RockDome Defense Systems // Layered counter-UAS


RockDome develops low-cost hard-kill systems for fixed-site and dismounted defense against FPV and other low-altitude drone threats.
Built around inert, locally available aggregate ammunition.

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Threat environment // Proliferation

The threat has scaled down-market

Low-cost drones have compressed the barrier to entry for surveillance, harassment, and one-way attack missions. The result is a wider threat set, faster iteration, and more pressure on defenders.

Low-cost drone threat proliferation diagram
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Threat environment // Guidance diversity

Not every drone can be jammed

RF-dependent drones remain vulnerable to electronic attack, but tethered, autonomous, and pre-programmed systems reduce the reliability of purely soft-kill approaches. Defenders need a guidance-agnostic layer.

Drone guidance modes and RF-denied threats diagram
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Threat environment // Cost exchange

Defense must scale economically

Using high-cost interceptors against low-cost drones breaks the cost curve in the attacker’s favor. Effective defense needs sustainable engagement economics and replenishment.

Counter-drone cost exchange comparison diagram
LAYER: FIXED-SITE + DISMOUNTED
ROLE: FIRST-LINE / LAST-LINE
AMMUNITION: INERT AGGREGATE
EFFECT: GUIDANCE-AGNOSTIC HARD-KILL
DEPLOYMENT: FACILITIES + OPERATORS

A layered drone threat requires a layered physical response.

Why kinetic defense

RockDome is built around a simple premise: when attackers can vary guidance, saturate airspace, and exploit cost asymmetry, defenders need a hard-kill layer that is practical to deploy and practical to sustain. Aegis protects facilities and infrastructure. Interceptor gives dismounted operators a last-line option when perimeter or standoff layers are unavailable, exhausted, or ineffective.

PRINCIPLE 01

Guidance-agnostic defeat

Kinetic interception does not depend on breaking a control link. It remains relevant against RF- guided, autonomous, and tethered threats because the effect is physical, not electronic.

PRINCIPLE 02

Favorable engagement economics

By using inert, locally available aggregate as ammunition, RockDome is designed for replenishment and scale rather than expensive, specialized interceptors.

PRINCIPLE 03

Layered deployment

Aegis extends protection around fixed sites. Interceptor extends it to the individual operator. Together they support a first-line and last-line defense model.

Products // Layered defense

Two products. One operating logic.

Fixed-site defense

Aegis

Ground-mounted counter-UAS system for facilities, bases, and critical infrastructure. Detects, tracks, and physically defeats low-altitude drone threats.
Dismounted defense

Interceptor

Rifle-mounted last-line device that allows operators to rapidly use local aggregate against close-range drone threats.