AimLock downs drones by making old munitions great again

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00:00For all the talk about future wars being fought by machines, right now one of the most persistent

00:07and growing threats on the battlefield is something far simpler, cheap, off-the-shelf

00:13drones.

00:15These Unmanned Aerial Systems, or UAS, have become the new IED, hard to spot, deadly,

00:22and everywhere.

00:23But what if the solution to a machine threat is an even smarter machine?

00:28That's where AIMLOCK comes in and why they're the subject of our Weapon of the Week.

00:36For AIMLOCK, the job isn't just trying to shoot drones down, it's about providing autonomous

00:42counter-UAS systems, an automated defense that can detect, track, and neutralize threats with

00:49both speed and precision.

00:52So we use our Keystone core targeting module to accelerate target acquisition and calculate

00:58all of the advanced fire control.

01:00Most of the time, that's deployed onto a remote weapons turret, which is why you see so many

01:05variations of that.

01:06These just match up with the specific mission sets that our end-user customers have.

01:11But when we integrate into larger systems, that same module integrates radar sensors, camera

01:17sensors, and any other kind of effector like missiles and rockets as we need them.

01:22As Brian Bachman, the President and CEO of AIMLOCK sees it, the US military has a full arsenal

01:28of kinetic weapons, like machine guns, grenades, and rocket launchers, that are still effective,

01:34but risk becoming obsolete if they can't be used in the right place at the right time.

01:59Bachman says AIMLOCK took lessons learned from the dawn of the smart weapon era to deliver

02:04something that's more cost effective and adaptable to new weapons systems that come online.

02:09So by creating modules, it allowed us to experiment, learn what we needed to learn, take advantage

02:15of whatever the circumstances are at the moment, and put together the right system for the right

02:19time.

02:20The great part about that is, as soon as one piece becomes obsolete, you can replace just

02:25that one piece and the rest of the system keeps marching forward.

02:28Yeah.

02:29You bet.

02:30Let's talk about distribution, clients, customers, all that kind of stuff.

02:33Where are you guys operating, who buys your stuff, that kind of thing.

02:37Right.

02:38Yeah, we've got a global market.

02:39You know, the US State Department regulates the transfer of our weapons technology out to

02:44our partner nations.

02:46So all of NATO, Indo-Pacific, all of the partner nations in each of these areas are verified recipients

02:53of these export licenses.

02:55So AIMLOC works to make sure that the electronics, the software, and all of our manufacturing partners

03:00are properly licensed.

03:03We transfer the equipment to those nations, then train and sustain after that.

03:08As for what's next, Bachman says they've developed partnerships with Overland, AI MVP Robotics,

03:15and Teledyne to deliver on several experiments set for the next year.

03:20He tells us warfighters have already started taking delivery of these new systems so they

03:25can put them to the test and develop new ways to bring AIMLOC to the fight.

03:30kids are valued.

03:37Oh, MIT.

03:39Whoever is ready.

03:41We will do this next bit.

03:45We will do it.

03:46Sorry.

03:46This doesn't work.

03:47I'm a man.

03:48Raise your hand.

03:50I'm Erfolg.

03:51I'll come back and learn into the industry fundamentals.

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