Attritable 15" missiles designed for modern drone swarm warfare
We’re building America’s Golden Dome for drones
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We build counter-UAS capabilities for the Department of Defense and Homeland Security. Our mission is to enable mass production of micro-guided missiles — affordable, scalable, and ready for the field. Our portable missile battery is designed for combined arm use, offering both mounted, dismounted, and low-collateral variants.
A new challenge
Drones are reshaping the modern battlefield — fast, cheap, and highly effective.
Traditional systems struggle to keep up.
70-80%
of battlefield fatalities come from drone strikes
$250,000+
kinetic solutions are used to counteract $500 drones
$500 Ukrainian drones decimate $100M Russian strategic bombers
Solution
We are building the best in class affordable and guided micro-missile pods for countering drones.
Different launching mechanisms
UAVs, ground vehicles, boats and more
Targets Group 1/2 Drones
Disables light, fast, and low-flying UAS
1,000+
meter range
25x cheaper
than the current solutions. Less than $10,000 per missile
15
micro-missiles per pod
Our progress
May 2025
+60 end-user interviews across joint forces
June 2025
Built 2 spin-stabilized rockets, Mk-I/II guided missile
June 2025
Won Y Combinator’s S25 batch preview day
July 2025
Testing of Mk-III surface to air interceptor
October 2025
Moved team to Austin, TX
December 2025
Leased 17,500 sqft Buda Headquarters
January 2026
Achieved fully guided flight for direct hit to kill
February 2026
Expanded to 10 full-time team members
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Footage from testing
Our team
Dr. Jason Cornelius
Co-founder & CEO
Led aerospace vehicle design for NASA's Titan Dragonfly mission and pioneered advanced machine learning-based design optimization methods for future Mars helicopters. Teaches aerospace engineering at Stanford University. Created an international annual drone competition.
Steve Messinger
Co-founder & CTO
Swarm robotics expert with a focus on guidance, navigation, and control of autonomous systems. Developed technologies for Boeing that enabled autonomous aircraft landings with one or more pilots incapacitated. Built multi-agent collaborative behaviors for unmanned systems.
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N49°50'30.5484"
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2025-03-30
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