Relentless: How Neros Plans to Build 1 Million Drones a Year

A basement drone startup is scaling into a high-stakes defense manufacturer, and the implications reach far beyond the factory floor. In this condensed summary of Relentless, host Ti Morse speaks with Olaf Hichwa, co-founder and CTO of Neros, about the company’s push from early prototyping to a quarter-million-square-foot plant built to produce up to 1 million drones a year. Instead of chasing flashy autonomy, Hichwa explains how battlefield feedback from Ukraine, AI target-locking, GPS-denied operations, jamming resistance, and “vicious deletion” shape product design. You’ll hear how Neros thinks about FPV drones, interceptor systems, supply chains, manufacturability, and why domestic drone production is becoming a national security issue. This summary trims the full episode into a minutes-long listen, giving you the key ideas on defense technology, industrial capacity, geopolitics, and leadership. Listen now to get the key ideas in minutes.