Aerial defense for container terminals, berths, and bulk facilities, where one crane out of service backs up an entire supply chain.
A container terminal has very little redundancy. A handful of ship-to-shore cranes work a handful of berths, and those cranes are bespoke, enormous, and take 18 to 24 months to replace. Damage one and throughput drops for years.
Ports are also the most open sites on this list. They face the water, they have no meaningful airspace control, and the approach is uncontrolled. Congestion propagates outward through the network within days of a berth going down.
Fences, cameras, and guards were built to stop people on foot or in vehicles. An attack drone crosses the fence line at 300 feet and 180 knots, and ground security never sees it.
Modern attack drones fly pre-programmed routes with no radio link to jam and no satellite signal to spoof. Jamming works on some drones and fails on others, and it only has to fail once.
Firing a million-dollar missile at a drone that costs a few thousand is a trade the defender loses every time. In a saturation attack, the attacker only has to get one through.
A radar with no interceptor is just an alarm. An interceptor with no detection is useless. Wiring together equipment from different vendors takes years most operators do not have.
For this site type. Radar covers the marine approach where there is no perimeter. Cradle is available in ground and vessel-deck variants, so coverage extends across berths and the approach. Guardian intercepts over water, clear of the terminal.
Kinetic interceptor.
A family of kinetic interceptors that defeat one-way attack drones at standoff distance, away from the facility rather than overhead. The line spans manual, semi-autonomous, and fire-and-forget configurations, so engagement authority is matched to each site’s rules, and terminal guidance stays immune to jamming.
A layered approach, across three generations. Each generation adds a method and the layers stack on the one before it.
Only 1
Operator per engagement
Manual FPV flight
Where the program began. A dismounted crew of one to two, no fixed infrastructure, and a manually flown interceptor at 210 mph. Rapidly deployable anywhere, and the foundation of the layered approach.
Seconds
Detection to launch
Semi-autonomous, operator holds engagement authority
Radar detection triggers launch automatically, and a single operator manages semi-autonomous flight while retaining engagement authority. An open sensor architecture fuses acoustics, optics, and radar for higher efficacy and a far lower time-to-launch.
Fully autonomous
Seek & destroy
Full autonomy, no operator in the loop
The full Guardian ecosystem, operating fully autonomously: it seeks, identifies, and defeats the threat without an operator in the loop. Three seekers are available — radar-based is entering service, with visual and laser-seeking in testing.
Detection without a threat library.
360-degree radar surveillance that detects and classifies what is flying rather than matching it against a list of known drones. It runs in all weather, day and night, and feeds the rest of the system.
Always loaded and ready.
Sealed, weatherproof launch containers that hold Guardian interceptors at sub-minute readiness for months, unattended, with no battery drain. They launch automatically on a radar cue, and are distributed around the perimeter so there is no single point of failure. Ground, vehicle-mounted, and vessel-deck variants.
Command and control.
Autonomy and command-and-control software that fuses every sensor into a single live picture, classifies threats, and cues the response. One operator can manage an entire site or several at once, in the cloud, on-premise, or over a satellite link with triple redundancy.
Low-cost interceptor for saturation attacks.
Any Matrix airframe configured for autonomy becomes a low-cost interceptor for saturation attacks. When threat drones are cheap and arrive in numbers, the response has to be cheap per intercept and available everywhere at once.
Operators trained in hours.
Simulator-based training takes crews from zero to mission-ready in hours to days rather than months. If protection is needed immediately, Powerus can operate the system while your team trains toward full ownership.
Forward surveillance drones.
Rapid-launch surveillance aircraft that go from packed to airborne in under two minutes, with thermal and EO imaging out to 20 km. Confirm what the radar sees, assess damage, and patrol the perimeter without sending people toward the threat.
Radar detects an inbound track at range, with no threat library required.
xNav fuses radar, visual, and RF data, classifies the threat, and recommends a response.
A Guardian launches from its Cradle and intercepts at standoff distance, under the engagement authority your site requires.
Every engagement feeds the detection models, so the system improves with each deployment.
Guardian interceptors have been employed operationally against one-way attack drones, loitering munitions, and reconnaissance UAVs in active theater, including contested electronic-warfare environments where jamming-based systems fail.
†Approximately 89%, across manual and semi-autonomous launch modes, per operating-unit effectiveness assessment. Documentation available on request.
Deployed with allied nations and exercised alongside U.S. service members.
Data from every active deployment feeds into the detection models and interceptor design, so the system keeps improving after you buy it.
NDAA-compliant, U.S.-manufactured, and in serial production, with inventory on the shelf.
500+ units / month·30-day lead timeBerth downtime is charged to every shipper on the schedule, and the congestion it causes reprices the port’s reliability long after the crane is repaired.
A defense stack costs a fraction of one successful strike. The only real question is whether you invest before an attack or account for the damage after.
Ports are where a national economy touches world trade. Their reliability is priced into every contract that moves through them. Capital markets price infrastructure risk in both directions: under threat they add a premium and treat the whole jurisdiction as more expensive, and when that infrastructure is visibly protected, confidence returns and capital flows back. Security is not a cost center. It is a signal the market rewards.
§Market estimates drawn from third-party industry and press reporting, not Powerus data.
Radar detects and classifies what is flying rather than matching against a list of known aircraft, which is what makes it usable in busy, uncontrolled airspace. xNav fuses radar, optical, and RF into one picture and classifies the track before anything launches, and the operator holds engagement authority unless you configure otherwise.
Weeks, not quarters. The system ships from serial production with inventory on the shelf, and crews reach mission-ready in hours to days on simulator-based training. If you need coverage before your own team is trained, Powerus can operate the system on your behalf from day one.
No. A single operator can manage a site, or several sites, from one console. Guardian-2 launches automatically on a radar cue while the operator retains engagement authority, so the staffing requirement is a handful of trained people rather than a standing unit.
That is what the Autonomous Matrix layer addresses. When threat drones are cheap and arrive in numbers, the response has to be cheap per intercept and available everywhere at once, so any Matrix airframe can be configured for autonomy and coordinated as a low-cost interceptor alongside Guardian.
It depends on your jurisdiction and, at some sites, on the specific airspace authority. Engagement authority is configurable from operator-approved to fully autonomous precisely so the system can be matched to local rules, and we work through the applicable framework with you as part of the assessment.
No. Radar and Cradle containers are sited around your existing layout rather than through it, the system runs unattended at readiness, and nothing launches until a track has been detected and classified. Normal movements, overflights, and cooperative traffic are not triggers.
Request a threat assessment and Powerus will map your site’s exposure, the threat profile in your region, and the exact system configuration to close the gap.
Sector, location, and what you are protecting. Two fields to start.
Threat profile for your region and the gaps in your current posture, inside 48 hours.
The specific stack for your site, with lead times and cost. No obligation.
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