Three Decades Proven, now reimagined
We don’t just build rotary-wing unmanned systems, we helped define the field. For more than 30 years, we have worked at the leading edge of vertical autonomous flight, engineering real solutions long before autonomy became a thing. Where others saw unsolved physics and impractical engineering, we saw a problem worth solving. We did not wait for the market to mature, instead we built the capability first.
A Lineage of Foresight
This is not a collection of isolated projects. It is a continuous progression, compounding flight experience, engineering refinement, and operational insight across three decades. Every generation is a deliberate evolution of the last.
1997
APID MK3
2002
APID 50
2004
APID 50
2008
NRL Vantage
2015
APID 60
2020
APID One
2025
Muotse M200
This continuity matters. It means today’s systems are built on accumulated knowledge, not rediscovered lessons.
Building What Others Couldn't
We were addressing the hardest realities of rotary-wing autonomy while much of the industry was still conceptualizing it. Stability, endurance, deployability, and mission integration were not yet established requirements. So we developed them through practice, testing, and iteration.
The category did not emerge fully formed. It was engineered forward.
Forged by Experience, Focused on What Comes Next
Our greatest advantage is not a single platform: it is three decades of applied development. The systems we field today reflect thousands of lessons learned through design, flight, failure, and refinement.
That depth allows us to move with confidence, integrate with purpose, and deliver capability that is grounded in experience rather than theory.
Thirty years of rotary-wing development is not a retrospective.
It is the foundation shaping what autonomous vertical flight becomes next.