Ep 598: Future of One Way Attack Drones

Send us Fan Mail Ryan is back on Ones Ready with Aaron and Peaches to talk drones, TACP, small unmanned aerial systems, one-way attack, and where small team warfare is headed. Ryan is a TACP officer, Guardsman, and founder of Aerial Employment Group, a company focused on SUAS training, red air support, counter-SUAS training, program development, and helping military and law enforcement teams figure out what drone systems actually work. In this episode, the crew talks about how small unmanned aerial systems are changing the fight, where drones actually make sense for small teams, how TACP units are using SUAS to support JTAC skills, why one-way attack is becoming a major focus, and why the military’s drone approval and certification process has to move faster. They also get into the reported Zulu course ruck issue, heavy ruck standards, heat casualties, training risk, ownership, and what happens when events drift away from their original purpose. Ryan gives perspective from the TACP side, including how heavy rucks showed up in the TACP pipeline and why evaluated events need to be tied to real standards. Ryan’s company: aerialemploymentgroup.com Check out Tasty Gains: TastyGains.com Gear from ATACLETE: OnesReady.com Train with us: OperatorTrainingSummit.com Chapters: 00:00 - Ones Ready Intro 01:00 - Tasty Gains, ATACLETE, and Operator Training Summit Updates 03:24 - Disclaimer for Ryan’s Personal Views 04:06 - Welcome Ryan Back to Ones Ready 05:24 - Ryan’s Background and Move to the Guard 06:14 - Aerial Employment Group and SUAS Services 07:32 - Government Contracting and Expensive Gear 08:15 - Low-Cost Drone Tech and Commercial Off-the-Shelf Equipment 09:17 - Drone Warfare and Small Team Use Cases 09:52 - Drones Are a Tool, Not the Answer to Everything 10:37 - ISR, Team Support, and Who Should Fly Drones 12:00 - Quadcopters vs. Larger Group Two and Group Three Drones 13:01 - Transition to the Zulu Course Ruck Discussion 15:13 - What Happened With the Zulu Course Ruck? 16:10 - TACP Instructors and the Zulu Block Two Link 17:00 - Reported 10-Mile Ruck Standard and Load 18:49 - First Summer Class and Heat Casualty Reports 19:23 - Medical Coverage and Student Paramedics 20:46 - Heat Conditions, Uniforms, and Safety Decisions 23:03 - What Dry Weight Means in Rucking 23:39 - Ryan’s TACP Schoolhouse Ruck Experience 25:41 - Evaluations, Standards, and Protecting the Process 27:22 - Training Drift and Leadership Decisions 28:00 - What Do You Tell Students After an Incident? 29:17 - Owning Bad Decisions as a Leader 29:55 - When to Call Off a Training Event 31:10 - Ranger School Rope Story and Extreme Ownership 33:11 - Parents, Students, and Today’s Connected Pipeline 35:29 - Why TACP Did Heavy Rucks 37:00 - Does This Standard Apply to Every AFSPECWAR Career Field? 38:16 - Parent Involvement and Pipeline Communication 41:26 - Time, Emotions, and Letting the Schoolhouse Respond 43:47 - Accountability Without Cancel Culture 46:27 - Medical Planning and After-Action Reviews 49:17 - Back to SUAS and TACP Drone Use 51:15 - TACP as ACC’s One-Way Attack Lead 52:00 - How TACP Units Are Using SUAS Now 53:20 - ACC, AFSOC, and SUAS Program Ownership 54:42 - SUAS Programmatics and Airframe Certification 56:00 - Blue UAS, NDAA Systems, and FPV Drone Risk 58:16 - Building and Flying Non-Standard Drone Systems 59:08 - Frequencies, Jamming, and Ukraine Drone Lessons 01:00:00 - Stop Being Platform Specific 01:01:20 - Certification, Currency, and Drone Training Problems 01:02:22 - Final Thoughts and Wrap-Up Support the show Join this channel to get access to perks: HERE Buzzsprout Subscription page: HERE Register for our Operator Training Summit: OperatorTrainingSummit.com Find an Air Force Recruiter: AirForce.com Collabs: Ones Ready - OnesReady.com 18A Fitness - Promo Code: ONESREADY ATACLete - Follow the URL (no promo code): ATACLete Danger Close Apparel - Promo Code: ONESREADY DFND Apparel...