Intercepting hostile underwater drones
Autonomous underwater interceptors for the protection of subsea cables, offshore energy, ports and naval assets.
Piranha is built for one job: to close on a hostile drone and neutralise it on the last leg of its approach, before it reaches what it came for.
Sabotage in the Baltic has moved underwater
The vehicles doing it are cheap, slow and hard to see. The systems built to stop them cost millions per unit, which means nobody can afford to keep them in the water all the time. Around a cable or a wind farm, protection that only works some of the time is not protection.
Damage to subsea infrastructure runs from millions to billions of kroner per incident. The cost of preventing it has to sit far below that, or prevention does not happen.
Surveillance finds the contact. We close the distance.
Piranha waits with an unmanned surface vessel. When external surveillance reports a target position, the interceptor launches, runs the distance down, confirms what it is looking at, and neutralises it. All of that happens underwater. It does not surface to think, and it reports back through the vessel that launched it.
We target slow underwater and surface drones, and torpedoes.
Detect
Partner surveillance systems hold the watch and hand over a position.
Deploy
The interceptor launches from a surface vessel, which buys the speed advantage over a slow attacker.
Intercept
Tracking, classification and the engagement itself all happen at close range, on the target's final approach.
Designed for interception and nothing else
It has no offensive mission. It does not hunt, it does not patrol, and it does not go looking for anything. It waits for a position from someone else and closes on it.
That constraint is also why we sell to the state rather than to the operators of the infrastructure we protect.
Infrastructure owners cannot legally hold kinetic defensive capability, so we sell into defence procurement.
Concept model. Not a final design configuration.
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