A drone is launched at a point on a map.

By the time it arrives, the target has moved.

Our seeker searches the ground, finds it, and *locks* on.

No GPS. No radio. Nothing for an enemy to jam or trace.

It finishes the task on its own.

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  1. A drone is launched at a point on a map.
  2. By the time it arrives, the target has moved.
  3. Our seeker searches the ground, finds it, and locks on.
  4. No GPS. No radio. Nothing for an enemy to jam or trace.
  5. It finishes the task on its own.
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Passive seekers and onboard autonomy for uncrewed systems

A United Kingdom defence company specialising in passive terminal guidance. Our seekers and autonomy software are designed, engineered and manufactured in the UK, on a UK supply chain, for the British Armed Forces and allied nations.

Mass has changed the arithmetic

An attacking drone can cost a few thousand pounds. The interceptor fired to stop it can cost hundreds of thousands, sometimes millions. An adversary willing to launch in numbers can exhaust a nation's air defences long before it runs out of airframes. The defender loses the exchange even when it wins the engagement.

The environment those engagements happen in has also closed down. Satellite navigation is jammed and spoofed as a matter of routine. Data links are contested, and every transmission is a beacon that can be detected, located and returned to sender. A system that depends on a signal from somewhere else is a system that stops working at precisely the moment it is needed.

The cost exchange: forty attacking drones against one interceptor Forty small quadcopter outlines fill a dense grid on the left, all drawn dim and all the same size, labelled “a few thousand pounds each”. A hairline divider separates them from the right-hand side, which holds a single interceptor missile drawn in amber at roughly six times the height of one drone, labelled “hundreds of thousands, sometimes millions”. a few thousandpounds each hundreds of thousands,sometimes millions The cost exchange: forty attacking drones against one interceptor a few thousandpounds each hundreds of thousands,sometimes millions

What we build

Passive electro-optical seekers

The seeker searches the ground, finds the target, and emits nothing.

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Guidance computed on board

Detection, classification and tracking run on the airframe, not on a ground station.

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Seekers for interceptors

Terminal guidance for interceptors sent against air targets.

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Operating in denied environments

Guidance continues when satellite navigation is jammed and the data link is gone.

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When satellite navigation goes, ours keeps going.

  • No satellite fix required at any stage of flight.
  • No data link, no ground station, no network.
A satellite's signal to the ground breaks up; the aircraft below keeps flying its route. Line drawing. A satellite turns slowly above a ground line, its signal drawn as a cone reaching the ground. Partway through, the cone shatters into fragments and fades and the satellite dims. The aircraft crossing below carries on unchanged: its route, dashed until now, is redrawn as a solid amber line, a track box closes around the aircraft, and the words "still on course" appear. still on course

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