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Drone launched precision effect for defence forces

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01 Capability

Precision mass without a swarm

The usual answer

Many, dispersed

Volume replaces certainty. Every unit needs to be carried, charged, launched and accounted for, and the effect on the target is still an average.

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One, decisive

One launch, one line, one point. The drone the unit already flies carries a precise effect instead of a crowd of guesses.

Precision mass is not more units. It is fewer units that arrive where they are aimed, carried by aircraft already in service.

Designed and built in India, for the world.

02 Terrain

Win any terrain

Aerial plate of a high altitude ridgeline at night
01 Terrain

High altitude ridgeline

Cold start above 5,000 m, ridge to ridge, no ground support equipment.

Aerial plate of a high altitude ridgeline at night
01

High altitude

Cold start to 5,000 m, no ground support

Aerial plate of open desert dunes at dusk
02

Desert

Sealed bay, sand ingress rated

Aerial plate of dense jungle canopy with a small clearing
03

Jungle

Canopy launch from a 2 m clearing

Aerial plate of a dense urban corridor at night
04

Urban

Short standoff, precise terminal arc

Aerial plate of a dark littoral coastline at dawn
05

Maritime

Deck or shoreline launch

Not a swarm.
Few, and very powerful.
Any drone becomes a ballistic platform.

Any airframe
Mid-class quadcopter upward
One rail
Two captive fasteners
Sixty seconds
Carry to ready
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03 Studio

A design first defence studio

Design leads engineering

Form, interface and field behaviour are settled before the tooling is cut, so the system is shaped by how a soldier handles it rather than by what a machine happened to produce.

Decision timeline ahead of the tooling cutA timeline where form, interface and field behaviour are settled before tooling is cut
  • Form
  • Interface
  • Field
  • Then tooling cut

Constraint as language

One diameter, one rail, six modules. The visual and mechanical language repeats, so training time falls and every part reads as part of one family.

One diameter and one rail carrying six modulesOne diameter and one rail carrying six repeating modules
  • One diameter
  • One rail
  • Six modules

Human factors first

Gloved handling, single tool assembly and unambiguous orientation cues. If it can be fitted the wrong way in the dark, the design is not finished.

One orientation index mark, one correct fitA single orientation index mark that only allows one correct fit
  • Wrong fit refused
  • Index mark
  • Seated

A team of special forces operators, guided missile engineers, AI engineers and design engineers. Names to be disclosed soon.

The studio

04 Architecture

Architecture as a design decision

05 End users

Who we supply

  • Defence ministries
  • Armed services
  • State security agencies
  • Prime contractors
  • Test and research establishments

Controlled defence system. Supply to authorised government end users only, subject to export authorisation and a signed end user certificate.

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