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Tethered architecture
Tow cables carry power, fiber-optic data, and physical retrieval. No wireless jamming vulnerability. No battery limits.
V-06 · Mission Venture · Concept-Stage Mission Package
Maritime Shield
Maritime Shield (Guardian Net) is a tethered unmanned satellite defense boat perimeter for high-value naval assets, ports, and forward operating bases. 8 to 24 boats per host vessel. Swarm-defense-resistant. No battery limits. Built for Navy, SOCOM maritime, Coast Guard, port security, maritime primes, OTA pilots, SOFWERX maritime experimentation, and DARPA maritime programs.
Problem
Cheap Drone Boats Can Sink Billion-Dollar Warships.
Low-cost unmanned surface vessels, explosive drone boats, can damage or sink billion-dollar warships. Adversaries deploy swarms of autonomous or remotely-piloted vessels to overwhelm traditional defenses. Missiles are expensive. Guns require constant human engagement. Reaction time is shrinking. The Navy needs persistent, automated perimeter defense for ports, carrier strike groups, tankers, and forward operating bases.
Capability
Tethered Robotic Fleet. Floating Perimeter. No Battery Limits.
Maritime Shield deploys 8 to 24 unmanned satellite defense boats tethered to a protected naval vessel, each acting as a remote sensor and interceptor node, forming a floating defensive shield 200 to 600 meters from the host ship. Heavy-duty tow cables provide continuous power, hardened fiber-optic communications, physical retrieval, and jam-resistant control. No batteries. No radio reliance. No signal interception. Each satellite carries marine radar, thermal cameras, passive RF detection, LiDAR proximity sensors, and acoustic sensors.
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Layered sensing
Radar. Thermal. Passive RF. LiDAR. Acoustic. Distributed nodes detect low-profile drone boats from multiple angles.
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Swarm-resistant
Multiple satellite vessels engage multiple targets simultaneously. Defense shifts from one ship to a distributed robotic fleet.
Why now
Distributed Robotic Fleet Replaces Single-Ship Vulnerability.
Modern naval warfare is changing. Adversaries field cheap unmanned threats faster than traditional defense systems can adapt. Maritime Shield turns a single high-value ship into a distributed defensive fleet. Operational use cases: aircraft carriers, amphibious assault ships, naval logistics vessels, fuel tankers, strategic ports, forward operating bases, offshore platforms.
Maturity & routing
Verified Where Verified. Mapped to Federal Routes.
Maturity
Concept
Concept-Stage Mission Package. Customer-operated, release-stage, and sustainment-ready claims used only where verified.
Federal route
Navy + DARPA cluster
Navy. SOCOM maritime. Coast Guard. Port security. Maritime primes. OTA pilots. SOFWERX maritime experimentation. DARPA maritime programs.
Prime fit
Maritime prime teaming
SDVOSB subsystem fit for maritime primes serving Navy unmanned and port-security programs. Concept-stage package ready for prime capture.
Technical exchange
Request a Maritime Shield technical exchange.
Navy program offices, SOCOM maritime, Coast Guard, port-security operators, maritime primes, DARPA managers: tell us the platform and the threat scenario. Axirix tailors the package to your evaluation criteria.