Palmer Luckey’s defense technology startup, Anduril Industries, is developing products he says the United States needs as a matter of national security. Anduril has already built surveillance systems for military and defense agencies and is now adding a drone-destroying capability to its product line. The company recently secured a contract to deploy its interceptor system in conflict zones overseas. But all of this makes Anduril, and Luckey, highly unusual in the tech industry, which has seen workers openly rebel against any work that would give surveillance capabilities to law enforcement or the military.
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Anduril: The Startup Building Surveillance Systems & Drone-Smashers For The Military | NBC News Now
This is complete BS…. CRAP.
we will always advance beyond the parameters
IRON MAN.
Children in Africa could have eaten that drone…..
What if somebody build a drone that’s stronger than those drones and then they have a dog fight that would be fun
they already have a drone that the police and army plan to use for this one thing people are afraid of and it comes from a company called Cyphy they make it so they can watch it through all hours of the day and night smh
Anduril Flame of the West forged from the Shards of Narsil
merideth looks like a hardcore SJW
0:46 It sounded like he said ninety two hundred mph and I was like “wow it’s 5 times faster than fighter jet”
Yip what he said… probably 92mph
@@tyronevanwyk3652 I think he said 90-100mph
Not sure how this guy can call himself a libertarian when he’s providing the military with the tools to build automated weapons.
bet ya if asked, he wouldn’t be able to answer but trying some way to change the topic. good point!
This nerd just wants to be Tony Stark.
GG I get it.
Nod
Sure the drone are not moving. Lets see a dog fight of drones.
Heh, what could possibly go wrong?
Nothing worse than a MAGA-bro with a ‘Soul Patch’.
Says a guy with the communist picture for the DP
Tech industry: Tech too brittle to monitor battlefield. Perfect for millions of autonomous cars on crowded streets, school zones.
so now muricans will be allowed to carry attack for self-protection nice:)
Syndrome in the Incredibles?
The reporter sells the s*** so well he deserves to get paid by that company. When a drawing turn into each other and he’s like oh you think there’s people flying inside of those he’s all concerned makes it seem way more intense and it was
I could avoid that drone attack with the flip trick on my $25 drone.
Shhh, Pentagon boomers don’t know this yet.
goodluck avoiding a fast reusable kinetic anti drone rocket that obliterates your drone before you can even react from the kinetic impact leaving the rocket unscathed which can be reused over and over.
Would you like to live under Chinese rule? If you do keep protesting about privacy and stopping these technonlogies from developing. Sometimes it feels like these anti this and that people actually want the hard line countries to take over and rule us all. This tech is actually proctecting our ultemate freedom.
Good story for a spy movie!!
Strong country need strong military! Dumbasses leftist!
$13.5 million. That’s it? Is that just R&D costs?
Amazing it is !!!
If you are looking for power tethering solution.
You can look out at these guys they have already with solution, power tethering for mavic 2 pro.
#IspagroRobotics
she talks like she’s half deaf…
I’m sure he is Republican because his goatie is leaning right.
Elon Musk : Iron Man
Lucky Palmer : Syndrome
Continue the others yall😎
I’d love to see it try hit a race quadcopter
Why are we afraid of or own military? Its crazy
Because they’re not authorized to operate within the United States of America…it’s crazy you need to be told this
@@nowayagain8141 my entire point went over your head. The us military is made up of americans meaning any troop that shoots at an american has another troop shooting at his own family. No troop would do that with realizing what i said
@@nowayagain8141 That’s the CIA. I trust our military more than I do most of our 3 letter agencies. Barring the rank and file, that is.
4:33 REALLY?!? THAT IS HER CONCERN WITH ALL THIS?!?!?
Isn’t it more concerning the potential violation for privacy and government using it on their own citizens?!
If this technology gets in the hands of a government that is corrupt or does not have individual rights it can create a 1984 like state.
Oh look, thier blatantly showing whats coming to those that dont comply or consent..
what annoys me is that they prevent civilians from using them to keep getting the contracts
It is a very short step from surveillance drones to hunter-killer drones with mounted weaponry.
Good. Military needs those too.
Those google and amazon employees are ok using their tech for China but not to protect our military men and women… hypocrites
that’s exactly what Peter Thiel said.
make sure to check out our worlds first 2in1 UAV System! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BUYJ88iJVA
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Hahaha DJI smasher.. wink wink china wink wink 😀
thats a lotta winking goin on there; was that 2 winks with each eye or 4 winks with the same eye & if 4 winks with 1 eye = which eye did you wink 4 times with?
Anything for money he will sell to anyone.
He is in it for the money, don’t kid yourself
He got around $700 million from Oculus… so there goes that brilliant theory. Did you see that huge American flag in his shop? He’s a patriot obviously. He’s also risking his own money to
help protect the western way of life (i.e. freedom), and of course ungrateful idiots like you to boot.
It is a bit like gun control, which is out of control. Genie is out of the bottle, and can’t be put back.
why tf luckey walk like that bruh
A libertarian who gives up his libertarian views for a check isn’t really a libertarian very much at all.
How is this superior to….NSO……from israel ….?
Wait whats special in this? Wouldn’t you just shoot the drone with a bullet.
Meredith is part of the problem
Watchdogs legions
Meridith looks crazy
That’s not libertarian that’s neocon.
Good tech interview with so much of wisdom-related to the US security rather than bunch big city under AC, imaginary people like Meredith Whittaker, She cannot understand the threat from China and other Countries…Many tech companies people are in a virtual world like their companies
Man, this dude is living a fantasy life if he thinks a vast majority of Americans even have an opinion on the military, much less outright respect for it. Even Trump didn’t do anything for the military besides a routine pay raise. Nobody actually cares about you until they need you.
Palmer Luckey is a walking Disney stereotype. I lick like Disney, yum yum yum.
If you just iniatiate a flip it will move either to the left or right away from an attacking drone, you just gotta be quick enough to dodge. That’s gonna be fun to mess around🤣
Democrats are the most naive most self destructive people I have ever seen in my life. China is literally building a military that is the double of ours and they’re going to get aggressive soon. Wake your idiotic prey brains up.
Start walking on four legs instead…
A republican libertarian building surveillance drones, I feel like I’m about to be sucked into an irony black hole.
Break down your microwave and build mimi emps 🙌🤷♂️
Who cares keep us safe
If a broken propellor and a battery falling out is enough to make a drone “destroyed”, then what the frick is my drone considered?
Man that guy is naive or just lying lol
It’s CONCERNING that private tech companies more powerful than any country on the face of the planet are more capable than the US military and show more support for the chinese communist regime. That’s crazy to me.
Gosh he acts like America is essential not already a militaristic society. You send your poor out to fight for oil, and before they understand that they are oppressors you pump them up with calling them hero’s who fought for “freedom”. I mean your military opens sports events. Your military gifts free pc games to children. That is not normal.
Gunpowder was originally used for medicinal purposes.
Sure… “border security.”
Put a 352 on that and I’ll take two please.
That’s right ban these things in the US, let the hostiles develop them first
I remember that villain Syndrome from The Incredibles.
For Swarms Of Retail-Type Drones Use “Old West” Style Windmills
Add Cheap Proximity Radar (Cop’s Radar Gun)
Add Homemade Rockets ( Scrap Metal/Gravel For Shrapnel)
You Then Have A FLAK TOWER (Powered By The Wind)
Drone? You poorly educated illiterates. Go get yourself a fkn education and learn the definition of ‘drone’, schoolboys!
ironic that employees of google, probably the creepiest surveillance operation and intelligence gathering organisation ever would criticise this guy – oh yeah, he doesnt share their politics… *destroy him* !
The company logo is the hilt of anduril sowrd of the west
Soooo they can smash a stationary drone but my aircraft does 80kmh and turns on a dime so really he is building useless crap
Eventually one day all this will be turned on civilians, good luck.
https://youtu.be/HYMdR6cP8TE
He’s not a libertarian. If anything, he’s a right wing authoritarian. The man doesn’t know the first thing about libertarianism.
The government could use these gadgets to control and repress the population. That is also a risk
Those employees who are complaining , why do they think they are sleeping peacefully in their homes? It’s because of the defense forces. It’s-basic responsibility to support the forces rather than condemning anything. More over most of them are working on softwares to give more ads so it’s better to bring some meaning to your lives by atleast not obstructing the support
I really find a lot in common in mentality with this guy. Really cool guy
“This is not something that is put to a democratic process to deliberate”
Neither is anything else military related. There is no public process for people two choose whether or not they want the military’s missiles to be more accurate.
Whittaker has to be the dumbest person I’ve ever seen. The military too brass are the experienced experts that need to have wholesale power to provide whatever technology and equipment in order to maximize military power
Libertarian building weapons for the state to oppress him lmao…
If you cross China’s border illegally they will shoot you immediately, no warning, no excuse. Poor country won’t protect their borders. Poorer countries deprives themselves from protecting it.
Thank you to the academics who stand up to US government in trying to draw the line.
6:53… he is a douch bag just like Mark Zuckerberg in knowing from the jump they was going to sell out to the D.O.D.
Lol. As if this wont be turned on Americans. Silly sheep.
The journalist should try tell your enemies not to build those weapon to be use on you. Better safe than Sorry.
I’m saying if ya put these near me I shooting them down it just weird having something follow you
but his best and most valued asset is, his unstoppable and iridescent vanity
This guy is a sellout and a POS
He helps them spy for $
Tony Stark
They should now make drones that can detect IEDs using infra red tech ,,this can help our soldiers from stepping on IEDs while doing patrols while in peace keeping missions
very modern
A camera on a pole, a camera on a drone helicopter, what will you invent first next ?
Will it be a camera on a truck or will it be sliced bread ?
Anduril is the name of Aragorn’s sword from LOTR – Anduril Flame of the West 🙂
1:44 WHAT are the two oddly shaped objects in the sky to the left of the reporter’s head? They sure don’t look like drones. Looks like UAPs. Probably swamp gas
Skynet, the beginning.
Palmer Luckey is over 6ft, this journalist gotta be over 6’9!!
Because poor people are the targets of the rich.
Palmer Luckey is such a great dude!
You are tony stark iron man😂
Like a prequal to a famous movie series … We’ll be seeing more of Mr. Luckey – he’ll be back.
motive: military contract, the tech is unstoppable, our societies ethics aren’t keeping up with the times though. Our “GOD” is money. Military Industrial Complex, so profitable.