It has to be an airplane
Strike and counter-UAS are physical problems. Structure, motors, power, a payload, and a path that is still open after the first gun line or jammer. Those things have mass and cost. They show up when a shop builds them.
Droppers and counters
Cheap strike drones solved how to put a munition overhead. Guns, interceptors, and jammers solved how to knock it down. Most of what you can buy now does one of those jobs. The droppers die on the way in. The counters cannot hit a target. The munition has to get through anyway.
One airframe
WASP ONE carries munitions and an anti-drone system. Same aircraft. It is meant to deliver after the counter is up, and to hunt the drones that are doing the same to us. That is the first program.
Made in the United States
If the airframe, the spare parts, and the people who can repair it live somewhere else, you have a purchase order. When the line is under stress you find out what that is worth. We build here so the airplane is here.
Where we are
The pictures on this site are a projected look, the configuration we are designing toward. We are in design. If you need this kind of aircraft, or you want to help build it, write us.
If this is relevant to your work, write us.
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