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When ISR Fails, Lives & Assets Are Lost
For the moments when you don’t know the where or the when — and life is on the line.
The missions that matter most are the ones you cannot predict — a threat hidden across a vast area, a person lost in difficult terrain, a vessel gone dark. The platform is built to find small things across large areas, in real time, so teams can act on the where and the when.
- Unknown unknownsYou cannot cue a sensor to a threat you have not found yet. Wide-area capture searches everything at detection resolution — so what you did not know to look for still surfaces.
- Time criticalWhen the answer has to be now, processing onboard removes the round trip to the ground. Detections are confirmed in the moment, not minutes later.
- Life is on the lineSearch and rescue, force protection, threat detection — missions where a missed detection carries a human cost. Coverage without compromise is the point.
Platform integration
The same sensor integrates across every class of unmanned platform, and several can be combined on one aircraft. Platform-agnostic by design →
Mission 01
Frontline Reconnaissance
Holding the whole scene and the fine detail at the same time, so nothing outside the zoom window is missed.
Reconnaissance depends on seeing the whole scene and the fine detail at the same time. Zoom sensors force a choice — zoom in and lose the surrounding picture, or zoom out and lose the target. A wide-area 10K sensor holds the entire field of view at detection resolution, so one pass covers ground that would otherwise take many, with no zoom-switching and no peripheral blindness. Detections are classified and tracked onboard, so a contact is confirmed and held as the aircraft moves — and delivered as coordinates, not raw video.
What changes
- No peripheral blindnessThe full field of view is held at detection resolution — there is no window to point and nothing outside it.
- Confirmed as the aircraft movesDetections are classified and tracked onboard, so a contact is held rather than re-acquired.
- No zoom-switchingWide context and fine detail come from the same frame, not from two sensor states.
- A smaller RF footprintOnly findings leave the aircraft, so emission scales with what is found rather than with time airborne.
Use cases
- Tactical reconWide-area situational awareness at detection resolution.
- Force protection and overwatchPersistent watch over a position and its approaches, with contacts held as the aircraft moves.
- Dismount and vehicle detectionPeople and vehicles found at detection resolution in the same frame as the surrounding context.
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Mission 02
Threat Detection & UXO
Finding small, deliberately concealed objects across ground that has to be crossed.
Route and infrastructure protection means finding small, deliberately hidden objects — disturbed earth over a buried mine, a device at the roadside, a breach in a perimeter — across a long corridor, before anyone reaches them. Wide-area capture at fine ground resolution lets a single flight scan the route ahead and hold every candidate across frames, geolocating each so it can be avoided or cleared. The same approach extends to pipelines, borders and critical sites, where the task is spotting the one thing that has changed across a large area.
What changes
- A broad corridor, scanned in real timeThe sensor holds 2–3 mm ground resolution at speed, so a wide corridor is scanned in a single pass rather than swept in overlapping strips.
- Every candidate held across framesA contact seen once is tracked and geolocated, so it can be avoided or tasked for clearance.
- Coordinates, not footageFindings leave the aircraft as geolocated markers — nothing raw needs the downlink.
Use cases
- Mine detectionClose-in scanning for small objects at fine ground resolution.
- Route threat detectionScanning the corridor ahead of a column before it is reached.
- Post-conflict mine clearanceSurveying contaminated ground so clearance teams can be tasked to located candidates.
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Mission 03
Border & Maritime
Watching large areas of water and open boundary where the object of interest is small, moving, and not announcing itself.
Vessels engaged in illicit activity routinely switch off their AIS transponder to go dark. Finding them means watching a vast stretch of open water optically and cross-checking what is seen against what is transmitting. Wide-area capture detects vessels across the scene; fusing those detections with the AIS picture flags the ships that appear optically but broadcast nothing. Because only findings are sent — never raw imagery — a single high-altitude platform can hold an area no patrol aircraft could cover, in real time.
What changes
- Area no patrol pattern can holdOne high-altitude platform watches a stretch of water that would otherwise need repeated sorties.
- The silent contact is the signalOptical detections fused with AIS surface exactly the vessels transmitting nothing.
- Real time over a thin linkOnly findings are transmitted, so the picture arrives live over the bandwidth available at altitude.
Use cases
- Dark-ship monitoringDetecting vessels that appear optically but broadcast no AIS.
- Ship trackingWide-area detection and tracking of vessels across open water.
- Border securityPersistent watch over long boundaries and approaches.
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Mission 04
Search & Rescue
Covering the search area faster than the search area grows.
A search area grows with every hour a person is missing, while a narrow-field sensor covers it in strips — so the area expands faster than the sweep closes it. A person is a small, low-contrast object against broken ground, which means the search has to be flown at detection resolution across the whole area, not just along the strip currently in frame. Wide-area capture holds the entire field of view at that resolution in a single pass, and the aircraft returns positions rather than footage a crew has to watch back.
What changes
- The whole search area, not a strip of itOne frame holds the full field of view at detection resolution, so ground is covered in a pass rather than swept back and forth.
- A coordinate, not a video feedOnly findings leave the aircraft, so a position reaches the team over whatever link survives — and arrives as Cursor-on-Target, on the map they are already working from.
- Geometry that survives the aircraft movingThe global shutter exposes every pixel at once, so frames stay geometrically consistent from a moving platform and a contact can be geolocated, not merely seen.
Use cases
- Wide-area search for missing personsThe search area held at detection resolution rather than swept in strips.
- Maritime search and rescuePeople and small craft against open water, where the search area drifts with time.
- Disaster response overviewA wide-area picture of an affected area when ground access is cut.
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Working with
Partners & Operators
The platform flies on aircraft built and operated by our partners across defence, security and emergency response. A single partner may operate across several of the missions above.
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Your Mission Next
Emergency rescue, border security, infrastructure — if the problem is small things in large areas, the platform applies. Bring the mission profile.