EP 110 — AdlerAerospace’s Wilhelm Meya On The Broken Math Of Drone Defense
Wilhelm Meya spent his first career building linguistic technology. Then he pivoted into aerospace, founded AdlerAerospace, and started integrating battle-tested Ukrainian and European drone technologies for U.S. and allied defense customers. Two and a half years in, the company builds heavy-lift UAVs, autonomous interceptors, and counter-UAS systems, and was selected for the Pentagon's Drone Dominance program and the DARPA Heavy Lift Challenge.
Wilhelm tells Dave Graff why the only real answer to cheap long-distance strike drones is a cost-matched kinetic interceptor, how his team partners…
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