Launcher · Counter-UAS
Turn any host into a
counter-drone shooter
Take the cue from any sensor or air-defence C2 and fly a cheap drone interceptor onto the track — GNSS-independent, under jamming, on a host already in service.
Easy to integrate
Drop it into the network you already run
Cued by any sensor or C2
Cue-in from the operator's radar, EO/IR, RF or acoustic sensors — or straight from the air-defence C2. Net into the layered defence, don't replace it.
Your interceptor, or ours
We configure the launcher for the operator's own drone interceptor, or supply the matched Silentis Interceptor UAS as an option.
Any host
Fixed mast, pickup, UGV, truck or surface vessel — coverage placed where there is none today.
Agnostic by design, tailored in practice: the smart core is a product, but every node is configured and qualified to your air-defence layer — your sensors and C2, your chosen interceptor, your hosts. You field a counter-drone shooter adapted to how you operate.
Cost-to-kill is the axis a C-UAS buy is decided on: the interceptor has to cost less than what it brings down, and the magazine has to be deep enough to survive saturation. A single node fires in salvo from a multi-cell magazine, and the interceptor stays a cheap, competitively sourced commodity. Durable node, attritable effector — the exchange the market calls magazine depth at a favourable cost-per-engagement.
What the box does
The launcher, packaged around the smart core
- Multi-cell magazine — folding interceptors packed dense, loaded like rounds.
- Salvo launch — multi-round ripple against a saturating threat.
- Cue-in from any sensor or air-defence C2.
- Launch-deconfliction interlocks — inhibits and fire-sequencing checked before any shot leaves the cell.
- Autonomous safe-launch sequencing under electronic warfare.
- Launch-grade navigation without GNSS — the accuracy a guided shot needs, held under jamming and spoofing; the kinetic answer to jam-immune fibre-optic drones.
- Operator-in-the-loop or autonomous launch, as your rules of engagement set; arm, safe, abort and wave-off retained when an operator is in the loop.
- Encrypted, jam-resilient control link — mesh networking between nodes and beyond-line-of-sight relay.
- Fibre- or radio-linked control — the box holds the interceptor's link from the launch point.
- Mid-course handoff — fly the interceptor onto the track and net the shot.
The target set is small UAS — DoD Groups 1–3, NATO Class I–II — from FPV quadcopters and fixed-wing ISR to one-way-attack drones of the Shahed/Geran class flown in mass nightly salvos. The node sits in the hard-kill layer of a layered defence, cued by the same C2 that runs the soft-kill (EW) layer, and earns its place where EW alone fails — against autonomous and fibre-optic drones that carry no RF link to jam. Procured under the (V)SHORAD line, it flies the operator's own interceptor onto the track. For a single large interceptor kept on standing watch at a fixed site, see Umbra Box.
One core · Every host
Place the shooter where the gap is
Configured onto a host you already run
Slots onto a host already in service
The node is built to bolt onto what you already run — no purpose-built platform, no clean-sheet integration. Fit it, power it, talk to it, and the host is a counter-drone shooter.
Mounts on what you run
Standard ISO twist-lock fittings onto a deck, flatbed or mast — no host-build, no bespoke cradle.
Runs off host power
Vehicle DC or naval AC drawn straight from the platform — no host-side electrical modification.
Talks over an open bus
An open, documented data interface — no black-box OS, no bespoke host software to field.
Sovereign by construction — EU-made and ITAR-free, designed in the EU with no US-origin content. The smart core is open where it counts and proprietary only where the hard IP lives — see the architecture.
The threat today
The drone threat is everywhere — and the kinetic answer is scaling
From front lines to borders to city skies, attacking drones are a problem in every theatre — and the cheap, kinetic interceptor is the answer that scales. Umbra is the launch node that flies that interceptor from any host.
Interceptor drones destroyed more than 33,000 attacking UAVs in a single month — kinetic counter-UAS, at scale.
Ukrinform · Mar 202677 killed; the curve ran 5 → 107 → 233 → 260+. The threat has reached non-state actors and law enforcement.
NCITE / CSIS · 2026Incursions at military installations rose 230 → ~420; the gap is mobile coverage — "nothing that follows a patrolling soldier."
Breaking Defense · Oct 2025Standards
Built to the standards a programme checks for
Designed to the open interoperability standards a NATO or EU programme expects — STANAG 4586-compatible, MOSA-aligned (US 10 U.S.C. §4401), with ASTERIX, Cursor-on-Target and SAPIENT cue-in — and with a qualification path designed to the US and European defence standards (MIL-STD / NATO STANAG / AECTP) that clear a launcher to field. ITAR-free, EU-designed and EU-made. Silentis holds no certifications today; conformance is completed on your programme.
Briefing
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