Unified Mechanics connects field sensing, radar, command and control, protected launch, and autonomous interception under one technical baseline.
Looping mission view
A conceptual public visualization of the mission sequence. Configuration geometry and performance detail remain controlled.
HEED
Detect and develop the track
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HEED
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MOUND
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COMPOSITION
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TANKARD
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THORNWALL
Mission sequence
Radar
The sensing and track-generation layer.
HEED detects and tracks airborne threats, then supplies actionable track data to COMPOSITION. It is designed to operate as a standalone radar or as the sensing package within a larger Unified Mechanics deployment.
Sensor Node
The field layer that hosts, connects, and processes.
MOUND is a deployable node for power, communications, edge compute, enclosure, mast, and sensor interfaces. It can host HEED, another sensor package, or operate as a communications and processing node within a distributed network.
Command + Control
The mission coordination and control layer.
COMPOSITION turns sensor data into a common operating picture, connects operators with distributed systems, and coordinates the path from track formation to interceptor launch and mission oversight.
Protected Launch
A distributed canister built to protect, position, and launch.
TANKARD provides a field-deployable launch architecture for protected interceptors. The current inert demonstrator is validating mechanical packaging, avionics integration, deployment, serviceability, and system interfaces.
Autonomous Interceptor
The autonomous UAV that completes the mission.
THORNWALL is an autonomous counter-UAS interceptor designed to receive the mission, launch from TANKARD, and close the terminal engagement through onboard guidance and a proximity blast-fragmentation defeat mechanism.
The engineering program
Hardware, software, and operational integration advance against the same requirements and interface definitions. Problems are found at the layer where they begin, not after they migrate into a full-system test.
Current beachhead
The demonstrator is the first physical integration point for mechanical packaging, avionics, deployment, serviceability, and the interfaces that connect the broader system.
Packaging, structures, deployment mechanisms, serviceability, and physical integration are designed around field use from the beginning.
Power, communications, sensing, embedded compute, and vehicle electronics mature against the same interface assumptions.
Data fusion, operator workflows, guidance, command and control, and autonomy are built as a connected software mission layer.
Bench, subsystem, integration, and field testing retire risk before the complete architecture is exercised as a mission system.
Development cycle
Define what the mission demands and what the operator must be able to trust.
Control the physical, electrical, data, safety, and command boundaries between systems.
Build the smallest physical proof that can expose incorrect assumptions.
Exercise the handoffs where otherwise capable components become one architecture.
Measure performance, reliability, failure behavior, and operational utility.
Architecture rules
Each system has a defined role and can create value as a standalone product or integration layer.
Power, data, timing, command authority, safety, and maintenance boundaries are engineered instead of inherited.
The complete mission arc is governed by one architecture and one team responsible for how the handoffs perform.
Discuss the architecture through a controlled briefing.
