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PK-1 »PICKET« · PASSIVE-SEEKER INTERCEPTOR · IN DEVELOPMENT

Fiber-optic drones are immune to electronic warfare. We built a kinetic answer.

PICKET is a shoulder-launched, passive-seeker kinetic interceptor for fiber-optic FPV drones — the drones jamming can't stop.

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PASSIVE EO/IR SEEKERKINETIC INTERCEPTVALIDATED IN SIMULATION & ON THE BENCHFOUNDER-LED · ISRAEL
01/ THE THREAT

The drones jamming can't stop.

The FPV attack drone turned a few hundred dollars of hobby hardware into a precision-strike weapon. The defense that emerged is electronic warfare: jam the radio control link, and the aircraft drops.

The fiber-optic variant removes the link. Guidance travels down a physical fiber unspooled in flight — nothing radiates, so nothing can be jammed or spoofed, and there is no signal for RF sensors to find. Against the primary counter-drone defense fielded today, it is simply immune.

OPERATOROPTICAL FIBER · CONTROL NEVER ENTERS THE RF SPECTRUMFIBER-OPTIC FPV
LINK

A hair-thin optical fiber unspools behind the aircraft, kilometers long. Control never touches the radio spectrum.

EW RESPONSE

None. Jamming and spoofing do not apply, and there is no RF signature to detect or direction-find.

COST

Commodity FPV components — cheap enough to spend freely against anything worth protecting.

An EW-immune threat needs a physical answer: see it optically, stop it kinetically.

PASSIVE SEEKER · ACQUIRING
AZ —·—°
RNG — m
EO/IR · PASSIVE
NO EMISSIONS
02/ THE APPROACH

PICKET — designation PK-1.

A man-portable, shoulder-launched interceptor. At its core is a passive electro-optical / infrared seeker that detects, locks, and tracks the target entirely on-board — no operator link, no illumination — and guides the airframe to a kinetic intercept.

The seeker is the hard part — and it is our IP.

Passive means zero emissions: nothing for the target to detect, nothing for anyone to jam. The same immunity the fiber gives them, optics give us.

SEEKER

Passive EO/IR. All detection, lock, and track processing runs on-board the round.

EFFECT

Kinetic intercept. Block I: direct ram. Block II: proximity fragmentation — roadmap.

PLATFORM

Shoulder-launched, man-portable, single operator. The operator's job ends at launch.

STATUS — SEEKER IN DEVELOPMENT · VALIDATED IN SIMULATION AND ON THE BENCH
03/ THE ENGAGEMENT

One engagement, end to end.

Detect, lock, launch, guide, intercept — the full PICKET sequence against the drone jamming can't stop, drawn as a concept schematic in the seeker's own language. Not simulation output, not test footage.

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FIBER-OPTIC FPV · NO RF LINK TO JAM
BEAT 01 / 06
AZ —·—°
EL —·—°
TRK —
EO/IR · PASSIVE — NO EMISSIONS
SCHEMATIC · CONCEPT — NOT TEST FOOTAGE
04/ TECHNOLOGY

Evidence over adjectives.

What exists today, measured — on the bench and in simulation.

SKR·01VISION

Sees a drone, not a cloud.

The seeker's detection network discriminates a small UAS from clouds, sun halo, and open-sky clutter — the false-alarm sources that defeat naive motion tracking. Trained and evaluated on real sky footage.

Six sky frames from the seeker with drone detections boxed and confidence scores of 0.58 to 0.68, against sun halo and cloud clutter
SEEKER DETECTIONS + CONFIDENCE, AGAINST SUN HALO AND CLOUD CLUTTER. BENCH FOOTAGE — IN DEVELOPMENT.
SKR·02TRACK

Detect. Lock. Hold.

Detection cues an on-board tracker that locks the target and holds it through brief dropouts — occlusion, glare, frame loss — re-acquiring without operator input.

DETECT → LOCK → TRACK
HOLDS THROUGH BRIEF DROPOUTS
GDN·03GUIDANCE

Validated in simulation.

Guidance laws run against evasive, weaving targets in a Monte-Carlo intercept simulator — hundreds of runs per configuration, before any hardware flies.

Simulation chart: probability of kill versus effective lethal radius for a weaving threat over 500 runs, with Block I ram and Block II fragmentation thresholds marked
PK VS TERMINAL PRECISION — WEAVE THREAT, N=500 MONTE-CARLO RUNS. SIMULATION.
CMP·04COMPUTE

Low-cost edge compute.

The full detect–lock–track pipeline runs in real time on commodity edge hardware. An interceptor only makes sense if it costs a fraction of what it protects.

COMMODITY EDGE HARDWARE
REAL-TIME, ON-BOARD
05/ ROADMAP

The approach ladder.

Four gates, in order. Each stage retires one class of risk before the next begins.

01BENCH SEEKERCURRENT

Detect–lock–track running against recorded and live sky footage on bench hardware.

02CAPTIVE-CARRY

Seeker flown on a surrogate airframe against real targets — closure geometry, vibration, optics.

03LAUNCH DYNAMICS

Unguided test launches — airframe, propulsion, and safe-separation work.

04AUTONOMOUS INTERCEPT

Closed-loop guided intercept of a target drone. The proof.

06/ ABOUT

Founder-led. Seeker-first.

Cobalt Dynamics is an early-stage Israeli defense-technology company, founded and led by an Israeli Air Force veteran. We are building the seeker first: it is the hardest part of the problem and the heart of the system. Everything else on this page is staged behind it, in the order the risk deserves.