Guideline // C-UAS at squad level
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Autonomous interceptor · Force protection

Drone defence. Carried, not called in.

Autonomous interceptors under 900 g, hand-launched in seconds, that defeat hostile drones before they strike.

Protected zoneArmed
Hostile tracks000
Defeated000
GNSS / datalinkNot required
// Operating concept

What a squad-level C-UAS has to be

Five characteristics define the system. Each one answers a constraint of the dismounted fight: weight, jamming, cost, safety and control.

Weight

Soldier-carried

Under 900 g. Fits a pouch, hand-launched, no tools. Every squad member can carry one.

Jamming

Autonomous

Onboard AI detects, classifies and intercepts. No ground station, no GNSS, no datalink. Works under jamming.

Cost

Cost-matched

Costs what the threat costs. A defence that is priced like a missile loses the exchange before the first launch.

Safety

Fail-safe

Lost target, lost link or lost power all end the same way: the interceptor goes safe and returns or lands.

Control

Human selects, machine engages

The soldier selects the target and arms the zone. The interceptor flies the engagement on its own. Veto at any time, with one hand, under fire.

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// Threat-matched · key figures

Matched in mass, speed and cost

A counter-measure wins the exchange only if it meets the threat at its own scale: the same weight class, the same cost bracket, the same tempo. Four figures define that match.

<900gTake-off mass

The same weight class as the sUAS threats it meets: FPV, quadcopter, loitering munition. Carried in a pouch, launched by hand, no launcher and no vehicle.

<5sReady to launch

The threat arrives with seconds of warning, so the response has to be measured in seconds too. From pouch to airborne before the threat is in sight.

up to500mIntercept radius

Matched to the distance at which a dismounted squad first detects an sUAS. Wide enough to cover the squad on the move.

≥1.3×Speed vs. threat

Detection and launch cost seconds, and the threat is rarely head-on. A 30 % margin lets the interceptor close on a late-detected target from any aspect, including a stern chase, without the mass and power of a faster airframe.

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// Contact

Put a shield over your squads

The machine decides how to intercept. The soldier decides what is protected.

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