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Speaker 2: Joining us now is Sam Vi. He's the CEO of

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Speaker 2: SIUs Aerospace. It's a rapidly expanding robotics company that develops

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Speaker 2: and manufacturers, manufacturers cutting each uncrewed vehicles across eat, land

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Speaker 2: and c And it is a pleasure to have Sam

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Speaker 2: on the program. Now, Sam, good afternoon.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, good afternoon.

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Speaker 1: Hey, how long has.

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Speaker 4: Cyrus been in business? Am I? Am I pronouncing the

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Speaker 4: name of your company correctly?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's correct, Sire Serah Space. Yeah, so we incorporated

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Speaker 3: in January twenty twenty one, so just having four years old.

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Speaker 4: Now wow, And what exactly do you manufacture?

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Speaker 3: So we develop, manufacture basically uncrewed vehicles, so robotics and drones,

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Speaker 3: it's fair to say across AirLand and sea. So if

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Speaker 3: you like, you know the standard small drones that you

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Speaker 3: might be able to purchase online up to sort of

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Speaker 3: uncrewed helicopters planes. Uh, and then on the on land

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Speaker 3: we have autonomous uncrewed six wheeler ground vehicles through to

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Speaker 3: maritime sector on the water, so uncrewed boats.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, we're talking about those today because of the purchase

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Speaker 4: of these blue bottles that are that are out of Australia.

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Speaker 4: What can uncrew uncrewed service surface vehicles do? Vesicles do?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so we call them u S fees, So uncrewed

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Speaker 3: surface vessels US fees. They they they can cover a

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Speaker 3: broad spectrum of different capabilities. So obviously the blue bottle

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Speaker 3: is a you know, is a fantastic U S fee.

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Speaker 3: It's it's meant for long endurance surveillance in the maritime domain.

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Speaker 3: The actual U S fees that size does we we

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Speaker 3: actually produce a range of US fees predominantly faster boat

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Speaker 3: so up to sort of fifty knots you know, it

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Speaker 3: was one hundred klimeters an hour boats which can also

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Speaker 3: do not just surveillance but also cargo transportation as well.

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Speaker 4: So I'm looking at the sem three hundred USV that

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Speaker 4: you guys produce. It's a very cool looking machine, whereas

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Speaker 4: you've got to say the blue bottle is pretty underwhelming

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Speaker 4: looking and it's you know, it's not really it's not

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Speaker 4: really what it looks like, but it looks like a

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Speaker 4: kid threw it. Really, So what is the sort of

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Speaker 4: difference there between the SEM three hundred, for example, and

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Speaker 4: the Blue Bottle.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, so the Blue Bottle is a is a

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Speaker 3: slow speed, longer endurance, more persistent surveillance drone if you like,

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Speaker 3: whereas our boat, our us V is a higher speed

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Speaker 3: still with long endurance but not quite as long as

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Speaker 3: the Blue Bottle boat drone us V. That can say,

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Speaker 3: there's some illegal fishing going on in the New Zealand waters,

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Speaker 3: our boat would be able to not just identify, not

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Speaker 3: just detect it, but would be able to accelerate over

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Speaker 3: to where the where the incursion occurred, to identify the

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Speaker 3: vessel and potentially track it until it leaves the leaves

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Speaker 3: the New Zealand waters, as well as to communicate in

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Speaker 3: the that incursion back to the operator which would be

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Speaker 3: on the New Zealand mainland.

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Speaker 4: So is there any way that you can communicate So

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Speaker 4: as you say, a vessel that's doing something that it

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Speaker 4: shouldn't be doing in the New Zealand's ev you heat

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Speaker 4: up to it and the SUM three hundred, what what

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Speaker 4: do you can only surveil? Can it? Can it? Does

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Speaker 4: it have speakers? Can you relay messages to the people

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Speaker 4: on board?

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Speaker 1: You know?

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Speaker 4: Move along you're you're not supposed to be doing what

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Speaker 4: you're doing.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, pretty much the world does your oyster in terms

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Speaker 3: of available payloads, right, so we could you know, it

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Speaker 3: could have exactly right, you could have loudspeakers on if

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Speaker 3: you wanted. We also have the capability to launch aerial

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Speaker 3: drones from the USV as well that can fly over

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Speaker 3: the top of say that that that that other boat,

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Speaker 3: that ship, and you know even go down to the

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Speaker 3: bridge and identify the people driving that boat. So there's

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Speaker 3: a lot of capabilities right with the usbe's. So ultimately

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Speaker 3: the USB is really just a platform how I for example,

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Speaker 3: customs and the DF want to customize the platform is

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Speaker 3: all based on what payloads might be installed and integrated.

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Speaker 3: And so we work with a bunch of customers, typically overseas,

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Speaker 3: and they have an array of different payloads that they

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Speaker 3: might want to have on from from various different surveillance

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Speaker 3: style of payloads, so you know, large radar systems, you know,

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Speaker 3: different camera types, food to potentially even have an aerial

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Speaker 3: drones operating or even subs drones. So r o V

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Speaker 3: is operating from the us FEE for different applications.

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Speaker 4: Would you ever have a weaponized USBU.

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Speaker 3: Well, obviously that's hot in the press right now. We

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Speaker 3: we we we we typically develop a manufacturer just the platform,

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Speaker 3: so it's you know the So, no, we don't make

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Speaker 3: weaponized products.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's very impressive the vehicles you do manufacture. So

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Speaker 2: clearly New Zealand, you're based here in New Zealand, we

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Speaker 2: can be a world leader in this in this area.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, absolutely, So it's fair to say we fly under

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Speaker 3: the radar, no pun intended, but yeah, so so New

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Speaker 3: Zealand's got some you know, not just size, but there's

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Speaker 3: a there's a number of other companies in New Zealand

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Speaker 3: that's a world leading in the in the in the drone,

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Speaker 3: the uncrewed vehicle technology industry, and certainly I think with

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Speaker 3: the recently announced DVP obviously there's a few people think

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Speaker 3: in that New Zealand doesn't have technology, doesn't have an industry.

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Speaker 3: But certainly we've got a maizing technology that entered df

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Speaker 3: PAN leverage.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, there's an INZIDF has said they're looking at spending

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Speaker 4: two hundred million to four hundred and fifty million dollars

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Speaker 4: in this area. Is that something that you can put

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Speaker 4: your hand up and provide for the NZDF.

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Speaker 1: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, yeah, we're very keen to support anti DF in

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Speaker 3: in rolling out to this DCP.

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Speaker 2: Brilliant Sam, great to chat with you all the best

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Speaker 2: and hopefully we'll catch up against.

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Speaker 3: So yeah, thank you, Matt.

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Speaker 2: That is Sam Vi, CEO of SIUs Aerospace International, which

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Speaker 2: is based right here in New Zealand.

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