Canadian Shield Industrial line mark The Civil Line · CS-5xx

The Work
Horses.

Machines bought to do actual work — lift the turn, spray the quarter, survey the spill. The Industrial line is the civil sibling of the defence fleet: same autonomy stack, same moulded airframes, same owned Canadian shop floor — sold on a sovereign, auditable supply chain, not on out-imaging anyone's camera gimbal.

Actively developing — pre-production CS-5xx/6xx/7xx designations Proprietary design — patent pending
The CS-500 Roster → Radio Is Allowed Up Here Program Status
Surface civil line — the one place in the estate where radio and GNSS are permitted. Never underground.
Full Marketing Package

Every Platform.
One Brochure Each.

Full-depth, public-facing sales brochures for all 42 platforms across the fleet — scroll-through walkthroughs covering mechanism, specifications, doctrine and deployment. Organized by family below.

Air · 8
Goose CS-110 Encapsulator CS-111 Matrix CS-112 Gyrfalcon CS-120 Raven CS-130 Owl CS-140 Loon CS-150 Kestrel CS-160
Ground · 6
Grizzly CS-210 Moose CS-220 Wolf CS-230 Lynx CS-240 Beaver CS-250 Wolverine CS-260
Water · 2
Orca CS-310 Jellyfish CS-320
Underground · 8
Badger CS-410 Aquifer CS-411 Ferret CS-420 Mole CS-430 Trembler Line CS-435 Muskrat CS-440 Gopher CS-450 Farell Pig CS-460
Industrial · 17
Seeder CS-510 Skimmer CS-520 Rock Scaler CS-530 Washer CS-540 Coater CS-550 Sprayer CS-560 Spot Sprayer CS-561 Dredger CS-570 Recovery CS-580 Enviro CS-590 Litter Collector CS-630 Cargo Mover CS-600 Personnel Mover CS-610 Heavy-Lift Logger CS-620 Self-Charging Dock CS-700 Relay Chain CS-710 Fibre Spool Line CS-C001
Defence · Cross-Fleet · 1
Shield Pod CS-901
The Radio Boundary — Both Halves

Same Stack.
Antennas Back On.

The no-radio doctrine governs our defence, underground and tethered platforms — no radio and no GPS in any of those designs, ever. Radio and GNSS are permitted on the civil Industrial line only: this is the surface exception, and we state it explicitly. Forcing the defence rule onto a civil product would be cargo-culting a requirement its buyers do not have.

Why It's a Feature

One Autonomy Stack, Two Postures

The Industrial line runs the same autonomy and guidance stack as the defence fleet — developed once, amortised twice. Up here the stack simply gets its radios and GNSS receivers back, because a farm quarter-section is not a jammed battlespace.

Navigation Baseline

Vote, Then Cross-Check

Baseline design: three GNSS receivers in a 2-of-3 vote — which catches receiver faults only — backed by dissimilar sources (inertial, barometric, optical, terrestrial ranging via a relay chain) for environment faults. Dual dissimilar-band radios for the link.

The Fibre Tail

Optional Here, Vital There

On this line a trailing fibre link is mission-optional and fails over to radio. On the defence line, fibre may be the only link there is. Same spool hardware, opposite dependency — that is the radio boundary expressed in one part.

Radio Up Here. Never Underground.

No radio and no GPS in any defence, underground or tethered design — that rule does not bend. The Industrial line is the surface civil exception where radio and GNSS are permitted, and only here. We publish the boundary in both directions so no buyer has to guess which side of it a product sits on.

The Organising Economics

Turnaround, Not Flight Time,
Caps the Day.

A work machine is bought for daily output, and daily output is utilisation — the fraction of the day the machine is actually working rather than being swapped, refilled and repositioned.

U = tfly / (tfly + tturn)

Chasing another ten minutes of flight time is the wrong lever if the machine then sits on a tailgate for twenty. That is why the line's commercial hinge is the Self-Charging Dock (CS-700) — precision capture plus energy and payload replenishment, pushing U toward 1 — and why a common battery-pack standard across the families is a design driver, not an afterthought. This is organising doctrine, not a measured duty cycle, and the dock's energy fork — hot-swap, fast-charge or inductive — is still open.

Utilisation, Illustrated

Where the Day Actually Goes

t·fly — workingt·turn — swap · refill · reposition

Proportions are illustrative only — not measured duty cycles. The point is structural: whichever slice you shrink, it is usually the turnaround slice that pays.

The Roster

The CS-500 Work Horses.

Every platform below is named for the work it does, and every one is stated plainly: in active engineering development, moving toward first build and first sale. CS-numbers are the line's designations; platform names are working candidates, and platform designs are held as proprietary know-how and trade secret.

CS-510 · line anchor

Seeder

Aerial reforestation — a pneumatic seed-pod launcher that re-tunes the Goose launch physics down to gentle pressures and throws biodegradable seed pods instead of interceptor rounds. The low-pressure retune is still unmodelled. Post-wildfire, forestry and municipal replanting.

in development · pre-production
CS-520

Skimmer

Oil-spill response survey — a water-domain carrier off the Orca/Jellyfish lineage that finds the spill edge and measures it. Deliberately the information layer, not the collection layer: that job belongs to Recovery, below.

in development · pre-production
CS-530

Rock Scaler

Close-proximity rock-face scaling ahead of manual crews — a contact-tolerant airframe built to touch the wall where every other aerial platform in the estate is built to avoid it.

advancing design — design package to follow
CS-540

Washer

Window and industrial washing — a reservoir and spray/brush head where a camera gimbal would normally sit. A mass-flow problem before an aviation one: a litre of water is a kilogram.

advancing design — design package to follow
CS-550

Coater

Industrial coating of towers, tanks and façades. SIG's own coatings division is flagged as a plausible internal first customer — flagged is the word: that division has not been consulted, and this is an opportunity on a list, not a commitment.

in development · pre-production
CS-560

Sprayer

Crop and vegetation liquid application — tank, boom, flow metering and drift-reduction nozzles. Carries its own stated regulatory question: ground-registered products are not automatically approved for aerial application. That is a regulator-and-counsel gate, not an engineering one.

in development · pre-production
CS-561

Spot Sprayer

Sense-and-spray weed targeting on the Sprayer airframe — machine-vision weed identification and per-nozzle valves, so chemical goes on weeds instead of on the whole field. The origin use-case is the program owner's own acreage: an internal proving ground before it is anyone's product.

The governing rule: spot-spray savings are governed by the field's infestation fraction. A headline "percent chemical saved" without that fraction is meaningless — so we do not publish one.

in development · pre-production
CS-570

Dredger

Waterway sediment and debris removal — shallow-draft hull, suction/auger head and station-keeping. A genuinely new category next to the defence fleet's wet-tunnel and boring lines, with no functional overlap.

in development · pre-production
CS-580

Recovery

Bulk spill-material collection — the execution layer Skimmer deliberately is not. The two work as a pair: Skimmer finds and measures, Recovery collects and offloads.

in development · pre-production
CS-590

Enviro

Shoreline and land environmental cleanup — the line's generalist, closing the set from seeding at 510 to remediation at 590.

in development · pre-production
The Wider Book

Movers, Docks, Relays —
The 6xx / 7xx Context.

The same series book carries heavier tiers and the infrastructure that makes the work horses earn. All designations current; all in active development.

CS-600

Cargo Mover

An uncrewed multirotor freight ladder — CM-4 / 6 / 8 / 12 — one airframe grammar, one safety chain. Tier payloads of roughly 5–25 / 25–75 / 75–200 / 200–500 kg are working assumptions, not lift models; the ~500 kg top of the ladder is an ambition, not a feasible range — on good-practice components the ladder peaks in the hex band.

CS-610

Personnel Mover

The crewed sibling (PM-8 single-seat, PM-12 two-seat) — an advancing design study that maps the certification problem; it does not claim to solve it. By the family's own motor-out arithmetic, there is no crewed tier below eight motors.

CS-620

Heavy-Lift Logger

Long-line log extraction above the Cargo Mover ceiling. The architecture fork is open three ways — electric / hybrid / true rotorcraft. The electric branch does not close: a scaled electric multirotor cannot generate the lift needed. Hybrid is selected as an energy-source direction only; the mechanical rotor family is selected with autorotation as the governing criterion — coaxial sub-configuration selected.

CS-630

Litter Collector

Streetside waste retrieval — and a plain statement of why it has no package: grasping arbitrary deformable objects is an unsolved robotics problem, not a subsystem. We name the wall instead of drawing around it.

CS-700

Self-Charging Dock

The commercial hinge of the whole line: precision capture plus energy and payload replenishment, moving utilisation toward 1. The energy fork — hot-swap / fast-charge / inductive — is open, and a common battery-pack standard across families is the driver behind it.

CS-710

Deployable Relay Chain

Relay nodes for dependable work zones with no infrastructure — a surface line only, because the doctrine forbids radio underground. Topology fork open.

CS-C001

The Fibre Spool Line

Productised payout spools (FS-S / M / L / XL working labels) serving fibre-guided platforms on both sides of the house — the one artefact that crosses the radio boundary. Environmental note: spent fibre is persistent litter, not biodegradable, and no "degradable fibre" claim is made anywhere.

Why We Win Here

Sold on Supply Chain,
Not on Spec Sheets.

The Industrial line does not try to out-image incumbent consumer-drone giants. It competes on the one thing they structurally cannot offer a Canadian operator: a sovereign, auditable supply chain on an owned Canadian manufacturing base — with Canadian support, parts availability and cold-weather readiness built in.

The regulatory context around foreign civil-drone hardware is moving, and this page does not lean on any single policy event. The case for domestically built, traceable hardware stands on its own.

owned 5-axis mould shop — existing capability
One Engine, Two Markets
The shop floor pays for itself twice.

The same 5-axis CNC shop that cuts moulds for the defence fleet cuts moulds for Seeder and Washer. Civil revenue and defence revenue draw on one tooling capability, one moulding line, one materials canon — manufacturing is the weapon, and the Industrial line is its civil pay-cheque.

The Manufacturing Thesis →
Program Maturity

Where the Line Stands

Every platform on this page is an active engineering program, moving toward first build and first sale, built on the same manufacturing base as the defence fleet, and no figure here is a specification. Platform names are working candidates with trademark availability unverified; platform designs are held as proprietary know-how and trade secret. Not defence articles as framed; counsel checks apply before any export-facing statement.

Proof, Not Promotion

Buy the Job Done,
Not the Brochure.

If you run reforestation, spraying, coating, dredging or spill-response operations in Canada and want a sovereign supply chain behind the machine — we would like the conversation at the design stage, not after.

Contact Canadian Shield → The Guidance Doctrine The Manufacturing Base