Goose CS-110 needs no link because it carries nothing that could use one. Encapsulator CS-111 and CS-120 each add a fibre, for reasons tied to two different missions, and a third tier sits above both, gated by policy rather than mass. Every tier this line can carry is named here and held to one rule: nothing aboard transmits.
No radio and no GPS in any Canadian Shield design. This page applies that rule to three programs that fire from a tube, tier by tier.
The fleet-wide rule is exact, and a launched round gets no exception to it: no radio and no GPS in any Canadian Shield design, nothing in the fleet transmits by radio, nothing guides on a link. Technology sets that rule out for all four domains; this page holds it against the three programs on this one.
The precision matters as much as the rule does. A physical optical fibre paid out behind a round is a wire, not a wireless link: it cannot be jammed, tapped or found by a receiver, because it radiates nothing to find. Where this line uses a fibre, the doctrine holds exactly as stated, with nothing carved out of it. What follows is which of the three programs uses which channel, and, tier by tier, what a round is given and what it is never given.
That is the whole of the radio rule. Every tier below is one more way of staying inside it.
Goose CS-110 is set before it leaves the tube. After that there is nothing to guide it, and nothing for a jammer to find.
Goose CS-110 is the plainest expression of the doctrine on this line. The launcher lays the shot and computes the trajectory before the arm key turns; the round leaves the muzzle on that arc, and nothing after that is added, corrected or sent. The reason is exact: no battery, no motor, no receiver, no servo, no sensor, no indicator, no initiator. There is no wiring harness on the round, because there is nothing on it to wire.
It is the cheapest possible answer to jamming: a round with no receiver has no channel into it at any point after it is loaded, so there is nothing for a jammer to reach. Six fixed fins hold the arc the launcher already computed; the Goose CS-110 page carries the round part by part.
Encapsulator CS-111 and CS-120 both add a fibre where Goose has nothing, and each does it for a different reason.
Encapsulator CS-111 shares Goose's tube, mass, bore and exit velocity, but its release cannot be preset: the capture nose has to open at a standoff measured against a target closing at up to 200 m/s, and a round primed before the shot cannot know where that target will be. Fibre is the recommended primary tier for exactly that reason: a person, watching the geometry close, times the release down the wire.
CS-120 carries the fibre a step further. It is the first round in the family with a battery, a motor and a flight computer aboard, and therefore the first with a real on-round wiring harness, built by Wired Industries. None of that harness carries a radio; it carries the servos, the sustain motor and the payout spool the fibre tier depends on, and its guidance tier is primary rather than a fallback, with the preset tier held in reserve as the degraded mode.
Nothing about a fibre tether is what the radio doctrine was written against. There is no antenna and no frequency to jam on either round; there is a length of glass paying out behind it.
A further tier sits above the wire: sensing that needs no link at all. On this line it answers to counsel before it answers to a program.
Above fibre guidance sits a further tier: a round that senses for itself, with nothing paid out behind it and nothing sent to it in flight. It is not attached to a program on this line. Where onboard sensing would take over a decision a person currently makes, that question is treated as a policy matter first, run past counsel, before it is treated as an engineering one, and a human arm action stays mandatory for every shot regardless of tier.
That order does not change because a sensor grows more capable. A tier that could take a decision away from a person is exactly the one that gets the most scrutiny before it is used, not the least.
One ladder, one launch discipline, and a different point on it for each program this line fires.
| Program | Where it sits |
|---|---|
| Goose CS-110 | Tier 1 only. No battery, no motor, no receiver, no servo, no sensor, no indicator, no initiator aboard for any tier above preset to attach to. |
| Encapsulator CS-111 | Tier 2 fibre, recommended as the primary tier, because the capture release is timed against a closing target a preset round cannot see coming. |
| CS-120 | Tier 2 fibre as the primary tier, with Tier 1 preset held as the degraded mode. |
A third tier sits above all three and is not attached to a program on this line.
Bearing, range and height become a laying solution before the arm key turns. What happens after the muzzle depends on the tier, never on the launcher.
A cue, bearing, range and height, from a fire-control interface or entered by hand, becomes a laying solution: a trajectory computed with lead for a moving target and checked against the mount's own travel limits. The same software stores a boresight offset against a fixed reference so the solution repeats shot to shot. The mount lays to the solution, the console completes the arm sequence, and all of that is the launcher's work, done before the valve opens.
After the shot, the launcher's part is finished. A Tier 1 round carries the arc it was given and nothing else. A Tier 2 round stays reachable, but by the wire paying out behind it, not by the launcher reaching back down the tube. Either way, nothing further comes from the barrel the round just left. The full loop, cue to reload, is on The engagement; the tube and the mount that do the laying are on The launch platform.
CS-120's mass budget carries a fibre payout spool at half a kilogram. What that spool has to survive is the same launch stroke the airframe is built for.
Wherever this line uses Tier 2, something has to carry the fibre and pay it out smoothly enough that the wire never snags, kinks or breaks the connection it exists to keep. On CS-120 that job belongs to a dedicated payout spool: a separate half-kilogram line in the round's own mass budget, distinct from its 0.40 kg battery pack, reeling fibre out through the same launch shock the airframe is built to survive. That shock peaks far gentler than Goose's own, about 240 g against 1,159 g, but it still has to be reeled through cleanly.
The requirement is mechanical. A payout mechanism that fails under shock does not just lose a channel: on a fibre-primary round it removes the only guidance the round has, and the requirement is carried at the airframe's own design load rather than treated as a lesser problem.
There is no satellite receiver anywhere on this line. Technology names the fleet's dependencies; here is what that means for a round in flight.
| Absent on this line | What continues |
|---|---|
| A GNSS receiver on any round | The launcher's own laying solution, computed and stored from a fixed cue before the shot, not a satellite fix carried in flight. |
| A radio command link | A physical fibre, on the tiers that carry one. Nothing radiated, on every tier. |
The same discipline Technology sets out for the whole fleet, applied to a round in the tube.
Losing the fibre on a Tier 2 round is not a network fault to route around. Technology states the fleet rule: a lost link ends in a defined stop or degrade, never an uncontrolled continuation. On this line that means falling back to the preset tier already built into the round, not a search for another channel. A round that falls back still flies the arc the launcher already computed; nothing about losing the wire reaches back into that computation.
A sceptical reader wants the tiers before anything else. What follows is who gets use from them, and what the ladder refuses.
A conversation here starts with the task, and the tier follows from it. Nothing on this page is an offer.
Bring the release timing, the standoff, or the link a task can and cannot tolerate, and this ladder names the program that answers it. CDNS UAV Platforms carries the three programs side by side; Goose CS-110 and CS-120 carry each round's own figures; The engagement carries the loop this ladder sits inside. Every enquiry is screened, export posture is counsel-first, and permits are taken per shipment.
Nothing on this page is an offer, a commitment or a representation to any government body. Patent pending. International transfer is subject to Canadian government permits taken per shipment; export posture is counsel-first.
