Today we discuss two rival interceptors for the Patriot air defense system: Lockheed Martin's PAC-3 Edge, a longer, more agile successor to the PAC-3 MSE, and Anduril's modular Steelfin family, pitched at a fraction of the cost for the Army's Future Interceptor program. Get the defense stories behind the headlines every week in The Lowdown: https://lowdownnews.us Former F-16 pilot John "Rain" Waters breaks down why attitude control motors matter in the end game, why watching AMRAAMs and AIM-9Xs spent on drones makes cost per shot a fighter pilot's problem too.
