What podcasts say about Wayne Sanders

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What Wayne Sanders has said on podcasts

23 statements · 17 positive · 5 negative · 1 neutral

on Directed energy weaponsNeutralSep 4, 2026· Odd Lots
Lasers target individual objects, while high-powered microwaves can affect multiple electronic systems.
“a laser is essentially a precision weapon. It concentrates energy into a narrow... beam and typically attacks one target at a time. But when you look at high powered microwaves, those weapons attack electronics. It's a larger beam that can potentially affect multiple systems simultaneously.”
Listen at 10:36
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on High-powered microwave weaponsPositiveSep 4, 2026· Odd Lots
High-powered microwaves are suited to attacking drone swarms.
“a drone swarm perspective, you're going to want a high-powered microwave. You want something that is a wider... a wider range you want something that's going to be able to hit multiple targets at the same time”
Listen at 12:35
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on High-energy lasersPositiveSep 4, 2026· Odd Lots
Lasers can destroy individual incoming ballistic missiles.
“if you're pointing a laser directly at a single ballistic missile that's coming at you you want to be able to destroy that thing you want to be able to knock that out of the sky”
Listen at 12:52
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on Military directed-energy systemsPositiveSep 4, 2026· Odd Lots
Military directed-energy systems need to become deployable on trucks and ships.
“the deployability aspect of where a lot of the militaries are going right now is I need to be able to throw something onto a truck. I need to be able to throw something onto a ship”
Listen at 14:43
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on Tactical high energy laserPositiveSep 4, 2026· Odd Lots
The tactical high energy laser demonstrated destruction of rockets and artillery rounds in flight.
“It demonstrated that a laser could actually destroy rockets and artillery rounds in flight.”
Listen at 19:20
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on MIRACLPositiveSep 4, 2026· Odd Lots
DARPA’s MIRACL laser destroyed live short-range rockets.
“it destroyed live short-range rockets as well.”
Listen at 19:33
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on Helios platformPositiveSep 4, 2026· Odd Lots
The Navy has a ship-mounted laser weapon platform.
“the Navy does have that”
Listen at 21:38
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on RF drone gunsPositiveSep 4, 2026· Odd Lots
RF drone guns can disable drones.
“We do have drone guns that can be used for RF and be able to push out to knock drones out of the sky”
Listen at 21:51
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on Handheld laser weaponsNegativeSep 4, 2026· Odd Lots
Power generation and compression constrain handheld laser weapons.
“I would say it's power generation and compression.”
Listen at 22:28
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on Directed-energy weaponsPositiveSep 4, 2026· Odd Lots
Directed-energy weapons have very low cost per shot.
“one of the reasons that you look for high-powered microwaves, high-energy laser solutions, this directed energy platform, is because the cost per shot is very low.”
Listen at 24:51
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on Exquisite missile interceptorsPositiveSep 4, 2026· Odd Lots
Exquisite missile interceptors remain necessary against hypersonic weapons.
“You cannot get rid of those because you have adversaries who have hypersonic weapons.”
Listen at 25:57
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on Hypersonic weaponsPositiveSep 4, 2026· Odd Lots
Hypersonic weapons require exquisite defensive capabilities for interception.
“If a hypersonic weapon is launched, you are going to want to use one of your more exquisite capabilities to make sure that you can knock that thing out of the sky”
Listen at 26:02
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on Military self-defense authorityPositiveSep 4, 2026· Odd Lots
Military forces retain self-defense authority as their top priority.
“the military knows at that point in time. They also know that they have the right to self-defense. So that is always priority number one”
Listen at 30:39
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on Tactical commandersPositiveSep 4, 2026· Odd Lots
Tactical commanders should use whatever weapons are necessary to protect their forces.
“you are going to use whatever is necessary to protect your force. It doesn't matter.”
Listen at 33:53
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on Low-cost interceptors and directed-energy systemsPositiveSep 4, 2026· Odd Lots
Defense demand is increasing for low-cost interceptors and directed-energy systems.
“low cost containerized munitions, those low cost interceptors, the high powered microwave, high energy laser, the urgency and demand for some of these systems is because exactly what you're saying is I want at my level”
Listen at 36:53
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on China’s critical-mineral supply chainsNegativeSep 4, 2026· Odd Lots
China controls 85–90% of some critical-mineral supply chains.
“They have sometimes 85, even 90 percent of the supply chain.”
Listen at 42:09
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on Military tactical-strike AIPositiveSep 4, 2026· Odd Lots
Human oversight remains in tactical-strike AI decisions.
“Those are things that are still maintained. Those are human in the loop AI problems.”
Listen at 47:59
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on Military AINegativeSep 4, 2026· Odd Lots
Military AI cannot yet independently execute target destruction.
“we are not at the point where AI is going to go, I see that truck, I've been given an order to destroy it, and I am going to take that target execution authority that I mentioned earlier and just drop the bomb.”
Listen at 49:15
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on Directed-energy systemsPositiveSep 4, 2026· Odd Lots
Directed-energy development is transitioning from research into procurement.
“it is transitioning to procurement.”
Listen at 50:05
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on 50-kilowatt laserPositiveSep 4, 2026· Odd Lots
A 50-kilowatt laser can destroy an incoming drone in one engagement.
“the 50 kilowatt laser is capable of if a drone is flying at you, you should be able to knock that drone down at one time.”
Listen at 52:06
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on One-megawatt laserNegativeSep 4, 2026· Odd Lots
A static one-megawatt laser is limited by its dependence on shore power.
“Having a one megawatt laser that is static because you need to plug it into shore power. is is limited in a certain aspect”
Listen at 53:16
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on Iron BeamPositiveSep 4, 2026· Odd Lots
Israel’s Iron Beam is approximately 150 kilowatts, versus 50-kilowatt U.S. systems.
“Iron Beam is kind of leading the way, right? It's about, I think, if I'm not mistaken, it's about 150 kilowatts compared to our 50 kilowatts.”
Listen at 54:27
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on Laser systemsNegativeSep 4, 2026· Odd Lots
Atmospheric conditions affect laser-system performance.
“atmospherics does affect. uh how that system actually works”
Listen at 55:17
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