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Aconite
A recoverable jet-powered threat for realistic air-defense training and test.
THE ADAPTIVE ARSENAL / UTAH, USA
AIR DEFENSE.BUILT INNUMBERS.
Ferrus Defense develops counter-UAS interceptors and the ordnance electronics inside them, and engineers the factory to build them in numbers.
STATUS: DEVELOPMENT STAGELINES: 04UTAH, USA
01 / THE PROBLEMWHY NOW
Jet-powered attack drones are getting faster, cheaper and more numerous. The interceptors that stop them are scarce, costly and slow to replace. The side that runs out of shots first loses the exchange.
- COST EXCHANGE
- A defense that costs far more than the threat cannot be sustained for long.
- MAGAZINE DEPTH
- Defenders need more shots on hand, and a way to replace them quickly.
- PACE OF CHANGE
- Threats change in months. The arsenal has to change on the same clock.
02 / THE ADAPTIVE ARSENALFOUR LINES, ONE SPINE
FOUR MISSIONS.ONE FOUNDATION.
The Adaptive Arsenal is a family of systems engineered on one common spine: shared airframes, avionics, software, interfaces and production methods. What one line proves, the next one inherits.
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Velitor
A high-speed point-defense interceptor for jet-powered threats, scoped to be built and bought in numbers.
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Loitering Strike
A long-endurance strike variant on the shared foundation, with a human authorizing every engagement.
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Robot-Launched Round
A compact canisterized effector for partner ground and maritime robots.
STATUS REFLECTS DEVELOPMENT STAGE. ALL PRODUCT IMAGERY IS CONCEPT RENDERING.
03 / QUANTITY
ONE IS A PROTOTYPE.THOUSANDS ARE A CAPABILITY.
Ferrus is designed around volume: focused scope, shared parts, production tooling from the first drawing, and a line built to change as fast as the threat does.
How we manufacture04 / THE COMMON SPINEMODULAR OPEN SYSTEMS
ONE SPINE.EVERY PRODUCT.
Every Ferrus system is built on a modular open systems architecture. Avionics, software and interfaces are shared across the family, so each new product starts from the parts and data that came before it, not a blank page.
- 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 / MANUFACTURINGTHE BACKBONE
THE FACTORYIS THE PRODUCT.
Manufacturing is the backbone of Ferrus. We design the line with the hardware, not after it, so cost, rate and quality are decided at the drawing instead of discovered on the floor.
DESIGN FOR PRODUCTION
Shared components, fewer unique parts, and tooling designed from the first drawing.
ORDNANCE ELECTRONICS
The subsystem where lethality and safety are decided. A core Ferrus discipline, brought in house as the capability matures.
U.S.-CONTROLLED SUPPLY
Domestic sources prioritized for major subsystems, with second sources planned before scale.
06 / FIELD READINESSFULL LIFECYCLE
DELIVERY ISTHE BEGINNING.
Training, field support and repair are designed into every program from the first hardware. Ferrus will support everything it fields.
TRAIN
Operator and maintainer training built alongside the hardware.
FIELD
Engineers who go where the system is used.
SUPPORT
Spares, product data and a direct line to the team that designed it.
REPAIR
Field and depot repair pathways planned before first delivery.
LEARN
Field data returns to the design, the line and the next lot.
07 / LEADERSHIPFOUNDERS
BUILT BY PEOPLE WHO HAVESHIPPED WEAPONS BEFORE.
Zack Fava
CO-FOUNDER AND CEO
Zack leads Ferrus strategy and manufacturing. He spent fifteen years with the Department of the Navy taking weapons systems, telemetry and avionics from prototype to fleet delivery, and building the production capability behind them.
Levi Pike
CO-FOUNDER AND CTO
Levi leads engineering at Ferrus. He brings nearly a decade of counter-UAS and missile engineering in the defense industry, with a focus on guidance. He owns the Ferrus modular open systems architecture, the common spine that lets every product share the same avionics, software and interfaces.
08 / CAREERS
BUILD THEHARD THINGS.
We are hiring engineers and builders who have carried flight hardware, ordnance electronics, autonomy software or production lines through test and acceptance.
09 / CONTACT
TALK TO US.
Programs, industry partners, suppliers, press, and experienced people who want to build.
Ferrus Defense is a Utah-based company.