SYS-Δ01
IN DEVELOPMENT
CAIRN
Autonomy core for uncrewed platforms. Edge perception, on-board reasoning, and resilient command across degraded and denied links.
CLASSAutonomy / flight
DOMAINAir · Coastal
LINKDegraded-tolerant
SDR-001//OPERATIONAL//GLASGOW · SCOTLAND
SIDRA
Autonomous aircraft for GPS-denied environments. Sensing, navigation, and mission autonomy — built in Britain.
Engineered in Scotland · UK
LAT55.8642° N
LON04.2518° W
SYSNOMINAL
SCROLL
AUTONOMOUS INTELLIGENCEWILDFIRE EARLY WARNINGDENIED NAVIGATIONPEATLAND MONITORINGTURBINE INSPECTIONSEARCH & RESCUESOLAR FARM PATROLSENSOR FUSIONMANGROVE SURVIVAL SURVEYFLOOD MAPPINGWILDLIFE PROTECTIONAVIATION-GRADEOFFSHORE BVLOSEDGE INFERENCEAUTONOMOUS INTELLIGENCEWILDFIRE EARLY WARNINGDENIED NAVIGATIONPEATLAND MONITORINGTURBINE INSPECTIONSEARCH & RESCUESOLAR FARM PATROLSENSOR FUSIONMANGROVE SURVIVAL SURVEYFLOOD MAPPINGWILDLIFE PROTECTIONAVIATION-GRADEOFFSHORE BVLOSEDGE INFERENCE
SDR-003//CAPABILITY PILLARS
Four domains. One discipline — systems that hold at the edge.
01
AUTONOMOUS INTELLIGENCE
Adaptive systems that perceive, reason, and act without continuous human oversight. From edge inference to fleet coordination.
02
RESILIENT OPERATIONS
Aircraft that keep working when infrastructure fails. GPS-denied navigation, sensor fusion, and dependable communications for remote and disaster operations.
03
CLEAN PROPULSION
Next-generation propulsion for aerospace and maritime. Hybrid-electric and zero-emission drive engineered for endurance.
04
ENVIRONMENTAL INTELLIGENCE
Earth observation, atmospheric modelling, and verifiable monitoring for compliance and climate resilience.
SDR-004//SYSTEMS
A portfolio engineered for the threshold.
SYS-Δ02
CONCEPT
BOREAS
Clean-propulsion architecture for aerospace and maritime. Hybrid-electric and zero-emission drive engineered for endurance over noise.
CLASSPropulsion
CYCLEHybrid · ZE
TARGETEndurance
SYS-Δ03
RESEARCH
VIGIL
Environmental intelligence layer. Earth observation, atmospheric modelling, and verifiable monitoring for compliance and resilience.
CLASSSensing / EO
DATAMulti-spectral
OUTPUTVerifiable
SDR-006//FLEET
One programme. Three airframes.
One autonomy core — CAIRN — flies every SKUA airframe. A buildable quadcopter today, a hybrid-VTOL in development, a long-endurance concept next. Same brain, widening reach.
IN DEVELOPMENT
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DRAG TO ORBIT · LIVE FLIGHT CYCLE
SKUA-1OPERATIONAL
7-INCH SURVEY QUADCOPTER
Buildable today — ~£610 bill of materials, 40-minute hover, flying the CAIRN autonomy stack on commercial hardware.
WHEELBASE295 mm
HOVER40 min
RANGE20 km
AUW1.26 kg
SKUA-2IN DEVELOPMENT
HYBRID VTOL
Bullet fuselage, blended wing, four lift rotors and a pusher — vertical launch anywhere, fixed-wing range once airborne.
SPAN2.8 m
LENGTH1.6 m
LIFT4 × rotor + pusher
ENDURANCE2.5 h target
SKUA-3CONCEPT
LONG-ENDURANCE FIXED-WING
Extended-range sensor platform for wide-area maritime and coastal survey — the endurance end of the programme.
SPAN4.2 m target
ENDURANCE8 h target
RANGE400 km target
PAYLOAD4 kg
SDR-005//HARDWARE
SKUA-1. Built, not rendered.
The exact airframe from the engineering CAD — wheelbase to fastener. Drag to orbit.
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DRAG TO ORBIT · SCROLL TO ZOOM
WHEELBASE295 MM
PROPULSION4 × 2806.5 · 7″ TRI-BLADE
ENERGY6S2P Li-ION · 99.9 WH
FLIGHT COREH743 · ARDUPILOT
ALL-UP MASS1 055 G
THRUST : WEIGHT6.5 : 1
SDR-007//CIVIL OPERATIONS
One platform. Nine mission profiles.
The autonomy stack that watches a forest watches a coastline.
The orbit that refines a wildfire fix inspects a turbine blade. Same aircraft, same estimator, same discipline — different mission.
CIV-01NIGHTJAR
WILDFIRE EARLY WARNING
Scotland · Iberia · Gulf
Dawn and dusk patrol lines over high-risk forestry, reading the ground in thermal. A smouldering ignition is geolocated and reported minutes after it starts — while it is still one crew, not one thousand hectares. 2025 gave the UK its largest recorded wildfire; 2026 gave Scotland a national action plan.
PAYLOADEO/IR thermal core
PROFILEAutonomous patrol lines · dawn/dusk cycles
OUTCOMEValidated: <90 s ignition-to-alert on patrol
CIV-02CORVUS
WILDLIFE PROTECTION
Highlands · European rewilding
High, quiet standoff orbits count herds, log movement corridors, and flag vehicles that should not be there — without a rotor note the animals ever notice.
PAYLOADEO zoom + IR
PROFILEHigh-AGL standoff orbits · track logging
OUTCOMEPopulation surveys · anti-poaching alerts
CIV-03VENTUS
TURBINE INSPECTION
North Sea · Baltic
The same orbit logic that refines a track flies a blade-following scan. Leading-edge erosion and lightning strikes are geotagged to the exact blade station — no rope team, no wasted shutdown window.
PAYLOADEO macro imaging
PROFILEAutonomous blade-follow scan · per-blade pass
OUTCOMEDefects geotagged to blade station
CIV-04RAVN
OFFSHORE ASSETS
North Sea · Gulf offshore
BVLOS transit to platforms and substations, structured survey in salt spray that grounds crewed flights — and a navigation stack that holds on the estimate when GNSS gets ugly.
PAYLOADEO/IR + corrosion imaging
PROFILEBVLOS transit · structured survey pattern
OUTCOMECoverage without vessel days or rope access
CIV-05ASTRUM
SOLAR FARM PATROL
UK · Iberia · Gulf desert solar
Thermal passes over arrays find hot cells, failed strings, and dust soiling before they show up in the yield curve. Drone inspection already runs 75% faster and 45% cheaper than manual — autonomy removes the crew from the loop entirely.
PAYLOADRadiometric thermal + EO
PROFILERow-following grid scan · repeat baselines
OUTCOMEPer-panel fault map · soiling index per row
CIV-06ALBA
PEATLAND MONITORING
Scottish Highlands · Nordics
Repeat survey lines over restored blanket bog measure re-wetting, erosion, and vegetation recovery — the verification layer for peatland carbon programmes, flown in weather that keeps crews off the hill.
PAYLOADMultispectral + EO
PROFILESeasonal repeat lines · change detection
OUTCOMERestoration evidence for carbon verification
CIV-07PEREGRINE
SEARCH & RESCUE SUPPORT
Scotland · Alps · Norway
A thermal sweep of a corrie takes minutes, not a rope team’s afternoon. The navigation stack holds its own estimate in the glens where GNSS gets marginal and crewed air support is weather-limited.
PAYLOADEO/IR thermal core
PROFILESector sweep · waypoint tasking from control
OUTCOMEFaster area clearance · geolocated finds
CIV-08FIACH
FLOOD RESPONSE MAPPING
UK · Rhine basin · Gulf wadis
BVLOS river-corridor transits map extents while the water is still rising — responders get situational awareness in the hours that matter, insurers get ground truth without waiting for the cloud deck.
PAYLOADEO + terrain mapping
PROFILECorridor transit · rapid orthomosaic
OUTCOMESame-day flood extent · asset triage
CIV-09FALKE
COASTAL RESTORATION SURVEY
Gulf · Red Sea coasts
The Gulf is planting mangroves by the hundred million — Abu Dhabi alone targets 100M by 2030, seeded by drone. Someone has to measure what survives. Repeat low-tide surveys score germination and survival, feeding the next seeding pass.
PAYLOADMultispectral + EO
PROFILELow-tide repeat survey · plot scoring
OUTCOMESurvival maps that steer the next season
LIVE//ONE STACK · SELECT A PROFILE
SDR-008//EUROPE FIRE WATCH
VERIFIED · JULY 2026The season is not coming. It is on the board.
July 2026: fires across Spain, Portugal, France, Greece, Italy and Türkiye, driven by the third heatwave in six weeks. Detection still depends on watchtowers, passers-by, and satellites that revisit hours apart. The gap between ignition and alert is where a one-crew fire becomes a thousand-hectare one — and it is exactly the gap NIGHTJAR patrols.
ACTIVE WILDFIRE EVENTS · 06 · REPORTED IGNITION AREAS
14+LIVES LOST · EUROPE · JULY 2026
170 000 HABURNED IN THE EU YTD — MORE THAN 2× THE SEASONAL AVERAGE
10 000+EVACUATED IN THE PYRÉNÉES-ORIENTALES ALONE
777FIREFIGHTERS PREPOSITIONED FROM 14 NATIONS
NIGHTJAR closes the gap: ignition to geolocated alert in under 90 seconds, on autonomous dawn-and-dusk patrol.
Watch it find the fire ↓0
CAPABILITY DOMAINS0
MISSION PROFILES0
ESTABLISHED0%
AVIATION-GRADESDR-010//FIELD LOG
Notes from the programme.
Navigation, autonomy, and flight test — the record as it is written.
LOG-0162026.07MISSION
Wildfire patrol: ignition to alert in under 40 seconds
Three ignitions lit mid-mission during a repeating patrol of the survey area. All three were autonomously detected, confirmed, and orbit-refined — latencies of 0.4, 24, and 40 s from ignition, geolocated to within 0.14 m. Full stack, controller on the estimate throughout.
LOG-0142026.06NAV
Coasting a 20-second GNSS blackout
SKUA-1 held 0.78 m peak error on optical flow, baro, and magnetometer alone through a jammed mid-mission window. Innovation gating rejected the spoof-style jumps outright.
LOG-0112026.05AUTONOMY
Divert-and-orbit with no human in the loop
CAIRN confirmed three ground contacts and autonomously flew a sensor-on orbit around each to tighten geolocation below 0.31 m CEP, then resumed the search.
LOG-0092026.04FLIGHT TEST
Landing on altitude, not velocity
Optical flow drops out below 0.3 m AGL, so the land detector now keys on altitude alone — ending the contact-bounce seen in earlier sorties.
SDR-011//GET IN TOUCH
The threshold is open.
LOCATIONGlasgow · Scotland
REGISTEREDScotland · Est. 2026
The boundary is the beginning.