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When I say the words Whiskey
Project, what images come to mind

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Right? Me too. So imagine our surprise when we
pulled up to the team manning the Whiskey Project

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group booth at Modern Day Marine, only
to learn whiskey was code for watercraft

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And I mean, it was impressive, no arguing that
point, which is why it's our weapon of the week

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Even parked on a display stand in the middle
of the Washington, D.C. Convention Center

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the 30-foot Whiskey Alpha makes an immediate impression.
Touted as being crafted by warfighters for warfighters

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the Alpha is essentially a product of Darren Shuback's personal experience.
I left the Navy and I had a mission to build the boats that I wish we could

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Throughout my tenure in the Navy,
I experienced a number of different

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challenges with the small craft that
we were conducting our missions from

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Whether they were safety, performance or just being generally fit for purpose for the mission at hand So that was our primary
focus through the development of this business Based out of Sydney Australia Shuback is the Whiskey Project founder and CEO

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He tells us the Alpha and its big
brother, the 40-foot-long Bravo

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feature modular platforms that maximize deck space and
payload, making them adaptable for various operations

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It was important for us throughout the development of the
craft to maximize versatility with any craft we design

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And you'll see here in the Whiskey Alpha, it's completely
modular by design because the mission steps can change

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They can change at a moment's notice, and we need to be able to adapt our craft, adapt
our technology to be able to provide a fit-for-purpose solution for the mission at hand

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Mission at hand, but also like the
customer might be different, right

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Like the Australian Royal Navy might want something different than the
USMC, then the Navy, they all might want something a little bit different

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And you're able to kind of give
them that playground, so to speak

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Yeah that right It almost like choose your own adventure with the craft Whatever you need to do however you need to
adapt the craft you can do that And that not only through the back deck area here it through the modular mass system

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it's through the access to power, versatility
of the architecture underneath the deck here

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So it's more than just the deck that you see here. Chewbacca
says the Alpha and the Bravo are built for quick deployment

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offering convenient access and retrieval. Both
can be transported by land or dropped from the air

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What we've done here is demonstrated what we
believe to be an ultimate package for the customer

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base level package for the customer. We've designed the craft to have that
open architecture, electronic infrastructure underneath the craft here

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so that they can essentially
plug and play as they see fit

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Whether it's by sensor system, whether it's by
autonomous systems or remote control systems

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whatever they want to plug in, they can plug that in. One major consideration for the design team was improving the ride for the operators Shoeback says
historically crews working on small boats get pretty beat up and have to deal with knee and back problems the types of injuries that could end careers

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So both boats have shock mitigating
hulls built from carbon fiber composite

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That means the boats are more stable and operators
don't get tired or sore on the way to the fight

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The design of this hull provides a 40%, up to a 40% reduction in shock onto the hull and
therefore onto the human or onto the sensitive equipment that they're hosting on board

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It has a lower planing threshold as well, which means it gets up onto the plane and stays on the plane
a lot better than the traditional deep V craft, creating more fuel efficiency with the craft as well

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As for potential customers, Shoeback tells us four of the Bravos have already been
delivered to Marines in California, where they've been tested extensively for several months

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And the Alpha that we were on in D.C. was actually sent
to Marines in Tampa, Florida for testing and evaluation