Every head Canadian Shield builds for this line mounts to the same register, the same shoulder and the same three-lug bayonet. The joint is the subject here: what crosses it, what never does, and why one interface carries two very different noses without changing the round underneath them.
Register, shoulder and bayonet are the whole joint. Nothing about them changes between a kinetic nose and a capture nose, because the round behind them never does either.
Every head on this line — the steel nose that defeats by collision and the capture nose that catches instead — mounts to one mechanical interface, and it is the same interface on both. A spigot register finds the bore, a shoulder seats the head square to it, and three bayonet lugs lock it there under launch load. Nothing about the joint changes between a head built to survive the muzzle and one built to open a bay a few milliseconds after impact.
The interface is the boundary the rest of this page is about. It is sized to carry load, and load only.
| Feature | Value |
|---|---|
| Register | Ø64.9 mm spigot |
| Shoulder | Ø70 mm |
| Retention | Three-lug bayonet |
The nose interface, in the three dimensions that hold across every head.
Mass, not shape, is what a launched round actually feels. So every head on this line is built to the same interface mass, and the round flies the same arc no matter which one is loaded.
A kinetic nose is a solid steel slug. A capture nose is a bottle of stored gas, a packed envelope and a release. The two weigh differently by their nature, so each is ballasted at the interface to the same baseline mass before it ever reaches the launcher — the round is not tuned per head, the head is built to the round.
The nose accounts for 77% of the round's total mass on this line, by a wide margin the largest single item in the budget. That fraction is what a launched, finned body needs forward of its centre of gravity to fly straight, and it is where the interface sits: far enough forward that everything heavier than structure stays on the head's side of the joint.
Swap the nose and the round's balance does not move — the only way one launcher, one flight and one set of fins can serve heads that do entirely different jobs at the target.
The joint carries load in one direction and nothing else in any direction: no power, no signal, nothing to arm. That is the boundary between a carrier and a munition, drawn in hardware.
The register, the shoulder and the three bayonet lugs carry the launch load into whichever head is mounted, and that is all they carry. There is no pin, no contact and no channel through the joint for power or for a signal. No electrical conductor is routed through the nose interface, and that is a description of the round rather than a caution against a mistake: there is nowhere for a conductor to go. Goose CS-110 has no wiring harness because it has no electrical system to wire, and the interface every head shares is built to the same rule: structure crosses it, and nothing else does.
That is the doctrine this whole line is built to, stated at the one joint where it would first be broken if it were ever going to be. No warhead, no fuze, no energetic material of any kind crosses this interface or sits behind it, on any head this family builds. Every product on this page is a carrier. None of them operates a weapon.
The rule is a property of the hardware, not a policy on top of it: there is no power path and no signal path through the interface for anything to use.
The oldest effect on the line is also the simplest: a machined mass, moving fast, hits something far lighter than itself.
The kinetic nose behind this interface is a single machined slug: AISI 4140 steel, normalized, to ASTM A29/A331. It is not shaped to hold anything — no cavity, no fill, no chemistry of any kind. The whole idea is one line: the airframe is a carrier, the steel is the effect, and there is no chemistry anywhere in the round.
At the target, the nose defeats by collision alone: mass and speed, nothing else. The pressure, the stroke and the exit speed that get it there belong to Goose CS-110's own page; this page stops at the joint the steel is bolted behind.
Encapsulator swaps the effect and keeps everything else. The register, the shoulder and the bayonet do not change; what is built behind them does.
Encapsulator CS-111 mounts to the same interface as Goose CS-110 — the same register, the same shoulder, the same three-lug bayonet. Everything from the tail fins forward to the nose bulkhead is Goose CS-110, unchanged; everything forward of that bulkhead is new: a packed capture envelope, a stored-gas bottle, a dispersal head and a mechanical release.
The vocabulary for that release is deliberate. The correct term is a standoff release or a deployment trigger — a mechanism that opens a bay, not one that initiates anything. The payload self-pressurizes for the launch stroke, so the release has to be a positive mechanical action rather than a pressure-triggered one: a pressure-triggered release would let go on its own, under that same self-pressurization, before the round ever reached the target.
One way a capture nose releases is by collapsing on contact. It carries no designation of its own, because it is not a fourth product on this line.
On contact, the nose structure collapses along its own axis, and the collapse itself pulls the release that lets go of the net or the canopy — the same positive mechanical action described above, run entirely by the geometry of the impact rather than by a separate switch. There is no initiator in it, no electrical path and no proximity sensing: the trigger is the contact, nothing more.
It is the mechanism the capture noses use to open, not a head in its own right, and it carries no CS designation of its own.
The boundary holds from the launcher's side of the joint too: pressure and stroke cross it, and nothing else does, whichever head is mounted.
The launcher aims and pressurizes; the interface carries the load of that stroke into whichever nose is mounted, and nothing else passes between them. What the launcher itself does with that pressure, tube by tube, is on the launch platform's own page.
From the muzzle on, the round is on its own whichever nose it carries: six fixed fins, live from the first metre, and a flight the launcher no longer touches.
One joint, and the two questions it actually answers: what can cross it, and what a reader should look up on the pages that own the rest.
The interface is fixed. What a customer wants to put behind it is where the conversation starts, and nothing on this page is an offer.
Every conversation about a new head starts at the same three numbers: the register, the shoulder and the mass baseline this page names. Bring the mission, and the answer says whether it can live behind this interface without changing the round that carries it. Every enquiry is screened before any detail is discussed.
The round this interface belongs to is Goose CS-110. The capture nose already built to it is Encapsulator CS-111. The rest of the line is on CDNS UAV Platforms.
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.
