FOCUSED
One engagement class, and everything designed for it.
LINE 02 / Velitor
MORE ROUNDS.MORE STAYING POWER.
A high-speed, single-use point-defense interceptor for jet-powered aerial threats.
IN DEVELOPMENT
01 / Mission
SCOPED TO BE BUILT IN NUMBERS.
Velitor is designed around one engagement class: jet-powered one-way attack drones threatening a defended site. It does not try to do everything. That focus is what lets it be produced in numbers and bought in numbers.
Ordnance electronics, the subsystem where lethality and safety are decided, are a core Ferrus discipline and a capability we are building in house. The production line is engineered alongside the airframe from the first drawing.
02 / Design
AFFORDABLE BY DESIGN
Cost is set at the drawing through scope, shared parts and production tooling.
INTEGRATES
Planned to work with existing site sensors and fire control instead of requiring a new stack.
SUPPORTED
Training, field support and repair planned with the first hardware.
03 / Program facts
- ROLE
- Point-defense interceptor
- THREAT CLASS
- Jet-powered one-way attack drones
- USE
- Single-use
- INTEGRATION
- Existing site sensors and fire control (planned)
- ORDNANCE ELECTRONICS
- Core Ferrus discipline
- STATUS
- In development
04 / Platform
Velitor is built on the Ferrus common spine: shared avionics, software, interfaces and production.
- AIRFRAMES AND TOOLING: Common structures, and the tooling to make them at rate.
- AVIONICS: One family of flight and mission electronics across every product.
- FLIGHT AND MISSION SOFTWARE: One software base, built to improve with every flight of every product.
- COMMON CANISTER INTERFACE: A standard mechanical and electrical interface for launch and integration.
- UNIFIED TEST-DATA LOOP: Every test feeds one dataset that every product line learns from.
- PRODUCTION AND SUPPORT: One line, one quality system, one support model.
05 / Status
IN DEVELOPMENT
- CONCEPT
- DESIGN
- BUILD
- FLIGHT TEST
- QUALIFICATION
- PRODUCTION