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The technology, built in-house.

No foreign firmware. No licensed flight stack. No third-party software dependency. Here is what that actually means, subsystem by subsystem.

T1 / ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

AI Flight Autonomy

Onboard autonomy handles autonomous waypoint navigation, altitude hold and mid-flight mission reprogramming without operator input — the drone flies the mission, not a joystick.

T2 / SWARM

Swarm Intelligence

A native peer-to-peer mesh lets multiple drones hold formation autonomously, allocate roles dynamically, and survive the loss of any single node — no central controller to take out.

T3 / AUTONOMY

Autonomous Systems

VTOL launch and recovery, fixed-wing cruise, and the transition between them are all handled by our own control laws — tuned for the high-endurance target role.

T4 / COMPUTE

Mission Computing

Real-time flight management on a companion compute layer, sized for the swarm coordination and reprogramming workload while keeping power budget within endurance limits.

T5 / VISION

Computer Vision

Terrain awareness and target-related processing for current and future payload configurations, developed against the operational profiles MAVIS actually flies.

T6 / COMMS

Communication Systems

AES-256 encrypted command and control across the full 40 km range, with anti-jam and anti-intercept architecture for live missile-range RF environments.

T7 / NAV

GPS + NavIC Navigation

Dual-constellation positioning using GPS and India's own NavIC system for resilient, accurate navigation in all operational environments.

T8 / SIM

Simulation Technologies

A digital model of the platform and its swarm behaviour, used to rehearse missions and validate flight software before anything leaves the ground.

"If we don't own the code, we don't own the system. So we wrote all of it."
— ENGINEERING TEAM, SANTA AERO DEFENCE

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