Lynx · CS-240 · Fast Scout, Silent Watch

GOES FIRST. SEES FIRST.
CARRIES ALMOST NOTHING.

Name: Lynx CS-240
Brand: Canadian Shield
SKU: CS-240

A wheeled route-picker with thermal eyes — and a watch mode measured in days.

Route Survey · Overwatch · Silent Watch · Scout-Plus-Mule

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Patent pending Export-controlled — international transfer subject to Canadian government permits Sensor carrier — cues nothing, guides nothing, never a strike platform

50 KG

Gross vehicle mass

36 KM/H

Sprint — with ~20 m perception horizon

~45 H

Silent watch · duty-cycled watch mode

Emissions on any tier

What It Is

The Family's Light Tier —
The Grizzly, Inverted.

Lynx CS-240 is the ground family's scout: where the anchor is mass, payload and flotation, the Lynx is speed, perception and economy of presence. A 50 kg moulded-polymer shell on four independently driven wheels, with an EO/LWIR pod on a brush-shedding mast.

It protects exactly two things — the perception stack and the battery — inside a crash-protected core, with sacrificial moulded structure outboard. Everything else is replaceable at scout-tier cost, and cheap to replace only because the moulds are ours. Wheels are a decision, not a default: driveline efficiency, ride quality, quietness and tyres as a field consumable — a stalker's chassis, chosen for stated reasons.

And the honesty that anchors the platform: the 50 kg wheeled scout presses harder on the ground than the 500 kg tracked Grizzly. So the Lynx is a route-picker, not a muskeg machine — it scouts where wheels carry and reports the rest, which is exactly what the convoy behind it needs.

The Claim

Perception-limited, not power-limited.

A scout must stop short of what it has not yet classified — so its honest top speed is set by how far it reliably sees, not by its motors. Bigger motors buy nothing; better perception and lower latency buy speed directly. We publish the physics that says so, with its conditions attached.

No radio, no GPS — nothing to intercept, nothing to direction-find, nothing to jam.
Speed slaved to perception — the governor watches the sensors, not the throttle.
Protected core — the perception stack and the battery ride crash-protected; everything outboard is cheap moulded structure.

01 How It Works · See, Stalk, Deliver

THE SPEED LIMIT IS THE SENSING HORIZON

Four electric corner drives give torque from zero and graceful degradation — a Lynx driving on three wheels still limps home. Above them, the autonomy stack does the real governing: speed is slaved to perception confidence, in software, as a load-bearing safety function.

See 10 m through dust and brush, and the honest speed is ~23 km/h. See 20 m in good daylight: ~35. See 40 m on open ground: ~51. The drivetrain could sprint faster than any of it — which is why the governor watches the sensors, not the throttle. Every speed claim on this page states its perception conditions, or it isn't made.

Reporting honours the no-radio rule absolutely. On overwatch, the Lynx creeps on a fibre tether and streams in real time. On deep scout, it records — and the recording is the report, delivered by driving home or by handing a sealed data tray to the courier bay. Silent watch in between: mast up, wheels still, stack duty-cycled down to watch-mode watts, for days.

SILENT WATCH CS-240 · a scout that cannot transmit must deliver — and does

Full Specification Sheet

Every Number, Grouped for the Walk-Around.

The complete data card for the Lynx scout — dimensions, performance, endurance, sensing, guidance and compliance, grouped the way a fleet buyer compares them.

Lynx CS-240 · Fast Wheeled Scout Ground Family · Light Tier · Route-Picker

01Dimensions & Mass

Gross vehicle mass: 50 kg
Sensor / mission payload: 10 kg
Ground pressure: ≈10.2 kPa — harder on the ground than the Grizzly; route-picker by doctrine
Configuration: Wheeled 4×4 — independent electric corner drives

02Performance

Cruise / sprint: 18 / 36 km/h (5 / 10 m/s) — sprint with ~20 m perception horizon
Supported speed vs horizon: 10 m → ~23 · 20 m → ~35 · 40 m → ~51 km/h
Drive power (per corner): ~100 W continuous · ~600 W-class peak
Correction authority: Speed slaved to perception confidence — a load-bearing safety function

03Range & Endurance

Energy storage: 2 kWh LFP (~13 kg), protected core
Range — firm ground: ~137 km at 20 °C · ~82 km at −30 °C, modelled
Range — mixed soft soil: ~74 km at 20 °C, modelled
Silent watch — full stack: ~12 h, modelled
Silent watch — watch mode: ~45 h, duty-cycled watch mode, modelled

04Sensing & Payload

Sensor mast: EO + LWIR, low-light, onboard recording — perception, never targeting
Bay modules: Recon · route-survey · micro-relay · courier · passive decoy — all non-kinetic
Protected core: Perception stack and battery, crash-protected; sacrificial moulded structure outboard

05Guidance & Data

Guidance: SLAM primary · preset waypoint · fibre for creep-and-watch only — no radio, no GPS
Data return: Fibre on overwatch · physical return on deep scout — the recording is the report
Emissions: None on any tier — nothing to intercept, direction-find or jam

06Compliance

Patent status: Patent pending
Export control: Export-controlled — international transfer subject to Canadian government permits; export posture is counsel-first
Munitions classification: Sensor carrier, not a munition — no warhead, fuze, energetic material, weapon mount or targeting function in any variant
Scope: The sensors cue nothing and guide nothing; the load belongs to Grizzly CS-210 — the scout carries almost nothing by design

Range and silent-watch figures are modelled over the stated ground and temperature conditions; every speed figure states its perception horizon. The flotation inversion is printed, not buried: at ≈10.2 kPa the 50 kg wheeled scout presses harder on the ground than its 500 kg tracked mule, so it does not go everywhere the Grizzly goes — it scouts where wheels carry and reports the rest.

In the Doctrine

The Eyes Are Passive.
The Report Comes Home By Hand.

The no-radio doctrine collides hardest with reconnaissance — and the Lynx resolves it the fleet's way: emit nothing, record everything, deliver physically or by fibre. Nothing to intercept, nothing to direction-find, nothing to jam.

The carrier doctrine is built into the architecture, not just the policy: mobility sensing and the mission payload live on separate electrical, data and software boundaries. The Lynx's sensors answer "what is out there, and will the ground hold a convoy" — they cue nothing and guide nothing, and no variant carries an effector. A sensor carrier — never a strike platform. Manufacturing-wise it is the most mouldable platform in the ground family — the purest ground application of the division's tooling-first cost thesis.

Family Context

Scout plus mule — the pairing that moves the family.

The Lynx runs the route first — will the ground hold, is the route clear — and the Grizzly follows with the load. Route survey out, convoy follow back. The scout's logs feed the family's terrain-bearing question with ground truth, one proven kilometre at a time.

Deployment

A Scout Rotation, Walked Through.

One rotation, walked end to end — illustrative of how the scout is used, not a mission record.

01 · Arrival

Light Enough to Throw Forward

Fifty kilograms rides in a truck bed, on a family deck, or under a sling. At the start point the recon pod seats in the bay, the mast checks its shed-and-survive travel, and the route brief loads. In the field it charges from a Grizzly's pack — the mule feeds the scout.

02 · Work

Run, Watch, Log

The Lynx runs the route at the speed its horizon supports — quick on open ground, slow and deliberate in brush. Where the ground gets doubtful it logs bearing data for the heavy follower. Then the stalk: mast up behind a treeline, wheels still, stack dimmed to watch-mode watts, thermal eyes open for days.

03 · Recover

Deliver the Report

On overwatch the fibre already carried the picture home. On deep scout the Lynx drives back — the recording is the report — or hands its sealed tray to the courier chain. Pack swap, tyre check, lens wipe: the turnaround is minutes, because everything that wears is a cheap moulded or catalogue part.

The Ground Family · At a Glance

Scout Plus Mule.

The Lynx runs the route first — will the ground hold, is the route clear — and the Grizzly follows with the load. Route survey out, convoy follow back: the scout's logs feed the family's terrain-bearing question with ground truth, one proven kilometre at a time.

This scout

CS-240 · Fast scout

Lynx

Speed, perception and economy of presence — goes first, sees first, carries almost nothing.

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CS-210 · Family anchor

Grizzly

The 500 kg tracked mule — mass, payload and flotation. It follows the route the Lynx proves, and in the field its pack feeds the scout.

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Proof, Not Promotion

Send the Scout.
Keep the Convoy Waiting on Facts.

If your operation moves heavy things over doubtful ground — or needs quiet eyes on a point for days without a single emission — the scout conversation starts here.

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