Fiber-optic FPVs fly on a spool of glass. Autonomous drones fly on their own terminal guidance, with the radio off. Electronic warfare does not stop either one, and both are arriving in numbers.
01 Threat
Fiber-optic FPVs fly on a spool of glass. Autonomous drones fly on their own terminal guidance, with the radio off. Electronic warfare does not stop either one, and both are arriving in numbers.
02 SASCUATCH
SASCUATCH is a handheld, gimbal-stabilized kinetic system for small drones: a semi-autonomous robotic sidearm. The operator points it toward the drone. It finds the drone, holds the aim through his footsteps and breathing, and fires when the solution closes.
Built for the man on foot, who today has a rifle and a few seconds.
03 Detect
A small drone is heard long before it is seen. Acoustic detection cues the operator to a bearing while the aircraft is still a speck. A few seconds of warning becomes enough time to bring the system up and let it acquire.
04 Stabilize
A direct-drive gimbal runs closed-loop on gyro feedback. It rejects hand tremor, gait, and footstrike while the operator moves. Vehicle and tripod mounts never had to solve this problem. A dismounted system does.
05 Track
Onboard computer vision acquires the target, tracks it frame to frame, and predicts the intercept. The operator points. The machine aims. His attention stays on the fight.
06 Swarms
One shot does not answer a swarm. The system re-acquires after every round and works down a queue of targets. Commercial ammunition makes volume affordable in a way interceptors are not.
07 Signature
Nothing to detect, nothing to jam, and no need for the drone to have a link to break. The effect is kinetic. The ammunition costs a few dollars a shot, not thousands.
08 Status