Wolf · CS-230 · Coordinated Carrier Pack

THE PRODUCT IS
THE PACK — NOT THE UNIT

Name: Wolf CS-230
Brand: Canadian Shield
SKU: CS-230

Eight coordinated carriers. One fibre trunk. One operator. Nothing to jam.

Distributed Cargo · Recon Pods · Relay Nodes · Route Survey

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Patent pending Export-controlled — international transfer subject to Canadian government permits Coordinated carriers — never a strike platform

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Coordinated units in the pack — one operator

20 KG

Per-unit bay payload — ~160 kg distributed per pack

96.2 %

6-of-8 pack availability at 0.90 per unit — binomial upper bound

Radio or GPS emitters — on any unit, in any tier

What It Is

A Pack That Degrades Gracefully
Where a Single Vehicle Fails Absolutely.

Wolf CS-230 is the ground family's coordination tier: a pack of eight small, deliberately plain tracked carriers — 80 kg apiece — whose value lives not in any one hull but in what eight of them do together.

Each unit is a moulded GF-nylon tub sized for numbers: cheap to build because the chassis is a moulding, not a weldment. Each carries 20 kg in a single standardized bay — a dimensional subset of the family deck standard — so a pack fields a mix: recon pods, relay nodes, cargo panniers, route-survey packs, passive markers, recovery kit. Eight units, ~160 kg distributed, and no single loss that breaks the mission.

Coordination is the engineering. The leader trails one optical fibre trunk back to the operator; members join by short inter-unit spokes. One person supervises the pack — authorizing tasks, not steering eight joysticks — while every unit holds the family rule for itself: uncertain, or cut off? Stop and hold.

The Claim

Depth on the ground: the salvo math, restated for carriers.

Need six of eight units to deliver? At 90% per-unit availability the pack answers the mission ~96% of the time — resilience bought with numbers, not exquisite hardware. We also publish the caveat: that binomial assumes independent failures and is stated as the upper bound it is.

No radio, no GPS — coordination by fibre, never by radio; no RF module of any kind, on any unit.
≈4.4 kPa on the ground — half the family anchor's footprint; the ground that carries the mule carries the pack.
One bay, six module types — recon, relay, cargo, survey, marker, utility — all strictly non-kinetic.

01 How It Works · Coordination Without Radio

ONE TRUNK, SHORT SPOKES — A CHOREOGRAPHED PACK

The coordinated drone clouds of the literature need spectrum. The Wolf refuses spectrum — so its coordination is built from things that cannot be jammed: fibre, clocks and perception.

The leader carries the long optical trunk to the operator — a few kilograms of fibre on one unit instead of tens across a star. Members hang off short inter-unit spokes: cut one spoke and you lose one unit's link, not the pack; lose the leader and the pack falls back to its autonomous behaviors and holds. Bandwidth and latency over fibre are effectively free — the engineering cost is mechanical: payout, snag and line-crossing, handled in hardware rather than in spectrum.

Beneath the links sits a quiet design truth: on a small autonomous unit, the pack's mind must be cheap in watts. On firm ground a Wolf spends more energy thinking than driving — so compute-power engineering is range engineering, and the power-state architecture is a first-class design object.

PACK TOPOLOGY CS-230 · a spoke cut costs one unit — never the pack

Full Specification Sheet

Every Number, Grouped for the Walk-Around.

The complete data card for the Wolf — unit numbers and pack numbers alike: dimensions, mobility, power, coordination, payload and compliance, grouped the way a fleet buyer compares them.

Wolf CS-230 · Coordinated Carrier Pack Ground Family · Coordination Tier

01Dimensions & Mass

Pack composition: 8 coordinated units · mixed modules
Unit gross mass: 80 kg
Unit hull class: ~0.8–1 m moulded GF-nylon tub
Configuration: Small tracked carrier — the chassis is a moulding, not a weldment

02Performance & Mobility

Cruise: 2.0 m/s
Nominal ground pressure: ≈4.4 kPa (~0.63 psi) — half the family anchor
Range — firm ground, 20 °C: ~52 km
Range — firm ground, −30 °C: ~31 km
Range — deep snow / muskeg, 20 °C: ~20 km — a tactical-radius vehicle
Mission radius (pack): 3 km — inside the winter muskeg case with margin

03Drive & Power

Drive power (per side): ~250 W continuous · ~1 kW-class peak
Energy storage (per unit): 2 kWh heated LFP (~15 kg — a one-person swap)
Compute budget: On firm ground a unit spends more energy thinking than driving — power-state architecture is a first-class design object

04Coordination & Control

Coordination media: One optical fibre trunk (leader) · short inter-unit spokes — no spectrum in the loop
Fibre budget: Trunk ~3 km · spokes ~100 m — ~3.7 km per pack, vs ~24 km for a star topology
Supervision: One operator — authorizes tasks, does not steer eight joysticks
Pack availability: 96.2% for 6-of-8 at 0.90 per unit — binomial upper bound, independent failures assumed
Loss-of-link rule: Stop and hold — leader lost, the pack holds; spoke cut, one unit holds
Emissions: None — no radio, no GPS, no RF module of any kind

05Payload & Modules

Unit bay: 20 kg in one standardized bay — ~160 kg distributed per pack
Bay interface: Dimensional subset of the family deck standard — pack modules and family modules grow from one interface
Module types: Recon · relay · cargo · survey · marker · utility — all non-kinetic

06Materials & Construction

Hull: Moulded GF-nylon tub — the only ground platform small enough for the hull itself to be a moulding
Tooling: Moulded on the division’s own tooling
Battery exchange: ~15 kg pack — swapped by hand, one person

07Compliance

Patent status: Patent pending
Export control: Export-controlled — international transfer subject to Canadian government permits; export posture is counsel-first
Classification: Coordinated carriers — never a strike platform; non-kinetic at the unit and at the pack
Energetic material: None — no warhead, fuze, energetic material, weapon mount or RF emitter on any unit; no pack behavior composes one

Pack availability assumes independent unit failures and is printed as the upper bound it is. Every range figure states its ground class and season; the deep-snow figure is the one the 3 km pack mission radius is sized against.

In the Doctrine

Salvo Depth,
On Tracks.

The fleet's thesis is that depth beats exquisiteness — many cheap, manufacturable units where the loss of one changes nothing. The Wolf is that thesis on the ground: the only ground platform small enough for the hull itself to be a moulding, straight off the division's own tooling.

And the fence is drawn tighter here than anywhere: the family rule — carriers, not munitions — applies to the unit and to the pack as a whole. Coordinated behavior is a logistics and sensing multiplier, nothing else; no unit carries an emitter, an effector or a weapon of any kind, and no pack behavior can compose one. Coordinated carriers — never a strike platform. That is the design, not a caption.

Family Context

The pack runs errands the big hulls can't split.

A Grizzly chooses one module; a Wolf pack fields a mix — sensing here, cargo there, a relay on the ridge. It surveys routes ahead of the family's heavy movers, lays short fibre legs, and hauls distributed loads no single small vehicle could. The bay is a subset of the family deck standard, so pack modules and family modules grow from one interface.

Deployment

A Pack Mission, Walked Through.

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

01 · Arrival

Eight Units, One Trailer

The pack arrives as freight — eight units and their swap packs on one light trailer or a Grizzly-family deck. At the drop point the modules are mixed for the task: two recon pods, a relay, four cargo panniers, a survey pack. Clocks sync at the physical dock. Nothing transmits.

02 · Work

The Choreography

The leader pays out the trunk; members spoke on and spread to their lanes inside the 3 km mission radius. One operator authorizes tasks over the fibre; units execute and report back down the line. A unit that bogs or falters stops and holds — and the pack re-tasks around it, which is the entire point of being eight.

03 · Recover

Muster, Respool, Rotate

Tasks done, the pack musters on the leader, respools its spokes and walks the trunk home. Packs swap by hand — 15 kg, one person. A held unit is recovered by its packmates' recovery kit or a follow-on carrier; its position is known to the metre, because it stopped where it stood.

The Ground Family · At a Glance

The Pack Among the Six.

Wolf is the coordination tier of the six-platform ground family. Five siblings share its chassis logic, deck standard and no-radio guidance tiers — same doctrine, different jobs.

This pack

CS-230 · Numbers

Wolf

Eight coordinated carriers on one fibre trunk — distributed cargo, sensing and relay that degrade gracefully.

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CS-210 · The anchor

Grizzly

The heavy all-terrain mule — its deck standard, console and safety chain are engineering the family buys once.

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CS-220 · Bulk

Moose

Hauls bulk.

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CS-240 · Scout

Lynx

Scouts ahead.

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CS-250 · Groundwork

Beaver

Works the ground.

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CS-260 · Access

Wolverine

Carries the access tools.

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Proof, Not Promotion

One Vehicle Is a Loss.
A Pack Is a Statistic On Your Side.

If your mission survives on distributed logistics, sensing and relay — and cannot depend on spectrum — the pack conversation starts here.

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Full Marketing Package

The Rest of the Fleet.

Every Canadian Shield platform has a brochure like this one — same depth, same status discipline, same refusal to publish a number we cannot source. Organized by family below.

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