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Detection at 40 km
Ground-based radar sees the track early. The shot exists. Current interceptors cannot take it.
Prydwen // Air_superiority
Air Superiority
UAV Systems
Overwatch that ends threats.
Reusable interceptors that hold in staging airspace and kill at detection range — not over the city.
- Platform
- Merlin
- Inference
- Oberon NPV
- Class
- Reusable interceptor
- Cost
- $50–60k
The intercept problem
Detection outranges the effector.
One-way attack drones rewrote the geometry of air defense. You can see the track. You cannot reach it in time.
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Effectors stop at ~15 km
One-way interceptors work. They cannot leave the inner ring. Operators wait while the target closes.
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The late window
By the time a one-way can reach, the threat is inside the envelope. You are no longer defending staging airspace. You are defending the city.
Merlin · Oberon
The array is the product. Reuse is how you carry it.
Merlin tracks, engages, and moves to the next target. Because it comes home, it can carry radar, thermal, and a multi-camera array — not a disposable warhead with a camera taped on.
Wingspan
~3 m
Speed
375 km/h
Range
450 km
Endurance
2 hrs
Thrust
~1000 N
Weight
100–200 lb
Effector
Modular
Unit cost
$50–60k
Target aircraft specs · modular effector
Engage from staging airspace
Kill at detection range, not over the city.
Staging airspace
When the track appears, Merlin is already out — or can get out — to existing holding airspace. Kill at detection range, not over the city.
The array
Reuse is not the product. Reuse is why Merlin carries radar, thermal, and multi-camera. That array is the track, and the C2 network.
NPV
Onboard inference. Target and obstacle tracks leave the aircraft as compact packets with real telemetry. No short-range video link to jam. That is what makes the far shot possible.
Oberon NPV
Onboard inference. Compact packets. Real telemetry.
NPV turns the sensor array into long-range tracks instead of a short-range, jammable video pipe. The far shot is a software problem as much as an airframe problem.
Investors
Capital for the far shot.
Qualified investors and strategic capital. Merlin is a reusable interceptor built against Shahed/Geran-class one-way attack drones — for the fight that is already happening.
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