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Engineering deep-dives, field notes from deployments, and the occasional company announcement. Filed by the people who are shipping it.
EngineeringClosing the perception loop in under 40 milliseconds.
What it takes to collapse sense, classify, decide and actuate into a single tick on commodity silicon — and why most platforms still cannot.
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FieldCounter-UAS engagement timelines are collapsing.
Detection, classification, intercept assignment and terminal engagement now close in single-digit seconds. What that does to the operator's role.
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EngineeringWhy modular payload bays are eating the airframe.
EO/IR, SAR, EW, kinetic — the airframes that win are the ones that can change role between sorties without re-flashing the autopilot.
Read →DoctrineThe economics of attritable mass.
Per-unit cost is the single most important variable in the next decade of air defense. The procurement system is not yet built to price it.
Read →EngineeringWhy open avionics buses keep winning.
Proprietary stacks lose to ecosystems on a long enough horizon. The trade-offs — and the places where open is the wrong answer.
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