Now in Ukraine: Cobalt Academy and PanoptesAI
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Group 1 UAS · Counter-UAS

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Cobalt Academy trains professional drone operators and Counter-UAS teams, building the customer relationships and field insight that shape the low-cost UAS and Counter-UAS technology we develop.

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A drone flying over a mountain meadow and fir forest in the Carpathians at sunset
International partner

Now in Ukraine.

Cobalt Academy is partnering with PanoptesAI, a Ukrainian Counter-UAS company. Its passive-first, multi-sensor airspace security platform fuses acoustic, RF and EO/IR data into one validated track per drone, and is field-validated in Ukraine.

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Striped tulip fields and a windmill in the Netherlands, with a small drone flying low over the rows
International partner

Now in the Netherlands.

Cobalt Academy is partnering with Landstede MBO, a Dutch vocational institution preparing the next generation of professional drone operators.

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Landstede MBO Voltage Vessels Obsidian Aerosystems SPADA, Southern Pacific Aero-Defense Alliance PanoptesAI
What we build

Low-cost UAS and Counter-UAS, built from the field.

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0.1 Ladybug Group 1 Counter-UAS interceptor

Built to protect people on the ground from small hostile drones. Reusable or expendable.

Prototype Concept render of Ladybug, a compact four-rotor interceptor 0.2 HIVE Universal remote controller

One portable control surface for the operator, the aircraft and the mission.

Concept Concept render of HIVE, a rugged handheld controller with a large screen 0.3 GNAT Drone sniffer and radar

Handheld detection that tracks incoming FPV drones and warns the operator early.

Concept Concept render of GNAT, a handheld sensor unit with two antennas 0.4 Firefly Group 2 UAS for wildfire

Designed to track wildfires and help crews hold the line.

Early concept Concept illustration of an uncrewed fixed-wing aircraft releasing water mist near a forest fire 0.5 Diving drone Underwater UAS

An underwater drone design to track and inspect below the surface.

Early concept Concept illustration of an underwater drone above a seabed cable with fish nearby 0.6 Classified Next reveal

Something new is on the bench. More soon.

Teaser Coming soon

Images are concept renders and illustrations, not photographs of tested hardware. Stages are reported by Cobalt Academy.

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