Umbra · Universal Launch Platform
Turn almost any host
into a launcher
One open launch node. Integrate any effector onto any platform — ground, surface or subsea — and launch where GNSS and jamming have taken everything else down. Strike and Counter-UAS, from one core.
The node
An enabler, not a new weapon system
The Umbra bolts onto a host already in service and turns it into a launcher — a multi-cell magazine that holds folding drones packed dense and fires them in salvo. Any effector, any platform, integrated as a configuration rather than a development programme.
Its job is the part still missing between the cheap effector and the host: getting that effector off the platform accurately, the instant the enemy is jamming and satellite navigation is gone.
One core · Two missions
Strike and Counter-UAS, from the same box
Mission · Counter-UAS
Counter-UAS
Turn any host into a counter-drone shooter — cued by any sensor or C2, flying a cheap interceptor onto the track, GNSS-independent and under jamming.
Explore Counter-UAS →Mission · Strike
Strike
Any host becomes a strike node — a dense magazine of loitering effectors fired in salvo across ground, surface and subsea.
Explore Strike →The smart core
Built to launch when the battlefield has gone dark
GNSS-independent launch
Establish an accurate launch solution with no satellite fix — under active jamming and spoofing, the defining condition of the modern battlefield.
Autonomous safe-launch under EW
The box runs the full arm–safe–fire sequence itself when the radio environment is contested and the operator may be cut off.
Cross-domain effector handoff
Link the effector, hand it off, and let go — netting air, surface and subsea nodes into a single layered network.
Fibre- or radio-linked control
The box carries the effector's own link — fibre or radio, straight from the launch point — so the link sits with the launcher, not a separate relay aircraft or comms node to field and protect.
One core · Every host
The host the mission needs
Proven in the field
Launched drones are already deciding battles — in every theatre
Not a forecast — a pattern repeating in conflict after conflict. Cheap drones launched from uncrewed hosts are deciding engagements, and the kinetic drone is the answer that scales. Umbra is the launch node for both.
Boat-launched FPVs killed two Pantsir-S1 and an Osa — air defence destroyed from the deck of an uncrewed boat.
Interceptor drones destroyed more than 33,000 attacking UAVs in a single month — the kinetic answer, at scale.
Drones now cause roughly 60% of battlefield casualties — more than artillery.
77 killed; weaponised attacks ran 5 → 107 → 233 → 260+ in three years. The threat is past state armies.
Drone incursions at military installations jumped from 230 to ~420 — "our ability to defeat them was poor."
Some 90 were jam-immune fibre-optic FPVs — and an advanced military still has no fielded answer.
Built to integrate
Easy to drop into your system
You own the customer and the solution. The Umbra is the launch node inside it — open, host-agnostic and fast to integrate.
Any effector
Open to the operator's own munition or interceptor — the effector stays a commodity you source, never a lock-in.
Any platform
Ground, surface or subsea — a host already in service becomes a launch node by configuration, not a new programme.
European, export-clean
EU-built in Portugal and free of ITAR constraints — sovereign supply, and the markets you can sell into stay wide open.
Datasheet
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The full Umbra technical datasheet — capability, interfaces and integration — is available to qualified partners on request.
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