiFly, breaks down how DronePort, a shared drone infrastructure built from a modified 20-foot container delivers 10x better cost per square mile coverage and changes who can actually deploy city-wide drone operations.

Episode 95 out now on Youtube. Don’t miss it. Link in comments.

05/27/2026

Covering a city with drones costs millions. Not anymore.

David Mazar, Chief Revenue Officer at SiFly, breaks down how DronePort delivers 10x better cost per square mile coverage, making city-wide drone deployment accessible for the first time.

Full episode dropping tomorrow on Youtube. Stay tuned!