ONE SOCKET. THE MODULE DECIDES THE MISSION.

Under the fuselage sits a single payload-bay socket — one mechanical, power, thermal and data interface, built once, so a new mission is a module change, not a new airframe. Before flight, a ground crew seats one of three non-kinetic modules into that socket.

Relay lifts a partner radio to altitude, extending line-of-sight between friendly ground stations, operators and receive-only fleet platforms. Decoy presents a plausible target signature — RF presence and radar-cross-section augmentation via passive reflectors, plus a thermal element — so defences spend attention on the wrong aircraft. Electronic support is partner-supplied hardware for detecting and characterizing emissions, carried under a strict scope fence: Canadian Shield engineers the power, cooling, apertures and connector, and stops there — no waveform, frequency, or jamming method ever appears on our own drawings, counsel-first at every step.

Navigation runs the fleet's no-radio doctrine on the flight side even while the payload radiates: preset, plan-set routes are the compliant baseline, with autonomous no-GPS cueing as the partner-leaning alternative. The radiating payload is the platform's one logged exception — a one-way broadcast architecture: Raven transmits, nothing aboard listens for a reply, so there is nothing to direction-find back to the aircraft. Scheduled transmit windows, geofenced silence zones, an instant-silent command and a fully passive ferry mode mean Raven flies to station exactly as quietly as its no-radio siblings, and radiates only when the mission plan says so.

Launch is a gentle rail or catapult release — no pyrotechnics, ever — far gentler than the family's pneumatic interceptor rounds because there is no barrel to survive, only a short stroke to flying speed. Recovery stays an open trade: belly skid, net-and-wire or parachute today, collapsing to a vertical landing if a VTOL configuration is adopted.