Falanx

Capabilities

The work, organised.

Falanx is built around an evolving stack of intelligent-systems capabilities. The five disciplines below are how we organise the work. The specialisms beneath them are the work.

Discipline 01 / AI

Artificial Intelligence

Autonomy and intelligence built into the platform from day one — not bolted on after the airframe is done.

  • Autonomy module

    GPS-denied navigation

    Status: Fielded

    An onboard pipeline for sustained navigation when GNSS is unavailable. Visual-inertial odometry, terrain-relative localisation, and learned place recognition fused on the platform's edge compute. Fielded as a retrofit module on operational multirotors.

    Class
    Autonomy module
    Stack
    VIO + terrain-relative + learned localisation
    Next
    Cross-platform deployment

  • Autopilot and autonomy

    AI-driven flight

    Status: Active integration

    Learned policies running alongside classical flight control, on board the aircraft. Active integration across the platform portfolio; next milestone is terminal navigation for interceptors.

    Class
    Autopilot and autonomy
    Stack
    Onboard policy plus flight control
    Next
    Terminal navigation for interceptors

  • Multi-vehicle coordination

    AI swarms

    Status: Fielded

    Coordinated multi-vehicle behaviour shipping with operational multirotors. Decentralised mission logic; resilient to lost links and partial failures. Next: heterogeneous swarms across platform classes.

    Class
    Multi-vehicle coordination
    Stack
    Decentralised mission logic
    Next
    Heterogeneous swarms

Discipline 02 / EMBEDDED

Embedded Systems

Flight controllers, companion boards, and the high-performance firmware that runs on them. End-to-end ownership of what flies.

  • Flight controller

    Custom autopilot boards

    Status: Fielded

    End-to-end ownership of the flight controller: schematic, PCB, and the C/C++ firmware that runs on it. Currently shipping on operational platforms.

    Class
    Flight controller
    Stack
    In-house schematic, PCB, and firmware
    Next
    Cross-platform standardisation

  • Onboard inference and mission compute

    Edge compute and companion boards

    Status: Fielded

    Companion boards that put real compute next to the flight controller — for onboard inference, AI flight, and mission logic that cannot tolerate a round-trip to the ground.

    Class
    Onboard inference and mission compute
    Stack
    NVIDIA Jetson and custom companion hardware
    Next
    Higher-power compute for swarms

Discipline 03 / SOFTWARE

Software

Ground control, mission planning, simulation. The operator surface and the development infrastructure that surrounds every system we ship.

  • Operator UI and telemetry

    Custom Ground Control Stations

    Status: Fielded

    The operator surface that ships with our fielded multirotors. Telemetry, mission control, swarming, and the day-to-day workflow that real operators rely on. Built for the way the work actually gets done.

    Class
    Operator UI and telemetry
    Stack
    Built around the operational workflow we ship
    Next
    Multi-platform unified GCS

  • Route and objective planning

    Mission Planning

    Status: Fielded

    Pre-mission planning that bridges what the operator wants to achieve and what the autonomy stack will actually execute. Integrated end-to-end with our GCS and the onboard autonomy specialisms.

    Class
    Route and objective planning
    Stack
    Integrated with the GCS and onboard autonomy
    Next
    AI-assisted planning

  • Development infrastructure

    Simulation and SITL

    Status: Fielded

    Software-in-the-loop simulation across the full stack — flight controller, autonomy, swarm logic, GCS — so we can validate behaviours before they ever touch real hardware. In-house standard across the engineering team.

    Class
    Development infrastructure
    Stack
    Software-in-the-loop across the stack
    Next
    HITL extension

Discipline 04 / ELECTRONICS

Electronics

Sensors, comms, power. The integrated electronic architecture of an aircraft, designed at the schematic.

  • Airborne electronic architecture

    Sensor and comms integration

    Status: Fielded

    The electronic architecture that ties sensors, comms link, and power into a coherent airborne system. Integrated at the schematic level rather than as an afterthought.

    Class
    Airborne electronic architecture
    Stack
    Sensor fusion, comms link, power architecture
    Next
    Higher-bandwidth comms

Emerging discipline / Aerospace

Aerospace engineering

The next discipline we are growing into. Owning the airframe and propulsion is the gate to the platforms further up the roadmap.

  • Aerospace engineering

    Airframe design

    Status: In development

    The next discipline we are growing into. Owning the airframe means owning aerodynamics, structures, and the trade-offs they impose on the rest of the platform.

    Class
    Aerospace engineering
    Stack
    Aerodynamics and structures
    Next
    First in-house airframe iteration

  • Propulsion

    Engine design

    Status: In development

    Propulsion is the gate to interceptors and rockets at full capability. Active early-stage research; no fielded hardware.

    Class
    Propulsion
    Stack
    Propulsion fundamentals
    Next
    First engine iteration

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