General Atomics Unveils Long-Range Fires and Low-Cost Interceptors

Eurisatori this year has been really quite interesting

Speed of delivery and lower costs seem to be the themes that we're seeing

This year at Eurisatori, Gelatomics is really proud to be able to show several new technologies

One is Vectrex. Vectrex is our new long-range maneuvering projectile. We spent several years and a lot of money investing in this capability

Our belief is we can launch it for about 120 kilometers out of a 39 standard gunpowder gun

and upwards of 185 to 200 kilometers out of a .52 caliber gun

More importantly, it's steerable, it's got the right weapon on it, and it can work in a jamming environment

so we have other ways to get through that jamming environment. In addition to that, this year we're also showcasing our Bullseye cruise missile

The cruise missile is a long-range, very accurate cruise missile that we are collaborating with our partners, Raphael

and we thank them for their support. In addition to that, Railgun has made a resurgence

Railgun interest is higher than I've seen actually ever because everybody's looking for a low-cost interceptor

And I think railgun projectiles can provide that. Yuris Satori has really given us a new angle

from a lot of the senior leadership that we've met this year. Again, I would say that one of the biggest interests is

what is the lowest-cost interceptor? I think we're thinking differently. You know, we know we can do exquisite missile interceptors

but I think the cost is just more than they want to pay in Europe anyhow and things like railgun projectiles are of great interest You know we also like to talk about our laser technology

but you really have to be flying on an aircraft. And there's interest in being able to shoot from the ground

not from flying from an aircraft at Eurostituary this year. In the last 10 or 15 years, General Atomics has made significant investments

to be very precision focused on being able to make products, especially for munitions and weapon systems

We've invested over a billion dollars in industrial might between filling in gaps and putting in automatic machines

Even in the last year, we put in robotically controlled machines to be able to put out product much quicker and for a lower price

We just celebrated our Tupelo, Mississippi manufacturing facility. We were fortunate enough to have Chairman Roger Wicker from the Senate Armed Services Committee help us get our message out on our industrial capacity

We also had the administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration, Brandon Williams

And we also had the undersecretary for Acquisition Sustainment, the Honorable Mike Duffy

and we showed them our state-of-the-art, what we call Mystic Village, which we built to be able to

use robots to build a long-range maneuvering projectile at a rate equivalent to what Excalibur

has been historically. However, the rate of production, we believe, is going to require

a substantial greater capability, and therefore, GA is really excited that we have several

international potential teammates and countries that want to do co-production with us

And I hope in the future we can announce something that would be spectacular