CDNS UAV Platforms is Goose CS-110, Encapsulator CS-111, CS-120 and the launch platforms that fire them. Three kinds of reader go on from here; the rest marks what the line is not, and how the conversation after it starts.
A procurement reader often lands here before the round or the launcher. What follows is the shape of the conversation that comes next, and the desk it reaches.
Every enquiry about this line reaches the same desk every enquiry at Canadian Shield reaches. There is no second route built for this line alone.
The line is three programs and the platforms that fire them: Goose CS-110, an unpowered interceptor round; Encapsulator CS-111, a capture nose on the same round; and CS-120, a second and heavier class on its own launcher. Carriers, not munitions: no warhead, no fuze, no energetic material, and nothing on this line that operates a weapon. The line as a whole is on the hub; this page is the door into a conversation about it, not a summary of it.
Three kinds of reader get real use from the pages under this line. Everyone else is better served by one of the site's other doors.
Nothing about this line is bought off this page. Every conversation starts the way every conversation at Canadian Shield starts: screened, counsel-first, and against the published record.
A screened enquiry is the one route onto this line, the same one every other program on this site uses, and nothing is discussed before the screen. Enquiries sets out the desk in full: one team, one privacy notice, and a person who answers in writing.
Export posture is counsel-first. A shipment of export-controlled goods leaves Canada only under a permit issued for that shipment, and the posture is fixed before a conversation starts, not during it. Government and Primes and OEMs carry the tiers a screened enquiry moves through once it opens; this page only opens the door.
A configuration is three decisions, not one, and none of them carries a count, a price or a date on this page.
A conversation about this line usually settles on three things: a launch platform, a magazine of rounds, and the noses that go into them. None is specified here. A configuration is scoped against the ground, the task and whatever a customer already runs.
LCH-110-32 on its skid frame, the single-tube LAUNCHER LCH-110, or the static pedestal mount. Each is a launch platform, never a UAV, named for what it is built to do. The launch platform carries the detail.
Goose CS-110 and Encapsulator CS-111 share one bore and one magazine pitch, so a round count and a mix of heads are one decision, not two. Goose and Encapsulator carry the figures.
CS-120 is a heavier class on its own launcher, with its own bore and pressure, scoped as a separate line item, not an upgrade to the round above. CS-120 carries the figures.
Three things travel from the customer's side to the launcher, and none of them arrives in a magazine of rounds.
Everything else is Canadian Shield's to build and to describe: the round, the nose and the launcher itself. What crosses from the customer's side is short, and it is the same three things for every configuration on this line, from the single-tube launcher to the pedestal mount. Guidance on this line sets out what the round does, and does not, receive after the muzzle.
Whichever of the line's pages brought you here, the next step is the same: a screened enquiry, read by the people who run the program.
Name the ground, the task and whatever you already run. Say which of the three programs and which platform you are scoping, or say you are not sure yet and let the desk sort that out. The reply comes in writing, from a person, against the published record for the program concerned.
The line as a whole is on the CDNS UAV Platforms hub. The lead round is on Goose, the platform that fires it is on the launch platform, and the safety architecture is on Safety on the launch line.
All CDNS UAV Platforms designs are patent pending; international transfer is export-controlled and subject to Canadian government permits taken per shipment, and nothing on this page is an offer.
