EP 101 — Purple Rhombus's Mike Benitez On Building 100,000 Group 2 Drones A Year Using Factories That Already Exist
Mike Benitez, CEO of Purple Rhombus, has built the Grackle™, an attritable Group 2 UAS, on a production model he claims can deliver 100,000 units a year using factories that already exist.
Mike walks Dave through why most UAS companies can build prototypes fast but cannot scale, and how Purple Rhombus splits the airframe "truck" from a separate "missionization" layer for one-way attack, ISR, or aerial target. He also lays out the supply chain math nobody talks about. A single supplier of servos (the small motors that steer the drone) at 8,000 a month caps you at 2,000 aircraft, so Purple…
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