Counter-UAS. Two price points, one command system.
Drone defence fails on cost, not on technology. A saturation attack of thirty cheap airframes cannot be answered with thirty expensive missiles. BMDS fields two interceptor classes under one command system: an attritable FPV interceptor for mass, and a turbine interceptor for the fast threat class. The operator decides which one is committed.
The threat has two speeds.
Most attacking drones are slow, cheap and numerous. A growing share is fast, jet driven and expensive to stop. A defence built on one effector either wastes money on the first group or cannot reach the second. Two classes under one command system solve both.
Detect, decide, engage.
The GHOST AI Vision Kit detects and classifies on board the carrier, the ground station builds the picture, and the operator commits an effector. Nothing engages without a human decision, and that rule is enforced in the architecture rather than configured in software.
Systems in this capability
GHOST Thorn attritable interceptor, GHOST I100 turbine interceptor, GHOST Q100 for detection and tracking, GHOST AI Vision Kit, GHOST GCS and GHOST CORE.
- Series readyGHOST ThornAttritable FPV interceptor
- Development programmeGHOST I100Turbine interceptor
- In qualificationGHOST Q100Foldable ISR quadcopter
- In qualificationGHOST AI Vision KitEO/IR payload with onboard AI
- In qualificationGHOST GCSPortable ground control station
- In qualificationGHOST CORECommand software
