Air, Ground, Water and Underground, and every program across them. Every one of them is a carrier: nothing in the fleet transmits by radio, and nothing guides on a link. Air, Water and Underground open to their family pages, and Ground to CDNS KAOS, the tracked platform that works it.
The Air family leads the fleet. Three programs leave the ground the same way, on shop air, from one pneumatic chain at pressures a compressor shop already runs.
Shop air pressurizes an accumulator bank. A valve releases it behind the chambered body, and the body rides that pressure out of a launch tube of the ~3.0 m class at ~30 bar. As the body passes the muzzle a fixed cam bends its four hinged trim-fin tips to a preset angle, and on a Tier 1 round that cam is the last thing to touch the flight. The CDNS UAV Platforms page carries the chain in full, program by program, with the launch figures for all three bodies.
The thesis under it is arithmetic. Trading multi-million-dollar interceptors against cheap drones loses the cost exchange, and the answer is depth. A round carrying no battery, no motor and no electronics is built almost entirely from moulded glass-filled nylon and a metal nose mass, so a miss costs a moulded round rather than a magazine.
Every body in the family is a carrier. There is no warhead, no fuze, no primer and no propellant anywhere in the Air family. Where a body has an effect at the target it is mechanical: a collision, a fouled rotor, an entangled airframe.
The lead round. A fully unpowered, tube-launched moulded body of 1.6 kg at Ø90 mm, leaving the tube at ~189 m/s and defeating an uncrewed target by collision alone. No battery, no motor, no receiver, no energetics.
The capture nose on the same round, matching Goose's envelope, mass and ~189 m/s exit exactly, so both chamber from one magazine. Stored gas inflates a net lattice that fouls rotors and entangles the airframe, taking lift and control away so a target can be recovered intact.
The powered premium interceptor: 15 kg on a Ø96 mm bore, and it refuses to stay ballistic. A tail sustain motor and a 4-axis bow-thruster ring chase the target, cued down a trailing optical fibre with a person in the loop.
Canadian Shield exports a containerized slice of the line that makes the rounds, commissioned on an allied buyer's own floor. The rounds are then born in the country that fires them.
A round that crosses an ocean costs its price plus its passage, and arrives on someone else's schedule. A round moulded an hour from its launcher costs its resin and its royalty. The Forward Manufacturing Cell moves the factory instead of the freight: moulding, assembly and proof on an allied buyer's own floor, fed by the buyer's own feedstock, on dies cut in our own 5-axis shop.
The cell exports the low-tech, non-explosive end of the line and only that. Fire control, autonomous seekers and guidance electronics stay in Canada, nothing carries a warhead or a fuze, and no energetic material exists at any point in the process. The dies stay Canadian as well. Moulds wear by design, and a worn die goes home to be re-cut on the same machines that made it.
The Forward Manufacturing Cell carries the five stations, the export fence and the commercial shape. Manufacturing carries the floor a cell is cut from: the owned 5-axis machines that cut cavity, core and inserts in-house, with the presses and the process engineer on the same floor.
The fleet's smallest domain: two moulded platforms, where the manufacturing decision and the low-signature decision are the same decision.
Seawater conductivity kills RF outright a few metres down, the same way rock kills it underground. No radio and no GPS is a design choice everywhere else in the fleet, and at sea it is the operating condition, for every side equally. An adversary's jammer spends power on a vehicle that was never listening.
An all-plastic vehicle is cheap to make at volume, and it carries no steel, so there is no magnetic anomaly for an influence sensor to read and only a weak sonar return. One decision at the tooling stage buys both.
Both platforms carry, and neither strikes. The wet bay and the cradle take sensors, tags, relays, samplers and inspection kit, and the list ends there. No warhead, no fuze, no energetic material and no mechanism whose purpose is harm. The Water family page carries both hulls, their guidance tiers and their cartridge catalogues.
A ~100 kg-class survey-and-carrier AUV built around a Ø240 mm buckling-governed pressure hull, 2.60 m overall, with a non-kinetic wet bay at the centre of buoyancy. Best range is 139 km over 42.7 h at 0.91 m/s; 1.5 m/s is a passage speed. Route survey, seabed awareness and coastal watchkeeping are the job.
A 16.34 kg / 15.95 L soft-bodied payload carrier that creeps at 0.25 m/s on a pulsed elastomeric bell. No propeller, no cavitation, no blade-rate line and no wake. It fits the CS-310's wet-bay envelope with margin and rides the larger hull as one more cartridge, released at a surveyed start point.
The one domain where the enemy of a radio link is the ground itself. Every platform here starts from that condition instead of defending against it.
Rock and soil kill an RF signal outright, so there is no receiver to defeat and no fix to spoof. One idea ties the family together: a trailing optical fibre is the guidance, the comms, the feed downhole and the breadcrumb back out, and on the drill it is the conduit product left in the bore.
CS-410 is not a machine that rides into the hole. It is a coiled-tubing micro-bore surface plant, and the only things that enter the ground are the tubing and the head. A coil reel pays out tubing into a hydraulic straightener, a clamp-and-push stroke drive advances it a fixed increment at a time, and downhole a steerable compaction head displaces the ground ahead of it. Nothing is cut loose and carried back, so there is no spoil return. The plant works a bore diameter class of ~50–150 mm at a reach of ~300–600 m per reel, with a crew of two or three who never leave the surface, and it ships in trailer, skid and air-drop configurations.
Steering a tool through ground you cannot see is a trade before it is a product. Walkover locating, wireline steering and bore-path planning are the working method of horizontal directional drilling, and Canadian Shield sits on that method through the group's own directional-drilling companies. The Underground family page carries the plant, its three configurations and every program below.
The surface plant. It pushes a steerable head where there is no hole, and the tubing that follows the head in stays as delivered conduit. Fibre guidance with a person in the loop, stroke-count odometry for distance along the bore, and no emission in any tier.
The civil twin: the same reel, the same drive and the same fibre guidance, pointed at utility ground. It pushes conduit along a planned alignment and logs conductivity, moisture and strata identification as the bore advances.
A ~25 kg tracked crawler for recon, mapping and locating in tunnels and culverts of ~450 mm diameter and above, on a ~500 m fibre spool. Its only effect is its own mass, parked in a passage too narrow to go around. Engagement autonomy does not exist in the design.
A sealed node augered into a surveyed position that then stops moving. A tri-axial geophone, an accelerometer and an acoustic sensor read what travels through ground, air and structure across years of ultra-low-power sleep-and-listen. It does not broadcast, because there is no radio in it.
A system rather than a platform: buried listening nodes strung on a dark-fibre trunk to one head-end. The pattern of arrival times across the line places a rough position and bearing. It detects, localizes and cues, and a person reviews every cue and decides. No strike authority exists in the loop.
A cylindrical carrier that rides the pipe and conduit networks already in the earth, on the same sealing discs and launcher and receiver handling as the inspection gauge it is adapted from. Flow-driven, self-propelled or tethered, selected before launch.
Domain by domain: the programs, the guidance tier each family runs, what it carries and what it never carries.
| Domain | Programs | Guidance tier | What it carries | What it never carries |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Air | Goose CS-110 · Encapsulator CS-111 · CS-120 | Tier 1 preset, set at the barrel, on Goose and Encapsulator, and CS-120's degraded mode; Tier 2 fibre primary on CS-120, operator in the loop | An inert kinetic nose mass, or a mechanical capture bay | No warhead, no fuze, no primer, no propellant. No receiver and no emitter on a Tier 1 round |
| Ground | CDNS KAOS, the tracked platform: Light, Core CS-270 and Heavy | A fibre tether to a person at a stand-off station, and nothing on that path goes over the air; offered with driving controls and without | Standardized mission modules on the deck, drawing power from the carrier's own generator or bringing their own: lifting and carrying, towing and recovery, and power off the deck | No warhead, no fuze, no energetic material. Nothing on the machine operates a weapon |
| Water | CS-310 · CS-320 | Tier 1 preset dead-reckoning; Tier 2 fibre, the workhorse; Tier 3 bounded autonomy | Sensors, tags and beacons, relays, samplers and inspection kit, one cartridge at a time | No munition in any variant |
| Underground | CS-410 · Aquifer CS-411 · CS-425 · CS-430 · Trembler Line CS-435 · CS-460 | Fibre-guided with a person in the loop by default; mapping autonomy as the ceiling; logged and offloaded where no tether fits | Conduit left in the bore, mapping and sensing payloads, buried listening nodes, and pipeline payload modules | No strike branch anywhere in the loop. No warhead, no fuze, no energetic material |
Each family's figures sit on its own family page. Radio emissions in any tier, on every row: none. No GNSS.
Every program carries a page of its own with the mechanism, the doctrine and the deployment. The programs index holds them in one place, and All programs is the same roster as a filtered index with search and family pills.
The scope is fixed across all four domains, and it was fixed before any of the drawings started.
The effect at the target is mechanical in every case, and what was loaded decides it; the carrier decides nothing. Weaponization of any platform is a question for counsel, never a product decision. Doctrine carries the four sentences in full and the authority order behind them.
One design philosophy runs under that scope, with three ways to guide a platform and no radio in any of them. Every family is built against the same ladder across all four domains, in the order Technology sets it out.
The path is computed before launch and nothing guides in flight. On the Goose CS-110 lead round that is literal: no battery, no motor, no guidance electronics. Nothing aboard can be jammed or spoofed, because nothing is aboard. Air interceptor rounds and one-way underground runs use it.
The platform trails an optical fibre and a person commands it down the wire. A physical link cannot be jammed, spoofed or direction-found, and it keeps a human in the loop by construction. This is the default tier across the fleet and the tether norm under water.
Passive onboard sensing: optical-AI on the air side, SLAM on the ground. The platform receives and does not transmit, so it needs no link and offers none to find. It is the capability ceiling, and it carries autonomy policy weight, so it is gated.
The link is designed out rather than hardened. Guidance is set at the barrel, carried down a physical fibre, or sensed passively on board, and none of the three radiates.
Both columns below answer a question a buyer would otherwise carry into the first meeting.
The refusals hold in every domain. A carrier is bought for the ground it can be put on and the person it keeps off it.
International transfer of the fleet is export-controlled, and the order of the first three steps decides the shape of everything after them.
Every enquiry is screened before any discussion. It is the first thing that happens, before any technical detail moves.
The export posture is counsel-first.
International transfer is subject to Government of Canada permits, issued per shipment. Nothing in the fleet crosses a border without one.
Domain, ground, payload, sustainment, and the audit a buyer's own inspectors will want to run. Government and ministries carries what a screened enquiry gets back and how access escalates from there.
Three doors lead in from Partners and procurement, the route in and the data room behind it. Government and ministries is the door for a ministry or an agency. Primes and OEMs is the integration and licensing route into the fleet. Suppliers is the route onto the sovereign supply-chain register.
Sovereignty sets out how Canadian Shield defines control and recoverability across design, software, data, manufacturing, supply chain and service. All fleet designs are patent pending.
Canadian Shield runs two lines under one doctrine. One is the fleet above, built here. The other takes the seat of a machine a customer already owns.
Every program on this page is a machine Canadian Shield builds. The other line is the operator for the machines a customer already runs: a removable unit that sits in the seat, works that machine's own joysticks, levers, pedals and switches, and lifts back out. It never connects to the machine's CAN bus, ECU or firmware, and one fused accessory feed is the only wire.
CDNS Autonomy carries that line in full: the seat, the dock, the safety architecture, the machines the unit is fitted to, and the two profiles it ships as.
Air, Ground, Water or Underground. The fleet is bought by domain, and by the ground that domain has to be worked in.
Name the domain, the ground and the task you cannot put a person into. The reply names the program or the platform that answers it, and the page that carries the mechanism and the data card.
Every enquiry is screened before any discussion, and the export posture is counsel-first. Enquiries is the screened desk. Contact us reaches the desk, and a person answers.
All fleet 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.
