Technology
One core. Every platform.
Autonomy, sensing, and command — the shared foundation that lets an interceptor, a UAV, an FPV overwatch drone, and a ground vehicle behave as one coordinated shield, not a shelf of disconnected tools.
Foundation
A shared autonomy core
We build to a modular open architecture so capability upgrades in software, payloads swap in the field, and our systems plug into allied command-and-control rather than replacing it. Every design decision is measured against three tests: does it reflect how modern threats actually fight, does it protect the people and positions it defends, and can it be produced at scale.
Discuss integrationPixel-Lock AI Guidance
Onboard computer vision acquires and holds the incoming threat through the terminal phase — resilient to GPS spoofing and RF jamming, with human authority retained over every engagement.
Sensor Fusion
Radar, RF, electro-optical and infrared inputs fuse into a single track picture, shared across every platform on the network.
Fiber-Optic Hardline
Unjammable fiber-optic control to 30 km delivers assured command and video in the most contested spectrum on earth.
GPS-Denied Navigation
Ground-referenced beacons and optical positioning keep platforms precise without any reliance on satellite navigation.
Modular Open Architecture
Standard interfaces for payloads, software, and datalinks avoid vendor lock-in and keep platforms upgradeable across their service life.
Combat-Proven Reliability
Engineering validated in active operations and iterated on continuous operator feedback, not just the test range.
Capability Domains
The stack behind the shield.
Every Iron Shield platform draws on the same deep technology base — proven across interceptors, ISR and loitering UAVs, FPV strike, ground robotics, and the command layer that ties them together.
Modern conflict is decided in the gaps a legacy system can't cover: the jammed link, the denied satellite fix, the threat that maneuvers faster than any operator can react. Our engineering is organized around closing those gaps. What began as a set of separate, frontline-proven programs — interceptors, reconnaissance and loitering aircraft, tactical FPV, uncrewed ground vehicles, and a data-fusion command layer — now shares one autonomy, sensing, and communications core. That shared core is why a target lock refined on the interceptor informs the FPV seeker, why the same GPS-denied navigation carries a UAV and a ground vehicle, and why every platform reports into one operating picture. It is a large and fast-growing catalogue; the eight domains below are its foundations.
01 · Autonomy & Guidance
Machine speed. Human authority.
Onboard intelligence that finds, holds, and closes on a target through the terminal phase — while a qualified operator keeps command of every engagement.
AI Pixel-Lock target lock
Computer-vision target detection acquires the threat and holds a hard, pixel-level lock through GPS spoofing, RF jamming, decoys, and hard evasive maneuver — the core of the INT-3 interceptor.
Radar-guided navigation
A radar-guided approach cues the interceptor onto the threat's flight path, then hands off to the vision seeker for the terminal phase.
TG autopilot
Trajectory-guided autopilot flies autonomous search, cruise, and terminal profiles across the interceptor, Magura ISR, and Grey Widow loitering platforms — search, close, and act without continuous piloting.
Narsil auto-targeting
On the Stealth FPV line, the Narsil system captures and tracks a target autonomously — 96% accuracy stationary, 94% moving — holding the lock through signal loss and wind to 20 m/s.
02 · Sensing, Fusion & Tracking
See first. See everything.
Stabilized optics on every platform feed a fused, deduplicated track picture shared across the force.
Stabilized EO / thermal optics
Gyro-stabilized electro-optical and thermal payloads deliver real-time photo and digital video, day or night — from Magura ISR to the Stealth FPV family.
Multi-sensor fusion
Radar, RF, electro-optical, infrared, acoustic, and geospatial inputs fuse into one continuous, correlated track picture — the same picture every operator sees.
Detection, classification & tracking
Automatic detection and classification — including acoustic detection of Shahed-type UAVs on the RAVLYK air-defense node — surface threats the instant they appear and cue the right response.
03 · Assured Links in Contested Spectrum
Command that survives the jam.
Electronic warfare is the first thing a modern adversary brings. Every Iron Shield link is built to keep working when the spectrum turns hostile.
Frequency agility
In-flight band and video-channel switching with a dual control link on separate frequency bands, selected automatically or manually — the link moves before the jammer can find it.
EW resilience
A back-up connection link keeps the loitering and ISR platforms under command through active electronic attack.
Fiber-optic hardline
The Stealth “Fiberon” variants fly an unjammable fiber-optic hardline to 30 km — assured command and full-motion video with zero RF signature.
Optically-stabilized airborne relay
The TBS / ERLS / S-Link quadcopter relay lifts the link above the terrain and holds it — by vision alone, no GPS or compass — extending control to 50 km and beyond.
04 · GPS-Denied Operation
Precise without the satellites.
Satellite navigation is the first capability an adversary denies. Our platforms never depend on it.
Ground-beacon navigation
Magura and the ISR line navigate from ground-based radio beacons, holding position and route with GPS fully denied.
Optical / visual positioning
The airborne relay and ground robotics hold station and heading by optical positioning — no satellite fix, no magnetic compass.
Autonomous mission execution
Pre-planned autonomous missions keep platforms on task when the link is degraded or the operator is heads-down.
05 · Command & Control — the Lurker layer
One screen. The whole force.
Every platform reports into the Lurker Platform — the software and data-fusion layer that turns raw feeds into one shared decision picture.
Common operating picture
A single live map of friendly and hostile tracks, sensor coverage, and platform status — shared across every operator and command node.
Data & sensor fusion
Geospatial, radar, RF, and EO/IR layers fuse and correlate automatically — the software capability the public Lurker Platform demonstrates.
Fleet command & control
Task, monitor, and hand off interceptors, UAVs, and ground vehicles from one console — with human authority over every use of force.
Alerts, playback & analytics
Real-time alerting, full mission recording, and after-action review turn every engagement into feedback for the next.
06 · Ground Autonomy & Modular Architecture
One chassis. Every mission.
The RAVLYK ground robotic complex and SPEXTR K2 turn a single electric drivetrain into a family of field-reconfigurable capabilities.
Modular mission architecture
Quick-change modules reconfigure one platform for logistics, casevac, air-defense detection, firefighting, and force protection in the field.
Electric drive, low signature
An all-electric 6×6 drivetrain gives high payload and towing with a low acoustic and thermal signature — hard to hear, hard to see.
Open, upgradeable interfaces
Standard payload, software, and datalink interfaces avoid vendor lock-in, keep every platform upgradeable across its service life, and stay interoperable with allied C2.
07 · Effects & Payloads
The right effect, matched to the target.
Modular payloads let one airframe carry reconnaissance optics on one sortie and a precise, proportionate effect on the next — the effect is always a choice, under human authority, never a fixed cost of fielding the platform.
Modular payload architecture
Payloads swap in the field across a common weight and interface class. The Grey Widow loitering platform carries a double-action tungsten fragmentation core or a shaped-charge warhead; the Stealth line mounts fragmentation or cumulative modules — each selected to the target, up to a 3 kg class — so a single airframe covers reconnaissance and effect without a redesign.
Precision terminal delivery
AI target-lock and optical stabilization hold the aimpoint through the terminal phase, so an effect is placed exactly where it is authorized — minimizing the miss distance that drives collateral risk.
Proportionate, bounded effects
Controlled-fragmentation and shaped-charge options give a defined, predictable effect against the specific target class — soft, materiel, or armored — rather than an oversized, indiscriminate one.
Safe arming & human authority
An integrated electronic initiation board provides safe transport and remote arming, with activation only over the control channel or on contact — every effect stays under positive, qualified human control from launch to impact.
08 · Survivability, Production & Scale
Built to survive contact — and to be built in numbers.
A capability that can't take a hit and keep working, or can't be produced at scale, doesn't change a battlefield. We engineer for both from the first drawing.
Low acoustic & thermal signature
All-electric ground drivetrains and near-silent electric UAV propulsion cut the acoustic and thermal signature that gets a system detected in the first place — harder to hear, harder to see, harder to target.
Redundancy & graceful degradation
Dual control links on separate bands, a back-up connection channel, and autonomous fallback mean a jammed or lost primary link degrades the mission rather than ending it — the platform keeps flying its task and comes home.
Affordable, attritable mass
Low-cost airframes and quad configurations are built to answer mass with mass — high-volume, swarm-scalable defense that puts the economics on the defender's side, where a cheap interceptor beats an expensive threat.
Manufacturable at scale
Standard interfaces, commercially-derived components, and design-for-production from day one let capability be fielded in the quantities modern threats actually demand — and iterated continuously on operator feedback from active operations, not just the test range.
How it comes together
One force, not a shelf of tools
The point of a shared core is that the whole is worth far more than the parts. A threat picked up by a ground-based acoustic node cues an interceptor. That interceptor's track, an ISR aircraft's imagery, and an FPV team's feed all land in the same operating picture. The relay that keeps one platform connected keeps them all connected. And because every interface is open, a new sensor, a new payload, or an allied command-and-control system plugs in without a redesign.
This is what lets a smaller force punch far above its size: not any single clever system, but many combat-proven systems that see, decide, and act as one — with a qualified human in command of every consequential decision. It is also why the catalogue keeps growing without fragmenting — each new capability inherits the same autonomy, links, navigation, and command layer the rest of the fleet already trusts.
Request the full technical briefingSensor to shooter
Detection on one platform cues the right response on another — automatically, in seconds.
One operating picture
Every feed and track fuses into a single live map shared across the whole force.
Assured in the jam
Frequency-agile, fiber-optic, and GPS-denied by design — the link and the fix survive contact.
Open & upgradeable
New payloads, sensors, and allied C2 integrate without a redesign, across each platform's service life.
Human-authorized
Autonomy compresses time; a qualified human still commands every use of force.
Design Principles
Human-authorized. Interoperable. Manufacturable.
Human Authority
Autonomy accelerates the operator; it does not replace human judgment. Meaningful human control is retained over the use of force.
Interoperability
We build to integrate with allied C2, sensors, and response systems — strengthening a coalition rather than fragmenting it.
Manufacturability
Engineered for scale and affordability from day one, so capability is fielded in the quantities modern threats demand.