Guardian
NDAA-Compliant
Blue UAS Approved*
Guardian Interceptor is a counter-drone interceptor optimized for one-way attack drones, including Shahed-136 and Geran-2, and other Group 3-class unmanned threats.
The Guardian series.
Guardian 1
Fully manual, FPV-based interception and the origin of the Guardian program. There is no radar cueing: the operator flies the entire engagement. Two crew, no fixed infrastructure, nothing to install before it works.
Guardian 2
Radar detection triggers launch automatically. One operator manages semi-autonomous flight and retains engagement authority throughout. Open sensor architecture means acoustic, optical, and radar feeds all cue the same launch decision — higher efficacy, and far less time from detection to launch.
Guardian 3
Full autonomy: a suite of systems that detects, decides, and cues the engagement without an operator flying it, layered together across the full engagement sequence. The operator still authorizes the launch. Each generation adds a method and the layers stack on the one before it. Three seekers are available: radar-based is entering service, with visual and laser-seeking in testing.
Guardian ∞ Swarm
Up to 50 Guardian units under one coordination layer. Every unit fielded today can operate as a swarm node. Against a saturation attack, the coordination layer assigns intercepts across the swarm at once, for less than the cost of a single Patriot intercept.
Cheap drones, expensive defenses.
One-way attack drones are inexpensive, launched in numbers, and often fly with no GPS and no radio link back to jam. Most fielded defenses were built for a slower, more expensive threat, and the gap between detection and a defeated aircraft is where facilities get hit.
How Guardian works.
360° Non-Library Radar
Find-fix-track on long-range strike UAS runs automatically, with no pre-loaded threat profiles. New airframes are detected and classified on first contact, without a library update. The radar works with fielded Army C-UAS sensors.
Modular by Design
Guardian runs on the Matrix architecture, so the airframe is a platform rather than a fixed configuration. Batteries, nose cones, and visual sensors swap out in the field, and modules like Valkyrie C2 and anti-jam bolt on as the threat changes. Operators can open the system up to repair and modify it themselves.
Fire and Forget, from the Cradle
Paired with a Cradle, Guardian becomes fire and forget. The Cradle is the enclosure the interceptor auto-launches out of, and it reports temperature, charge state, and system health straight into the ground control system. Guardians can be emplaced and left in position indefinitely.
Low Cost Per Engagement
Guardian defeats a one-way attack drone for a fraction of what the threat costs to build, and for a fraction of what a missile-based interceptor costs to fire. The exchange ratio favors the defender instead of draining the magazine. Fielded today at TRL 9, in operational theater.
Detect. Decide. Launch. Intercept.
One closed engagement sequence, from first contact to a defeated aircraft.
Radar
360° non-library radar detects and classifies the inbound track automatically, with no pre-loaded threat profiles required.
Decide
The fused sensor picture is classified and an engagement recommendation is cued, with the operator retaining engagement authority.
Cradle
The interceptor sits ready in a sealed, weatherproof launch enclosure, no prepared site and no crew standing by the aircraft.
Launch
Detection triggers launch automatically. One operator can oversee several Cradles at once.
Intercept
Guardian closes at up to 210 mph and defeats the threat at standoff distance, away from the facility rather than overhead.
Employed against fielded threats.
Guardian has been employed operationally against reconnaissance aircraft, loitering munitions, and one-way attack drones in active theater, in both manual and semi-autonomous launch modes, alongside integrated detection radars.
Representative, not exhaustive. Guardian engages fixed-wing and rotary unmanned aircraft across these roles.
†Approximately 89%, across manual and semi-autonomous launch modes, per operating-unit effectiveness assessment. Documentation available on request.
Guardian is manufactured in Charlotte, NC at 500+ units/month demonstrated capacity, on a 30-day standard lead time. NDAA compliant.
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