Eyes in the sky, on your terms.
Aerial platforms built for the people who run toward trouble. For fire crews, paramedics, police, and defence teams who need to see a scene, find a person, and trust the link back to the ground. Every airframe is configured for the mission you actually fly.
A drone is only useful if you trust what it sends back.
So we start there. A clear picture, an encrypted link, and a flight that lasts long enough to matter. The rest is configured around the job in front of you.
What every Calyraen aircraft does well
The same foundation under every build, whether it flies for a fire department or a forward team. Specialised payloads sit on top of this.
See in the dark
A thermal camera reads heat, not light. A person sheltering under trees, a hot spot still smouldering inside a wall, an engine left running in a field. The aircraft shows it to you on a screen at 3am the same way it does at noon.
Stay up longer
Endurance is the difference between a quick look and a real search. Our standard airframe holds the air for a meaningful stretch on one battery pack, and swaps to a fresh pack in under a minute so the search never really stops.
Send a link nobody can read
The video and control link is encrypted end to end. What the aircraft sees travels to your screen and nowhere else. No open feed, no eavesdropping, no surprises on someone else's monitor.
Fly without a map
GPS can drop out under bridges, between buildings, or where someone is jamming it. Onboard sensors let the aircraft hold its position and come home using what it can see, not just where a satellite says it is.
Survive the weather you work in
Rain, dust, wind, and cold are normal on a callout, not an exception. The airframe is sealed and rated to keep flying in conditions that ground a hobby drone.
One screen, one operator
The ground controller is built to be flown by someone wearing gloves, in the rain, under stress. Big controls, a bright daylight screen, and a layout you can learn in an afternoon.
Tell us what you fly for
Every deployment starts with a conversation about the mission, the environment, and the rules you operate under. We build the aircraft around that, not the other way round.
The first one to the scene can be airborne.
For EMS, fire, and police. An aircraft overhead gives the people on the ground a picture they cannot get any other way: who is where, how big the scene really is, and where the person they are looking for might be.
In a search, the sky sees first.
A walking line of searchers covers a field in an hour. A thermal camera covers it in minutes, and it can tell a warm body from a cold log in the dark.
Situational awareness, in plain terms
What the aircraft actually gives the people running the scene.
See the whole scene at once
A house fire, a pile-up on the motorway, a crowd. From above, the commander sees the full picture and where everyone is, instead of guessing from radio calls. Fewer surprises, better decisions.
Find the heat
The thermal camera shows warm against cold. A missing hiker under tree cover, a casualty in a ditch, a person hiding in long grass at night. It also reads how hot a fire is burning and where it is spreading next.
Search fast, then search again
Cover a large area quickly, mark the spots worth a closer look, and send ground teams straight there. With fast battery swaps, the search continues while the picture stays live on the commander's screen.
Know exactly where to look
Tap a spot on the screen and the aircraft gives you a real grid reference. The person on the ground gets a location to walk to, not a vague point in the trees.
Keep a record
Everything the aircraft sees is recorded. After the incident, that footage helps a fire investigation, a collision report, or a review of how the call was handled.
Up in under two minutes
The kit lives in a hard case in the vehicle. Open it, power on, launch. The aircraft is checking its own systems while the crew is still deciding where to send it.
On the job
What it looks like on a real call
Three jobs, three ways the same aircraft earns its place in the vehicle.
Missing person at night
A walker is overdue and the temperature is dropping. The aircraft flies a search pattern over the hillside and the thermal camera picks out a warm shape against the cold ground. The crew gets a grid reference and walks straight to them.
Search and rescueStructure fire
Before crews go in, the aircraft shows where the fire is hottest and whether it has reached the roof. The incident commander positions people away from the part of the building most likely to fail.
Fire ground awarenessVehicle pursuit
Rather than a convoy of cars through residential streets, one aircraft keeps eyes on the vehicle from a safe height. Officers on the ground stay back and stay informed.
Police supportFirst responder configuration
A typical build for an emergency services kit. Final spec is set with you.
- Daylight camera
- High zoom, stabilised, reads number plates and faces at distance
- Thermal camera
- Radiometric, shows actual temperatures, switchable picture-in-picture
- Low light
- Sees by starlight and streetlight without a spotlight
- Spotlight option
- Steerable light to guide ground crews to a location
- Time to launch
- Under two minutes from a closed case
- Battery swap
- Under one minute, search stays live
- Storage
- Single waterproof hard case for vehicle boot
- Training
- Operator competent in a day, not a week
The crew on the ground should never feel alone.
That is the whole point of the aircraft. One more set of eyes, higher up, on their side.
Know what is there before you arrive.
Reconnaissance platforms built for teams who operate where the link cannot be trusted to anyone but them. Quiet, hard to detect, and built so the data it gathers stays with the people who gathered it.
Reconnaissance is information. Information has to stay secret.
An aircraft that sees everything is a liability if the wrong people can see the same feed. We treat the link and the stored footage as the mission, not an afterthought.
Reconnaissance and secure data
What the platform does, and how the information it gathers is protected. No weapons, no offensive capability. This is about seeing and knowing.
Watch without being seen
A low acoustic and visual signature lets the aircraft observe from a standoff distance. It gathers the picture without announcing that it is there.
Encrypted from sensor to screen
The video and control link is encrypted with keys you hold. Intercepting the signal yields noise. There is no clear feed for anyone to capture.
Fly when GPS is denied
In a contested area, satellite positioning is often jammed or spoofed. The aircraft navigates by what its own sensors see, holds its course, and returns home without a satellite fix.
Footage that stays put
Recorded data is encrypted on the aircraft itself. Lose the airframe and the footage stays locked. It can only be read with credentials on your ground systems.
No connection to the outside
The platform talks to your ground station and nothing else. There is no cloud account, no call home, and no external service that could be a point of leverage or leak.
Wipe on command
A single action clears the aircraft's storage and keys, in the field, if a mission demands it. Nothing recoverable is left behind.
How the data is protected
The security model in plain terms. We will detail the cryptographic specifics under a direct engagement.
- Link encryption
- End to end, customer-held keys, frequency agile
- Jamming response
- Holds position and returns home on its own
- Spoof resistance
- Cross-checks satellite position against onboard sensors
- Signature
- Low acoustic and visual profile for standoff observation
- Storage
- Encrypted at rest, readable only with ground credentials
- Connectivity
- No cloud, no external services, no call home
- Emergency wipe
- Single command clears storage and keys in the field
- Chain of custody
- Footage tagged with time, position, and operator
The best reconnaissance is the kind the other side never knew happened.
Quiet to fly, impossible to read, and gone without a trace when the mission ends.
The numbers that decide a mission.
Flight time, what the aircraft can carry, and how the link holds up. These are the three things that turn a drone from a toy into a tool. Here is how we think about each.
Flight time, payload, and the link
The three constraints that shape every build. There is always a trade between them, and we tune that trade to your mission.
Flight time
How long it stays up on one charge. A heavier camera or a longer-range radio costs you minutes in the air. We size the battery and airframe so the aircraft lasts as long as the job realistically needs, then add fast swaps so the operation never has to land for long.
Payload
What the aircraft carries: the cameras, the sensors, the radio. Each one adds weight and draws power. The platform is built around a payload bay so the same airframe can carry a thermal camera one day and a different sensor the next.
The link
The radio connection between aircraft and operator. It has to reach far enough, stay encrypted, and survive interference. Range, resistance to jamming, and how much video it can carry are all dials we set to match the environment you fly in.
Reference specification
Indicative figures for our standard platform. Bespoke builds move these numbers in either direction depending on the mission.
- Flight time per pack
- Sized to the mission, with hot-swap packs for continuous operation
- Battery swap
- Under one minute
- Control range
- Line of sight, extendable with a relay
- Climate
- Sealed and rated for rain, dust, cold, and wind
- Payload bay
- Modular, swappable in the field
- Standard imaging
- Daylight zoom plus radiometric thermal
- Sensor options
- Low light, gas, mapping, and others on request
- Lighting
- Optional steerable spotlight
- Encryption
- End to end, customer-held keys
- Frequency
- Agile, hops to avoid interference
- GPS denied
- Onboard navigation holds position and returns home
- Recording
- Encrypted at rest on the aircraft
Every gram in the air costs you a minute on the clock.
Good engineering is knowing which grams are worth it for the job you are flying.
What this means for you
The capabilities above, translated into things you actually care about.
You fly long enough to finish
The aircraft is sized so a search, a survey, or an observation lasts as long as the task, not as long as the battery happens to allow.
You change the job, not the aircraft
Swap the payload and the same airframe does a different mission. One platform, one set of training, many uses.
You keep the link, and keep it private
The connection reaches where you need it, holds up under interference, and stays readable only to you.
We do not sell you a drone. We build you one.
Every Calyraen aircraft is configured for the mission, the environment, and the rules of the team that flies it. The conversation starts with what you need to do, and the airframe follows from there.
Off the shelf is rarely on the mission.
A fire department and a forward team need very different aircraft. We would rather build two right than sell one compromise.
How a bespoke build works
From the first conversation to an aircraft in your hands, and the support after.
We start with the mission
What do you need to see, where, and under what conditions? Day or night, rain or dust, line of sight or beyond it. The answers set the airframe, the payload, and the link before any hardware is chosen.
We configure, not improvise
The platform is modular by design. The right battery, the right camera, the right radio for your environment, assembled into a coherent aircraft rather than a pile of add-ons.
We respect your rules
Every operator flies under regulations and procedures. We build to fit how you are allowed and trained to operate, and we keep the controls simple enough to learn fast.
We train your people
An aircraft nobody can fly is a paperweight. We train your operators on the kit they will actually use, in conditions close to the ones they will face.
We support what we build
Spare parts, repairs, and software updates for the life of the platform. When something breaks at 2am on a callout, you know who to call.
We keep it yours
No cloud account you do not control, no feed that lives on someone else's server. The aircraft, the data, and the keys belong to you.
Who we build for
Different missions, the same approach: understand the job, build the aircraft, support the team.
Fire and rescue
Thermal-first builds for fire grounds, wildland fires, and search and rescue. Fast to launch, easy to fly, rated for foul weather.
Talk to usPolice and EMS
Scene awareness, pursuit support, and casualty location. A daylight and thermal payload with a steerable light and a clear record of every flight.
Talk to usDefence teams
Quiet reconnaissance platforms with encrypted links, GPS-denied navigation, and data that stays locked to the unit that gathered it.
Talk to usQuestions we hear early
It depends on the payload and how far it moves from our standard platform. A configuration close to our reference build is quick. A heavily customised airframe with bespoke sensors takes longer. We give you an honest timeline in the first conversation.
Yes. Every operator flies under rules, whether civil aviation authority requirements for emergency services or operational procedures for defence. We build and document the aircraft to fit how you are permitted and trained to operate.
You do, completely. There is no Calyraen cloud, no external service, and no feed that touches our servers. Footage is encrypted on the aircraft and readable only with credentials on your ground systems.
We support the platforms we build for their working life. Spares, repairs, and software updates, with a real person to call. We would rather you trust the aircraft than replace it.
No. Our aerial work is observation and reconnaissance: seeing, searching, and knowing. We do not build or fit weapons.
Start with a conversation
Tell us what you need to see and where you need to see it. We will tell you honestly what we can build, how long it takes, and what it does. No catalogue, no pressure.