Operator hardwareRuggedised handheld or vehicle rack
Network requirementNone — fully offline capable
ASSURANCEG.02
Component originNATO-member states
FirmwareSigned, verified at boot
Key storageHardware security module
Bill of materialsDisclosed to customer
Field repairLine-replaceable modules
Export postureITAR-free by design
02Engineering pillars
◇SHEET 02/03
+T.01
01
HEIMDAL
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A magazine measured in watts
Directed energy removes the round from the engagement.
Every kinetic counter-drone system loses the exchange on cost and on logistics: the interceptor is more expensive than the target, and there are only so many of them on the vehicle. A laser changes the accounting. The turret expends electricity, so depth of magazine becomes a question of power generation rather than resupply — and nothing falls back down onto whatever is underneath the engagement.
FiguresC1
EffectorDirected energy, no munition
MagazineBounded by power
Cost per engagementElectrical power only
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02
HUGINN
02 / 04
Folding the aircraft inside its own diameter
A coaxial stack that stows as a sealed tube.
A conventional quadcopter is a flat X, and that shape is what stops it fitting through a doorway at speed, riding on a belt, or clearing a stairwell without catching an arm on something. Folding a coaxial rotor stack inside the body diameter turns the aircraft into a cylinder when it is not flying. What the operator carries has no protrusions; what unfolds has no arms to snag.
FiguresC2
ConfigurationCoaxial, folding
Stowed formSealed cylinder
DeploymentSingle motion, no tools
+T.03
03
VALNAR
03 / 04
A control link that does not surrender
Unjammable command and video.
An FPV airframe is worth precisely as much as its link. Contested electromagnetic conditions are not an unlikely edge case — they are the exact circumstances the aircraft was bought for, and they are when most airframes become ballast. Holding the link is what converts endurance and payload into something a unit can actually rely on.
FiguresC3
Control linkUnjammable
VideoFPV, direct operator control
Link lossFail-safe, never autonomous effect
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04
ALL SYSTEMS
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Human authority, structurally
No effect without a positive human action.
Target selection and engagement require a human decision, and loss of link commands abort rather than autonomous attack. This is enforced in the control software and recorded in an immutable log — it is not a configuration flag that a deployment can quietly turn off. Automation handles flying, stabilising and tracking; the decision to act stays with a person.
Payload bays and mounting interfaces are documented. Fit a third-party sensor to VALNAR's hardpoint, configure HUGINN's payload section yourself, or cue HEIMDAL from the air picture you already operate. A capability you cannot modify is a capability you do not really own.