SYS-01 // Counter-UAS
Kinetic
Interceptor
Defeat the threat electronic attack can't touch.
Defeat the threat electronic attack can't touch.
The Kinetic Interceptor physically defeats small UAS threats — effective precisely where electronic attack is restricted, denied, or simply ineffective. The autonomous kill chain has been demonstrated end to end against a live airborne target.
It is engineered around a single organizing idea: cost per engagement is a requirement, tracked alongside mass, power, and range — so magazine depth, not budget, sets the limit of the fight.
Stops threats that electronic attack cannot — an autonomous kill chain that closes on a moving target from a moving airframe, day or night.
Unit cost and cost per engagement are engineering constraints, not afterthoughts — the interceptor is built to trade favorably against the threat it defeats.
A flying prototype today, built for rapid fielding through a compliant supply chain assessed against NDAA §848 and the American Security Drone Act.
The proliferation of small drones has created a saturated, unpredictable low-altitude environment — often below traditional radar coverage and beyond established defenses. Jamming assumes a command link the next threat will not have. Directed energy assumes a fixed, power-hungry site. Exquisite interceptors assume a budget the exchange ratio does not allow.
The Kinetic Interceptor is Kestrel's answer to that gap: a strategically engineered effector that defeats autonomous threats kinetically, at a cost that keeps the magazine deep — with the autonomous kill chain already demonstrated against a live airborne target and a clear path to a fielded system.