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
$100,000+
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
400+
meter range
10x 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
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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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