03.01
Edge AI pilot
Full autonomy on-board. No ground link required. Deployable on Jetson Orin, Qualcomm QRB, x86, and future chipsets.
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POST77 · AETHON
Open autonomy.
Field-hardened.
A sub-$600K autonomous VTOL ISR & strike drone built to close NATO's capability gap — and to serve the civilian missions that cannot wait.
LAT 25.2854° · LON 51.5310° · DOH Scroll
01 / MISSION
Western airspace is contested.
The answer cannot wait a decade.
Post77 builds the autonomous ISR and strike drone NATO needs now — open by architecture, field-ready in days, at one-fifth the cost of legacy systems. A question of timing, not ambition.
— POST77 COMMAND
02 / PLATFORM
The Aethon platform.
AETHON-V3 · REV 2026.04
Medium-range. Attritable. VTOL. The middle ground between loitering munitions and legacy MALE platforms — at one-fifth the cost.
Dimensions
- Length
- 2.65m
- Wingspan
- 3.75m
- Height
- 2.62m
Specifications
08 ROWS
- Max takeoff weight 01
- 75 kg
- Payload 02
- 22 kg
- Wingspan 03
- 3.75 m
- Max range 04
- 1974 km
- Max endurance 05
- 16 h
- Cruise speed 06
- 118 km/h
- Top speed 07
- 227 km/h
- Fuel capacity 08
- 29 L
03 / AUTONOMY
The open autonomy stack.
Edge AI pilot. Open SDK. Built to fly through GPS- and comms-denied environments.
# Swarming ingress — 12 aircraft, contested airspace
from p77.aegis import Mission, Swarm
async def ingress():
aircraft = 12
airspace = Mission(
env="contested",
gnss="denied",
comms="intermittent",
)
swarm = Swarm(aircraft, coop=True)
await swarm.launch(airspace)
return swarm.telemetry()
03.02
GPS- & comms-denied
Autonomous navigation through sensor fusion — RF, thermal, SIGINT, visual. Continues the mission when the link breaks.
03.03
Open SDK
ROS2 and gRPC. C++, Python, TypeScript. Plug-and-play into NATO C4ISR, PX4, and Ardupilot.
03.04
Cooperative teaming
One operator, dozens of drones. Up to 50 cross-domain assets from a single interface.
04 / CAPABILITIES
From surveillance to strike.
03 PROFILES
04.01 Mission profile · Persistent · 16h on-station
ISR
Persistent wide-area surveillance. On-board threat recognition, tracking, and re-identification.
04.02 Mission profile · Precision · Terminal engagement
Strike
Precision-guided terminal engagement. Attritable by design.
04.03 Mission profile · Cooperative · Up to 50 assets
Swarm
Cooperative multi-drone missions across ISR and strike. Resilient mesh, adaptive comms.
05 / DEPLOYED FOR
Built for contestedskies — and the missions that cannot wait.
[ DEF ] 04
Defence
- 01 NATO ISR
- 02 Long-range precision strike
- 03 EW-resilient platforms
- 04 Border and coastal defence
[ CIV ] 04
Civilian
- 01 Search & rescue (SAR)
- 02 Wildfire detection & response
- 03 Counter-narcotics & border security
- 04 Environmental & infrastructure monitoring
06 / HARDWARE
Renders do not fly. Real airframes do.
Aethon is manufactured on a dedicated line. Every airframe is assembled, calibrated, and flight-tested before shipment.
07 / FIELD-READY
Days, not years.
04 KPI
Production and fielding cycles measured in weeks. Customers activate budget in the same fiscal year — not the next decade.
Time to field
01<7 days
Operator-ready
02<4 hours
Cost vs. legacy
031/5
Unit price under
04$600 K
08 / ROADMAP
TRL 6 → TRL 8. This year.
05 MILESTONES
Five quarters from prototype to NATO-ready pre-series. Exported at TRL 8.
- Q4 2025 [ NOW ]
Prototype
Controlled flight testing. Autonomous ISR & VTOL validation.
- Q1 2026 02
Validation
Jamming, spoofing, GNSS-denied stress tests. Operator certification <4h.
- Q2 2026 03
NATO trials
Field trials TRL 6–7. DIANA and NSPA submissions.
- Q3 2026 04
TRL 8
Pre-series production. C4ISR integration. STANAG compliance.
- Q4 2026 05
Scale
Scale production. NATO export. Distribution channels.
09 / CONTACT
Request a demonstration.
For NATO, EU, and civilian agencies. We respond within one business day.