SDR-016//THE FLEET · OPERATIONAL
NIGHTJAR
Buildable today — ~£610 bill of materials, 40-minute hover, flying the CUSTOS autonomy stack on commercial hardware.
AIRFRAME SPEC
CLASS7-INCH SURVEY QUADCOPTER
STATUSOPERATIONAL
MISSIONWILDFIRE EARLY WARNING
WHEELBASE295 mm
HOVER40 min
RANGE20 km
AUW1.26 kg
THE MISSION · CIV-01
WILDFIRE EARLY WARNING
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.
PAYLOAD
EO/IR thermal core + ASTRUM SPAD array — calibration pipeline tuned for low-light edge inference across the dawn/dusk ignition window
PROFILE
Autonomous patrol lines · dawn/dusk cycles
OUTCOME
Validated: <90 s ignition-to-alert on patrol
REGIONS
Scotland · Iberia · Gulf