Defence and government
The same engineering our civilian customers rely on, for defence, military and government programmes where the spectrum is contested, satellite navigation is jammed or spoofed, and the vehicle still has to finish the task and come back.
Navigation in contested environments
Electronic warfare has made GNSS jamming and spoofing a routine condition rather than an edge case. The dangerous failure is not losing GPS: it is a receiver that keeps its lock and reports a confident, wrong position.
- Anti-jam and anti-spoof GNSS: multi-band, multi-constellation receivers integrated into the airframe, with integrity monitoring that refuses a compromised fix.
- GPS-denied navigation on inertial, visual, ranging and odometric references, each weighted by measured confidence.
- Pre-agreed fallback behaviour when no source can be trusted, instead of flying on a guess.
More in resilient navigation and the positioning case study.
Autonomy beyond the link
BVLOS operations in a contested area cannot assume a radio link, a satellite constellation or a ground station. We build onboard autonomy that keeps deciding correctly when all three are gone.
More in autonomy and onboard AI.
Encrypted and mesh datalinks
Encrypted command, telemetry and video links, and mesh networking so vehicles relay for each other beyond line of sight and a fleet keeps its picture when one link drops.
More in telemetry and ground link.
Counter-UAS
Counter-UAS (C-UAS) engineering: sensor integration for detecting and tracking drones, built by people who know how a drone navigates, links and fails under jamming, because that is what we engineer every day.
ISR payloads and FPV video
Payload integration for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR): cameras and gimbals, onboard video processing on boards we design from the schematic up, and low-latency digital video links for FPV piloting and live observation.
Open autopilots, your source code
Tactical UAS built on open-source autopilots, with the mission software on a companion computer. Changes are carried as patches against upstream rather than a frozen fork, so a vehicle can take security fixes for its whole service life, and the source is delivered into your repository.
More in integration, and Fork Care for keeping a programme's firmware current.
Safety, termination and fleet support
Flight termination and battery systems engineered as safety-critical, and fleets kept on known firmware and configuration across sites, updated remotely without losing units.
More in power and safety systems and fleet lifecycle.
Swiss, and under Swiss export control
KopterMax is a Swiss-registered company. Defence-related work and supply fall under Swiss export control law, and we check early whether a request needs a licence from SECO. Programmes are handled under NDA, and clients are never named.
Tell us the constraint you cannot get past
The mass budget, the latency, the environment, the certification route. We will tell you honestly whether it is something we should be working on — and if it is not, who should.