Sentinel is a mobile, layered counter-UAS system. It senses, decides and defeats unmanned aircraft, from FPV quadcopters to one-way attack drones, and a trained operator authorizes every engagement.
Unmanned aerial threats have inverted the economics of air defense. Drones are cheap, numerous and expendable; the interceptors traditionally used against them are not. Defending against massed raids with strategic missiles is an economic defeat, even when every shot hits.
Long-range attack drones strike infrastructure and installations at very low unit cost.
Small, agile and cheap, used against forces, convoys and facilities.
Volume exhausts scarce and expensive interceptor inventories faster than they can be replaced.
Sensors, command and control, countermeasures and effectors share one air picture, one engagement chain and one support organization, across every deployment form.
Passive RF sensing, active radar and electro-optics build one air picture.
SENTINEL-C2 fuses every sensor into one picture and applies the human authorization gate.
A graduated response: electronic defeat first, then the gun, then the interceptor as an option.
SENTINEL-NET ties sensors, effectors, vehicles and command rooms into one network.
DETECT → TRACK → ENGAGE → ASSESS. Detection performance is target-size dependent. Kinetic effectors are reserved for confirmed hostile tracks.
Each step up the ladder is a deliberate operator decision. Most engagements end at the first step, at almost no marginal cost.
RF jamming of control links and satellite navigation, and GNSS spoofing to divert or land navigation-dependent drones.
A .50 cal remote weapon station with a tracker pod feeding the C2 fire solution. The kinetic effector of the base system.
A guided interceptor on the same C2 and datalink, for threats beyond gun reach and for cooperative multi-round engagements against larger targets.
A human gate on every step. Every engagement passes a hard human-authorization gate. Escalation is a deliberate operator decision, never automatic.
SENTINEL-1A is a pneumatically cold-launched, subsonic solid-rocket interceptor with a dual-mode imaging/radar seeker and a fragmentation warhead with continuous-rod ring. It is fired from a 24-round cassette-based launcher on a dedicated vehicle; cold launch enables vehicle-mounted and confined-site operation.
Interceptors share targeting data over the encrypted datalink, so several rounds can engage a larger threat cooperatively. Onboard automatic target recognition — a human authorizes every engagement.
Radar, passive RF and EO/IR sensing detect incoming drones; tracks are categorized and prioritized.
SENTINEL-C2 fuses tracks, classifies targets, predicts trajectories and proposes a response.
The operator confirms the engagement and the effector. Release requires two independent sensors; the operator keeps abort authority throughout.
The authorized effector acts: jamming or spoofing first, the remote weapon station or the interceptor when required.
The outcome is reported to the operator, who decides on any re-engagement. Every step is logged.
Five deployment forms are built from the same subsystems, so customers share one C2 core, one training pipeline and one spares pool.
Rooftop detect-and-defeat suite: RF detection and direction finding, EO/IR, jamming and spoofing, and dual-console C2.
Radar, EO/IR, RF detection, jamming and spoofing, SENTINEL-RWS and C2 for perimeters and border sites.
Two vehicles on LC79-class trucks: detection, countermeasures and C2, plus SENTINEL-RWS. An optional third vehicle adds the SENTINEL-1A launcher.
A man-portable detect, jam and spoof system for teams on foot.
Covert passive detection with drone and pilot geolocation.
Common to all five: subsystems, C2, training and spares. Training packages cover operators, maintainers and commanders, with train-the-trainer courses to build self-sustaining customer teams.
Bases, airfields and command posts, layered with existing air defense for low-altitude coverage.
Energy, utilities, transport hubs and data centers, protected around the clock.
Smuggling and surveillance drones detected and defeated along long, remote lines.
Convoys and units protected by vehicle-mounted and portable elements.
Temporary and permanent protection where collateral risk must stay lowest.
Sensors build one air picture.
Release needs two independent sensors.
A consent token for each effector, granted by the operator.
Every authorization, denial and override is logged, tamper-evident.
The defense of human life is the origin of every requirement. Our systems are defensive by design, built to neutralize threats and never to create them.
Engagement modes are hold-fire, weapons-tight and weapons-free; automatic engagement is not enabled. Loss of a link forces a safe state.
Modern tools shorten our design cycles. The engineer stays accountable, and the operator stays in command.
The Rev H design baseline was frozen in October 2026. All performance evidence to date comes from analysis and simulation; flight testing and qualification have not yet been performed.
High-fidelity simulation indicates a single-shot kill probability of roughly 0.9 at short range, rising to roughly 0.98 for a cooperative two-round engagement. These are model outputs, not yet validated by flight test.
Rev H frozen under configuration control
Guidance, structural and lethality models
C2 and fire-control verification suites passing
A non-explosive electric development demonstrator used for early flight-software work
Designed with reference to MIL-STD-810H, MIL-STD-461G, MIL-STD-464D and IEC 60529 objectives; qualification not yet performed
Interceptor and seeker validation
The roadmap is indicative and subject to the test program. No committed delivery or fielding dates are stated.
Thalon holds design authority for Sentinel. That lets us assemble, integrate and support the system where our customers need it, with their industry.
A modular architecture allows final assembly, integration and test in the customer's country, supporting industrial-participation targets.
Design authority, source data and IP held by Thalon enable structured technology transfer and local maintenance at every level.
Training academy, spares, and software and threat-library updates for the whole service life of the system.
Export control. Sentinel products are subject to export control. Exports require authorization from the competent authorities, assessed case by case.
Supply of Sentinel configurations to government customers, with training, sustainment and spares.
Co-production with local industry, progressive localization and technology transfer.
Joint requirements definition, integration with customer command systems and site-specific configurations.
Our mission is to protect civilian populations and critical infrastructure from unmanned aerial threats at a fraction of the cost of legacy missile-defense interceptors.
Defeating mass drones with effectors that cost a fraction of a legacy interceptor round.
We say what is analysis, what is simulation and what is still to be tested.
Disciplined design, line-replaceable modules and human authorization on every engagement.
Our promise. When the threat is airborne, Thalon answers with a response that is affordable, accountable and precise, and an operator authorizes every launch.
Whether you are evaluating counter-UAS options for installations, infrastructure, borders or forces on the move, our team can walk you through Sentinel and how it would fit your sites and command systems.
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