Drone Wars Podcast

All things defense and geopolitics.

Hosted by Dan Magy, Co-Founder and CEO of @firestorm_labs

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Happy 4th of July weekend🇺🇸

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Independence isn't inherited, it's defended🇺🇸

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Stream Mike Flanigan’s full episode⬇️

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This week on Drone Wars: What happens when your autonomous USV runs into Chinese warships in the Taiwan Strait?

@seasats co-founder and CEO, Mike Flanigan dives into it with @DanMagy

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Stream Ben Haldeman’s full episode⬇️

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NEW POD with @ben_haldeman, founder of @goLifeShip, and the man who put a pyramid on the moon🚀

@DanMagy and Ben discuss the space race with China, spreading life beyond Earth, future combat in space, and why the next decade will decide humanity's fate.

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"Calm Before the Tempest"

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Respectfully🙃 @StevenSimoni

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Stream Clark Haymond’s Full Episode⬇️

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Are we sending pilots into the next conflict undertrained?

Former fighter pilot Clark Haymond shares his thoughts on why the EW training gap is a real problem, the AI wingman question, and and whether China is as big of a threat as we think.

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Production at the point of need.

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Stream Omar Javaid’s full episode⬇️

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"Comms is taken for granted — like water and electricity. Until it's taken away."

- Omar Javaid, CEO of @officialrampart, on why battlefield comms is the most underestimated layer of the drone stack.

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In our eyes, he’s CEO of the Year of EVERY year.

Thank you @SDbusiness for recognizing @DanMagy with the 2026 CEO of the Year Award for Private Medium Companies.

“Great leaders empower people to think and act independently.” ~ Dan Magy

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Nobody wants to make the boring parts. That’s exactly the problem.

Rob Sladen, CEO of @ZuluPods talks about about why boring components win wars, what Iran's Shaheds are exposing about American defense readiness, and what it took to bootstrap $8.5M.

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Stream Adam Fife’s full episode⬇️

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"The warfighter is the ultimate innovator." - Adam Fife, founder and CEO of @CenCoreLLC .

@DanMagy and Adam cover how critical it is to put the end-users at the center of product development, why volume is the path to affordability, and why CenCore will never take investors.

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Forbes called 3D printing the Pentagon's most vital asset.

We'd have to agree — and we're proud xCell is featured as a solution to contested logistics.

We initially built xCell to be a drone factory at the edge. It has since become something far bigger.

Today, xCell is deployed across the globe and the demand goes far beyond drones. Operators are using it to build and repair equipment, fabricate custom parts on the spot, and solve logistics problems that used to take months to route through a supply chain.

Read about it:

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Stream Brian’s full episode⬇️

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“We don’t need bigger booms; we need more precise booms.” - Brian Streem