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Cost exchange
You cannot defend airspace with million-dollar shots against thousand-dollar drones at scale.
Vandaris · V-1 Interceptor
Cheap autonomous drones that ram threats.
Attritable kinetic interceptors guided by onboard vision—built for Group 1–2 UAS cost asymmetry. Bench YOLO + pixel error on Pi 5 today; closed-loop flight next. Simulation and HITL only—not field-deployed.
V-1
Attritable interceptor
~30Hz
Onboard control loop target
Pi 5
YOLO + Δx/Δy running now
Group 1–2
Threat class focus
Design targets and current bench status — not qualified field performance.
The problem
Cheap threats broke the cost-per-kill math.
Group 1–2 UAS cost hundreds to low thousands. Legacy interceptors and C-UAS stacks cost orders of magnitude more per engagement—and were not designed for dense, low-altitude, vision-first threats.
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Terminal guidance
Manual or RF-centric loops fail against fast, low-signature, fiber-optic and GPS-denied profiles.
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Attritable mass
The answer is cheap interceptors with onboard vision—mass-producible, not boutique.
The product
V-1 — vision-guided kinetic intercept.
One stack: onboard perception, closed-loop visual servoing, and an attritable airframe. Sensing (V-400) feeds the kill chain; autonomy closes the terminal loop.
- —GPS-denied IBVS terminal guidance (sim proven)
- —YOLO detection + pixel error on Raspberry Pi 5 (bench)
- —Gen-1 airframe FEA + 5" FPV mount for closed-loop flight
- —V-400 hemispheric radar concept as sensing front-end
How it works
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Detect
Onboard camera + YOLO bbox; optional cue from V-400 / external C2.
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Track
Pixel error (Δx, Δy) from frame center at the edge—no continuous operator stick.
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Guide
IBVS maps error → velocity / body-rate commands into the flight controller.
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Intercept
Attritable kinetic engagement—cost-asymmetric by design.
Proof
Live guidance demo — what runs today.
Browser IBVS digital twin: same control loop from command picture and seeker. On hardware: YOLO + Δx/Δy on Pi 5. Motors not closed yet—that is the next milestone.
- Working today
- Pi 5 + camera · bbox + Δx/Δy
- Sim proof
- IBVS canvas · ~30 Hz design target
- Next
- Error → rates → motors on 5" FPV
TRACKING
ΔX
—px
ΔY
—px
Error
—px
Range
—m
Closing
—m/s
Lock confidence
0%
Simulation only · not field-deployed · Full autonomy stack →
Status
Where we are.
Early-stage. Shipping proof before claiming flight. Target: outdoor / range-ready closed-loop demo before Summer 2027.
DONE
Vision error pipeline
YOLO + bbox + Δx/Δy on Raspberry Pi 5.
DONE
IBVS sim + airframe twin
Live browser demo; Gen-1 FEA and digital twin.
NEXT
Close the motor loop
Map Δx/Δy → rates on the 5" FPV airframe.
GOAL
Range demo
Outdoor closed-loop intercept demonstration.