Autonomous adaptable carrier

Crow

One long-endurance airframe, sensor payloads to 2 kg, many configurations. The payload changes; the aircraft, the autopilot and the ground station do not.

In the air

200km

Distance travelled

GNSS-denied

Visual navigation

100km

Telemetry range

The moment a commander starts rationing a capability, it stops being mass.

Crow is built to be flown at the mission that risks it. A 3D-printed structure whose parts can be reprinted in the field, hand launch with no catapult or runway to defend, and a cost per airframe that makes the decision to fly a tactical one rather than a budgetary one.

Wingspan: 2.15 m (2.75 m kit)
Endurance: 4 h (5 h extended)
Range: > 200 km travelled
Cruise: 15 m/s
Structure: 3D-printed, modular
Launch: By hand · belly landing
Autopilot: ArduPilot
Navigation: Vision-based core

Current configurations

CROW-MAP

Mapping

Downward survey camera stores encrypted images and can also transmit them live while the aircraft is still up. Vehicle detection runs on board.

26 MP APS-C · 16 / 25 / 35 mm · 3.0 cm/px at 200 m

A survey frame with two pieces of it shown at native resolution: cars
parked along a kerb, and a silo roof beside stacked timber. — One frame, two pieces of it at full resolution

CROW-VID-ZOOM

Day surveillance

Identification from a safe distance, not just detection overhead. The standard version keeps full color into dusk, using larger pixels to capture more light. If long-range detail matters more than low-light performance, the 4K version trades some sensitivity for up to 80× hybrid zoom.

1080p · 40× hybrid · yaw ±360° continuous — 4K · 80× build on request

Three frames from one pass: a wide field, the skyline at ten times, and a
single building at forty times. — The full zoom range on one pass

Additional variants

CROW-VID-IR

IR surveillance

An uncooled thermal channel beside a 4K low-light one, on a three-axis gimbal steered in flight. The thermal channel sees in total darkness and reads through smoke and foliage.

640 × 512 uncooled · NETD < 40 mK · 8× digital zoom · yaw ±140°

A frame from the aircraft: the visible image full frame with the thermal
channel inset in the top right corner. — Both channels at once — thermal inset

CROW-TRAIN

Training

Learn the platform at reduced cost. Same airframe, same autopilot, same ground station software — a crew trained here is trained on all of them.

Micro EO gimbal · 10 MP mapping camera · 40 km link

A crew member walking forward across a dry grass field, holding the
aircraft above their head at the moment of a hand launch. — Hand launch — one person, no runway

Security

Nothing recovered from the aircraft leads back to you.

Encrypted storage

Frames, video and logs are written to an encrypted card. Pulled out and read anywhere else, it yields nothing.

Decoy home point

The launch coordinates can be overwritten with false ones before every flight, so a downed airframe points somewhere else.

Keyed launch

Each aircraft is paired to its own USB key and will not launch without it. A captured one cannot be flown.

Data link encrypted, frequency hopping · video link encrypted

Your payload can fly too

The configurations above are the ones we fly. The carrier takes up to 2 kg, on the same companion computer and the same encrypted storage, flying the same GNSS-free navigation.

Mass and power cost time in the air — send us your requirements.

contact@sentinel-eagle.ai