Autonomous interceptors

America doesn't build cheap interceptors. We will.

Boid Labs is building autonomous interceptor drones — low-cost airframes that detect and destroy hostile UAS.

The cheapest weapon in modern warfare has no cheap counter.

A first-person-view drone costs a few hundred dollars. The radar-cued missiles, high-power microwave arrays, and crewed interceptors we currently use to stop them cost ten thousand to ten million times more per engagement. That math already broke defense in Ukraine. It will break it in every theater that matters to the U.S. this decade.

The only interceptor that's economical against a drone is another drone. Ukraine proved the concept under fire. No American company is yet producing interceptors at the cost and scale the threat requires.

The companies that define this category over the next decade are being formed now. We're building one of them.

One airframe. American-built. Designed around three principles.

Autonomous at the edge

Target detection, classification, and engagement happen onboard. No cloud, no uplink. The system has to work in GPS- and comms-denied environments where cloud-tethered counter-UAS fails.

Attritable by design

Every design decision assumes tens of thousands of units, not hundreds. American supply chain. No exquisite components we can't make at scale.

Coordinated by default

Our airframes coordinate through local rules — the principle that gave the company its name. Lose one unit and the network reroutes; there is no command aircraft to take down.

One airframe. Three applications.

01 — Dismounted

Soldier and squad-level air defense. Man-portable launcher. The mission we're building toward first.

02 — Mobile

Vehicle- and convoy-integrated air defense. Shared airframe, vehicle-specific launcher.

03 — Fixed

Critical-infrastructure site defense. Airports, energy, bases, data centers, stadiums.

Our first target is the dismounted soldier. The same airframe extends to vehicle-mounted and fixed-site configurations as the product matures.

Two founders.

We are Dmitriy and Yotam. We know how to make hardware work.

Dmitriy Pautov
Physics + EE, UIUC
  • Intern, Shield AI. Vision hardware for autonomous drones.
  • Intern, Starlink at SpaceX. Gateway program hardware.
Yotam Dubiner
CS, UIUC
  • Firmware validation engineer, Tesla.
  • Software engineer, KLA.

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We want to hear from potential customers, operators who've faced drone threats, investors in hard tech, and engineers who want to build hardware that matters.