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Hangar X Studios Hangar X Studios is a show for the aerospace community. We aim for content to be both entertaining and educational and we seek to uncover

Guests include thought leaders from the world of business, medicine, military, government and, of course, aerospace.

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...

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

05/22/2026

Military drones are clearing production gates while eVTOL timelines get harder to defend

05/22/2026

China, counter drone, and unmanned aircraft are forcing aviation leaders to rethink leverage

Robinson didn't just build the world's most popular civilian helicopter. Now they're launching drones from submarines.Da...
05/21/2026

Robinson didn't just build the world's most popular civilian helicopter. Now they're launching drones from submarines.

David Smith, CEO at Robinson Helicopter Company joined us for round two and went deep contested logistics, helicopters as aircraft carriers in the sky, and why the era of both manned and unmanned is already underway.

Episode out now. Link in comments.

05/20/2026

Robinson has been building helicopters for 50 years. Now their drones are stopping car chases and launching from submarines.

David Smith, CEO at Robinson Helicopter Company, breaks down why the era of manned and unmanned flight together is already here and why Robinson is leading it.

Full episode dropping tomorrow on Youtube. Link in comments.

05/20/2026

Interceptor drones, swarm boxes, and cheap airframes are rewriting military economics

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