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00Rapid aerospace development

Mission-matched.

From Years

to Weeks

Purpose-built aircraft for defense and industry, engineered for production from the first iteration.

MGC2 · In design

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01FORGE

Design knowledge that compounds.

FORGE is our framework for how we build. Every build, test and field cycle feeds data to our process, so each vehicle starts smarter than the last.

  1. ARequirement

    Mission

    Payload, range, environment and threat set the brief, not the catalogue of what already flies.

  2. BDesign

    Airframe

    Proprietary design tools shape the aircraft to that requirement.

  3. CBuild & fly

    Iterate

    Rapid manufacturing turns each design into flight hardware, and each flight informs the next revision.

02Track record

Flown. Learned. Applied.

  1. MGC1Flown

    Learn

    Built fast for DARPA LIFT. Its lessons became FORGE.

  2. MGC2In design

    Apply

    The first FORGE-based aircraft. Contested logistics and AWADS.

    Now · Austin, TX

  3. NextAhead

    Expand

    More aircraft and ground vehicles, built for your mission, the same way.

03MGC2 · In design

Resupply through the weather.

Born from what MGC1 and DARPA LIFT taught us. Configured for contested logistics.

Designation
MGC2
Status
In design
Configuration
Tandem rotor, unmanned
Origin
Lessons from MGC1 and DARPA LIFT
Mission
Contested logistics
Capability
AWADS: precise delivery without ground-based navigation aids

Payload / range tradeDesign targets

Payload225lb

Range495nm

04Missions

Hardware for the mission at hand.

Defense

  1. 04.1

    Contested logistics

    Resupply with no crew on the route.

  2. 04.2

    Adverse weather delivery AWADS

    When the weather closes in.

  3. 04.3

    Remote sensing

    Sensor networks in terrain teams can't reach.

Industry

  1. 04.4

    Energy & infrastructure

    Remote pipelines, rigs and platforms.

  2. 04.5

    Agriculture & land

    Heavy, repeated delivery over roadless acreage.

  3. 04.6

    Emergency response

    No access, no grid.

05Engage

Bring us the mission.

Defense or industry. We'll build the aircraft.