We Are Ensuring U.S. ‘Military Superiority’ Targeting Cartels
Scientific Systems is helping ensure American “military superiority” with the creation of drone boats to help target cartels, Kunal Mehra, CEO of Scientific Systems, said during an appearance on Breitbart Daily News.
Host Mike Slater introduced Operation Southern Spear, which involves a robotic fleet to target cartels that President Donald Trump has designated as foreign terrorist organizations.
The military operation and surveillance campaign involves “deploying an unprecedented mix of aerial and maritime robotic vessels to counter drug trafficking cartels in Latin America,” Slater said, speaking to Mehra, who runs one of the companies making the products.
“We’re a defense technology software company based in the Boston area, and our primary goal is to ensure American military superiority through the rapid deployment of these very affordable, low-cost swarming drones. And we’re doing it in every domain, literally from the bottom of the sea to space,” Mehra said, detailing these autonomous boats intended for use against cartels.
“So we call this affordable mass capability, and it’s powered by artificial intelligence and autonomy software,” he explained, noting that the days of enemy “system-to-system” adaptation are over.
“You know, a perfect capability to perfect a capability, because it’s become unaffordable. So once the Ukrainian military showed us, you know, best of all, is that bigger ships don’t win wars. It’s all intelligent, software-driven systems that do,” he explained.
“So the idea is to take a large number of very low-cost drones that you can produce and mass-produce them quickly using commercial production lines, and enable those who have software to have really innovative software,” he said. “So instead of trying to fight our adversaries one by one, we have 8, 10, 20 of these systems attacking an adversary’s warship or aircraft at the same time and overwhelming their defenses, you know, coming at them from all sides.”
These marine drones, or unmanned surface vessels, are essentially transformed into weapon systems.
“But basically, you know, we took recreational boats, the kind of things you might take your kids fishing on a weekend, and we turned them into weapon systems,” he said.
“Basically, these are low-cost commercial boats that can be produced in very large numbers, and our system is called VENOM. Our boat is, you know, quite innovative. It happens to be produced in this very sturdy type of plastic,” he said, describing it as “strong, hard, inexpensive and something that can be produced quickly,” Mehra added.
“But what really makes VENOM unique is our artificial intelligence software that’s on the platform. And we call that whole software stack, CMA, collaborative mission autonomy. And what it does is, you know, think of sort of self-driving car technology in a Tesla. We put that on a boat, and then we take it a step further by allowing 10 of these systems to communicate with each other and come together so they can, you know, sail in a warship enemy from multiple angles and overwhelm their defenses,” he explained.
Mehra said they have a partner that produces the boats for them and then explained how it would work with their technology to target the cartels.
“They have sort of a tiered set of systems, don’t they?” » he said of Operation Southern Sphere.
“You’re going to use aerial assets and these sort of fixed core buoys across the Caribbean to be able to initially detect, you know, illicit boats coming into the Caribbean and into U.S. waterways. What VENOM is is we call it an interceptor, because VENOM has great range,” he said.
“So these systems can travel up to 1,000 nautical miles in the current configuration, and they can cruise up to 35 knots at a speed, which is pretty fast. So we can configure them, you know, in a very diverse way, almost like a trip wire, where we just search and monitor the waterways for potential enemy ships coming in,” he said, explaining that their platforms will share data with each other and “triangulate on that that they think are, you know, darker illicit ships are coming.
“And then, with the push of a button, we can order one of our platforms, one of our VENOMs, to go and track one of these systems, right – to track them, provide video and images and surveillance to the military so they can make a judgment about what these people are actually doing,” he said. “Is this actually a commercial fishing vessel, or is this potentially a drug smuggler, and with that video they can then determine what type of action they want to take.”
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