Danger close
Launch from a protected or concealed position against threats close to friendly personnel. Operator-defined boundaries and friend-or-foe identification shape the mission while the launch team remains under cover.
Basilard
Transitioning VTOL autonomous aircraft
From danger-close missions at the tactical edge to longer-range force projection, Basilard is built to move faster than the threat.
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Vertical launch.
Forward-flight speed.
Basilard rises from a concealed position, transitions into aerodynamic forward flight and cruises at more than 450 km/h. It combines the deployment freedom of VTOL with the speed and manoeuvrability required to compress an adversary's response window.
- Cruise speed
- 450+ km/h
- Launch profile
- Vertical take-off
- Flight profile
- Transitioning VTOL
- Roles
- Air defence / Ground attack
- Mission execution
- Autonomous within defined intent
- Datalink
- Not required
Built around the mission.
One airframe. Fourfold radial control. A sensor architecture integrated from the first line.
Force projection
Send Basilard farther into contested space to search, identify and prosecute authorised threats without demanding continuous control from the launch position.
Concealed launch.
Immediate effect.
When armour advances on a defended trench line, personnel can launch Basilard from cover and remain in relative safety.
AR-01 searches the assigned area, identifies the threat and applies mission constraints before Basilard executes a high-G autonomous intercept—compressing the counter-response window.
No link to break.
Perception, target identification, navigation and flight autonomy run onboard. Basilard needs no wireless or wired uplink to complete an authorised mission in communications-denied environments.
One platform. Multiple roles.
Counter-UAS
Rapid autonomous response against unmanned aerial threats across the defended area.
Rotary-wing defence
High-speed interception and evasive manoeuvre against helicopter-class threats.
Anti-armour
Mission-configurable effects against heavily armoured vehicles.
Ground effect
Precision effect against entrenched and protected positions.
Awareness is part of the airframe.
Basilard carries AR-01 onboard, fusing its active sensor set into one real-time picture for acquisition, identification, navigation and autonomous flight.
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