Drone Wars
Hosted by Steve and Steven Simoni and Steve Simoni · Allen Control Systems (ACS)
4.5from 75 ratings
- 103
- Episodes
- 85
- Transcribed
- 75
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2024
- First episode
- 495K
- YouTube views
About Drone Wars
The preeminent podcast for all things drones, defense tech, defense policy, and modern warfare. Featured guests include industry leaders, policy experts, military warfighters, business titans, and many more. Hosted by Steve Simoni, co-founder and President of Allen Control Systems.
- Publisher
- Allen Control Systems (ACS)
- Category
- technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 24 Sept 2024
- Latest episode
- 23 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
85 of 103 episodes have a transcript.
23 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Distributed Radar, AI, and the Future of Counter-UAS | Matthew Kling, MatrixSpace
19 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
The Business of Drone Autonomy: Hardware, Defense, and AI | Stefan Hrabar, Emesent
12 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Building Low-Cost Missiles to Defeat Drones | Malin & LeGrand Crewse, Corvus Industries
Inside a recent episode
Distributed Radar, AI, and the Future of Counter-UAS | Matthew Kling, MatrixSpace
Published 23 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] There's a lot of parts So there's there's you know, you've got a transmitter and a receiver, right? So You need antennas, right? So it's a phased array. So you're talking about patch antennas organized on a on a printed circuit board and um it's electronically steerable so you need to have beamformers that can steer the beam uh phase shifters um you need to have you know all your rf front end back end you know mixers and uh filters all that stuff so all of that goes on to our rf circuit board that we develop with the antennas embedded right in that um and one of the ways that we build the radar is there's other radars out there and Some of them have like very exquisite materials, you know, solid state amplifiers, you know, very high power. […]
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- Matthew Kling
- Stefan Hrabar
- Malin Crewse
- LeGrand Crewse
- Derek McBride
Reach and audience
Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
- YouTube views
- 494,738
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.7 / 5
- 25 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.4 / 5
- 50 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 79 / 100
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- Quality
- 89
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 86
- Engagement
- 85
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Who hosts Drone Wars?
Steve and Steven Simoni and Steve Simoni host the show. Published by Allen Control Systems (ACS).
How often do new episodes come out?
The show publishes weekly, based on its RSS feed.
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