INDIGENOUS · AUTONOMOUS · COUNTER-DRONE INTERCEPTOR

Drone swarms are cheap.
Shooting them down isn't.

Missile-based air defence can cost crores per intercept against drones worth a fraction of that. Vayu Rakshak is the airborne interceptor built to close that cost gap — launch from any vehicle, hunt autonomously, neutralise kinetically.

10X
attacker cost advantage vs. missile defence
VTOL
launches from any vehicle, no setup
250 km/h
flight-tested prototype speed
PROTOTYPE LIVE
SPD250 KM/H NAVGPS+RTK LOCK MODEAUTONOMOUS
Built. Flying. Ready to evolve.

A VTOL interceptor that hunts, not just flies.

Vayu Rakshak launches from any vehicle, pursues a hostile drone autonomously, and engages it kinetically — the mobile airborne intercept layer no indigenous system currently offers.

✦ Physical prototype in flight — not a render ✦
250 kmph
Speed achieved
VTOL
Hub-launch, no setup
GPS+RTK
Navigation live
Live today

Cost advantage

A fraction of the cost of a missile intercept.

Indigenous build

Airframe, navigation and mission autonomy, built in-house.

Proprietary ML

Homegrown AI guidance algorithms.

By design — the architecture we're funding

AI autonomy

No manual piloting required.

Zero-manual engage

Fully autonomous target engagement.

Radar-integratable

Slots into existing radar infrastructure.

Swarm-ready

Multi-unit coordination against drone swarms.

One platform · four domains

A platform, not a single product.

The same autonomy stack — detect, pursue, engage, coordinate — is domain-agnostic. Built once, it re-hulls for air, land, and water, in both offensive and defensive roles.

Why we built our own flight stack
Open-source autopilots

ArduPilot & Betaflight

Proven — for the flight envelope they were designed for. Built for stable hover and moderate speeds, with margins that assume gentle flight dynamics. Flight safety inherited from a community repo.

VS
Vayu Rakshak custom stack

Proprietary control algorithms

Engineered for high-speed, high-agility pursuit — where a millisecond error is a mission-ending one. Flight safety we own, not one we inherit.

Built to scale beyond the sky
Land · Live today

Vehicle-launched interceptor

The flying prototype today — launches from any ground vehicle for perimeter and aerial defense against incoming drones and projectiles.

Air

Air-launched variant

Deployed from an existing airborne platform — jet, helicopter, or larger carrier drone — to reach and engage targets beyond ground range, on assignment.

Water

Surface / sub-surface variant

Coastal and maritime denial, sharing the same core autonomy stack.

Offensive, defensive & swarm-coordinated. Every hull can strike or intercept. Multiple units share a common coordination layer to counter multi-drone swarms — not just single targets.

One core R&D investment → multiple procurement categories across the armed forces.

The opportunity

India needs an indigenous answer to the drone threat. We're building it.

Vayu Rakshak is moving from flying prototype to field-ready interceptor. If you're evaluating counter-drone systems or exploring a partnership, we'd welcome a conversation.

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