$ONDS

MY 4 FAVORITE DRONE COMPANIES One of my top initiatives for the Growth Portfolio over the rest of the year is building out my 'Drone' bucket. I’m building exposure across every layer of the drone stack including platforms, autonomy, sensors, counter-drone systems and the hardware underneath it all: 1. $AVAV (the weapon layer) AeroVironment is the expendable weapon end of the theme since it makes Switchblade drones which are the small, cheap "kamikaze" drones that launch, hit a target, and are gone. These get used up in combat so demand scales directly with how much modern warfare leans on attritable strikes. My exposure here is to drones being fired in volume, the purest "loitering munitions get consumed" bet with a ~$1.1B Switchblade backlog. 2. $KTOS (the aircraft layer) Kratos is t