Water Systems · CS-3xx Orca line mark

Orca CS-3xx family

The water domain, counted exactly: two moulded low-signature platforms. An all-plastic hull is cheap and quiet — no steel means no magnetic anomaly and only a weak sonar return. The manufacturing story and the low-signature story are the same story. Build for cost, and you build for stealth.

in active development · pre-production proprietary design — patent pending
No Radio · No GPS The no-radio doctrine costs nothing here — seawater conductivity kills RF outright, so the water enforces it for us. Fibre-tethered guidance is the workhorse; bounded autonomy covers the long legs. There is no ballistic tier at sea.
Full Marketing Package

The Full Fleet.

Every Canadian Shield platform has a brochure like this one — same depth, same status discipline, same refusal to publish a number we cannot source. Organized by family below.

Air · 8
CS-110 · Air

Goose

No battery. No motor. No receiver. A kinetic carrier launched at ~189 m/s on shop air.

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CS-111 · Air

Encapsulator

A capture-head variant on the Goose CS-110 launch line — fouls rotors and entangles the airframe instead of striking it down.

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CS-112 · Air

Matrix

Aimed, direct-fire, tethered — the net that stays connected to the gun that threw it.

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CS-120 · Air

Gyrfalcon

Goose's launch chain, plus the power Goose leaves out — a tail motor and bow-thruster ring for mid-flight correction.

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CS-130 · Air

Raven

A moulded electric aircraft that carries the network — decoy, relay, electronic support. Non-kinetic. Recoverable.

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CS-140 · Air

Owl

A big, slow propeller and an IR-biased eye — orbiting instead of hovering, unheard, unseen, unjammed.

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CS-150 · Air

Loon

The bird that flies its whole leg without asking a satellite for a name.

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CS-160 · Air

Kestrel

The Air family's smallest body — a tube-launched, motor-cruising scout priced to lose, not to last.

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Ground · 6
CS-210 · Ground

Grizzly

Tracked. Battery-electric. 150 kg over muskeg — with nothing to jam.

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CS-220 · Ground

Moose

600 kg of freight over bad ground. Payload is the product — mobility is the constraint it is bought within.

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CS-230 · Ground

Wolf

Eight coordinated carriers. One fibre trunk. One operator. Nothing to jam.

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CS-240 · Ground

Lynx

A wheeled route-picker with thermal eyes — and a watch mode measured in days.

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CS-250 · Ground

Beaver

Tracked. Battery-electric. An anchored winch pulls roughly seven times what the tracks alone can.

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CS-260 · Ground

Wolverine

A compact tracked carrier that places self-reacting tools at the work face — the force closes on the structure, not the machine.

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Water · 2
CS-310 · Water

Orca

Persistent survey & carrier AUV — one moulded hull that surveys, carries and watches.

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CS-320 · Water

Jellyfish

A soft pulsed-jet payload carrier — slower than the current on purpose.

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Underground · 8
CS-410 · Underground

Badger

A surface plant that pushes a steerable head into ground with no line, no map, no signal.

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CS-411 · Underground

Aquifer

Coiled-tubing bore, fibre-guided — conduit installed, water table mapped, nothing to jam.

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CS-420 · Underground

Ferret

Recon, mapping and locating in existing tunnels and culverts — with a block-only interpose capability, always human-confirmed.

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CS-430 · Underground

Mole

A passive seismic and acoustic node on long-life battery — reporting only over a buried fibre link.

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CS-435 · Underground

Trembler Line

A chain of buried Mole nodes on a fibre trunk — detect, localize, cue. Nothing radiated, nothing to jam.

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CS-440 · Underground

Muskrat

Hybrid swim/crawl. Zero visibility. No diver, no radio, no GPS.

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CS-450 · Underground

Gopher

It maps, it marks, it parks. Cheap enough to send in numbers.

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CS-460 · Underground

Farell Pig

Flow-driven, self-propelled or tethered — it rides the line, it doesn't bore one.

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Industrial · 17
CS-510 · Industrial

Seeder

A pneumatic seed-pod launcher, retuned to gentleness. Pods down, evidence back.

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CS-520 · Industrial

Skimmer

A small moulded surface craft — the information and marking layer of a spill response.

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CS-530 · Industrial

Rock Scaler

A contact-tolerant aerial platform sets the hook. A ground-anchored winch does the pulling.

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CS-540 · Industrial

Washer

A caged, umbilical-fed washing platform. Water up the line, evidence back down.

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CS-550 · Industrial

Coater

An umbilical-fed applicator platform. The pressure stays on the ground; the machine flies the last few hundred millimetres.

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CS-560 · Industrial

Sprayer

Full-width boom, drift-reduction nozzles, a metered rate held across the pass. The broadcast tool for the uniform job.

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CS-561 · Industrial

Spot Sprayer

Machine vision finds the target; only that nozzle opens. Built to cut total product volume per acre.

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CS-570 · Industrial

Dredger

A trailerable uncrewed dredger for ponds, marinas, lagoons and channels.

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CS-580 · Industrial

Recovery

An uncrewed collection craft for the debris and spill material that floats.

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CS-590 · Industrial

Enviro

A tracked, teleoperated manipulator platform for shoreline and land cleanup — reach, load and slope, enforced as one envelope.

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CS-630 · Industrial

Litter Collector

An uncrewed multirotor built to find litter, take only litter, and prove it did.

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CS-600 · Industrial

Cargo Mover

An uncrewed VTOL cargo family — four sizes of the same machine, from toolbox to bulk lift.

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CS-610 · Industrial

Personnel Mover

A crew-carrying VTOL work machine. Two tiers — PM-8 single-seat, PM-12 two-seat.

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CS-620 · Industrial

Heavy-Lift Logger

An uncrewed coaxial hybrid rotorcraft for long-line log extraction — turn after turn, hour after hour.

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CS-700 · Industrial

Self-Charging Dock

A docking and replenishment station that lets a working fleet return, recharge and redeploy without a hand touching it.

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CS-710 · Industrial

Relay Chain

A deployable chain of relay nodes — command, telemetry and position augmentation for civil fleets working past the edge of the network.

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CS-C001 · Industrial

Fibre Spool Line

Guidance-fibre consumable cassettes — a physical tether option, alongside or instead of radio.

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Defence · 1
CS-901 · Defence

Shield Pod

A canopy-retarded delivery pod: land on a crumple zone, right itself, open, release the carrier system.

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01 · The Family

The Smallest Family,
Counted Exactly.

Orca is the youngest domain in the fleet, and we say so: exactly two platforms, a first engineering pass on each, marine engineering hires still ahead. It earns its place because the doctrine maps onto water with almost no translation — cheap moulded carriers, no radio — and because the low-metal hull that makes the fleet affordable is the same hull that makes it quiet. The doctrine the rest of the fleet chooses, the ocean enforces.

Doctrine Fit

Physics Enforces the Doctrine

Seawater conductivity kills RF outright — the same way rock kills it underground. The no-radio, no-GPS doctrine that is a design choice in the air is the operating reality at sea. Fibre and bounded autonomy are the only links that work under water, and they are the links we already build around. Nothing to jam. Nothing to spoof.

Signature

One Story, Told Twice

An all-plastic moulded hull is cheap to make at volume. It also carries no steel — so there is no magnetic anomaly for an influence sensor to read, and only a weak sonar return. One moulding decision buys both. The manufacturing story and the low-signature story are the same story.

Guidance At Sea

Fibre Is the Workhorse

Tier 2 fibre-tethered guidance — unjammable, human-in-the-loop, and the established norm in this medium — carries the working missions. Bounded autonomy covers the legs beyond the tether. There is no ballistic tier at sea, and platform-level tier selection is still open.

02 · Family Anchor

Orca CS-310
Persistent Survey & Carrier

An advancing design for a persistent survey-and-carrier AUV — the long, patient end of the family spectrum. Route survey, seabed awareness, coastal watchkeeping: cover distance and time, carry a payload cartridge, come back with the picture. A first engineering pass exists; the baseline below is not yet finalized and awaiting ratification — not a decided design, and we state that rather than hide it.

The Trade-off

Orca trades acoustic signature for range: a screw is audible, and we accept that for the survey role. The low-metal moulded hull keeps the weak-return benefit; the audible screw is the stated price of covering ~190 km-class legs. The quiet end of the spectrum is Jellyfish, below — the two platforms bracket the family on purpose. Reach on one end, silence on the other.

03 · The Quiet End

Jellyfish CS-320
Creep, Don't Sprint.

A bio-mimetic pulsed-jet payload carrier that wins by arriving unnoticed. The elastomeric bell is the propulsor, the fairing and the contact-compliance in one moulded part — no screw, no cavitation, no blade-rate line, no wake. Missions: covert sensor and beacon emplacement, hull and harbour monitoring, comms-relay delivery, low-signature reconnaissance. The civil twin is the same machine: hull and pier inspection, environmental sampling.

Three Suppressed Signatures — A Design Goal

No screw and no cavitation (acoustic), no steel (magnetic), near-ambient electronics (thermal): three suppressed signatures, by design. That is a design goal, not a tested property — nothing has been measured, and this page will never call anything undetectable.

Known Unknowns, Stated

What We Have Not Solved

Bell fatigue over millions of pulse cycles, and elastomer stiffening in near-0 °C water — both open. Fork A/B structural options are unresolved, the guidance tier is still to be modelled, and nothing is costed.

04 · Roster

Two Platforms.
That Is the Whole List.

Designations per the program canon; platform names are working candidates. Both platforms are in active development — a first engineering pass on each, baselines not yet ratified.

PlatformRoleKey figuresStatus
Orca CS-310 Persistent survey-and-carrier AUV — route survey, seabed awareness, coastal watchkeeping. Family anchor. Ø250 mm × 2.0 m buckling-governed hull · ~100 kg class · 100 m design depth · 20 kg / 20 L bay · ~35 h / ~190 km screening
in development
Jellyfish CS-320 Small covert underwater payload carrier — pulsed-jet creeper; sensor, tag, relay and civil inspection payloads only. ~12 kg / ~12 L working point · ~32 cm bell · 30 m depth target · 0.25 m/s creep · days-class hotel-limited loiter
in development

The nearer-term wet platform in the fleet is Muskrat (CS-440) on the Underground page — the flooded-culvert specialist that bridges the Badger family to the water line.

The Radio Boundary — Stated Plainly

No Radio, Both Halves

No radio and no GPS in any defence, underground or tethered design — the doctrine rules the link out, and under water the physics enforces it anyway. Radio and GNSS are permitted on the civil Industrial line only: it is the surface exception, and we say so explicitly.

Proof, Not Promotion

Two Platforms.
One Manufacturing Story.

If you work in maritime survey, harbour infrastructure or coastal awareness — for Canada or its allies — talk to us now, while the baseline is still on the drawing board. This is the stage where a customer's requirements shape the platform, not the brochure.

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