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UAS navigation @fdotinc | defense prime lover
San Franciscoooo
Joined May 2025
I’m Rohil. I’m building navigation for military drones in gps denied environments. In 2024 I dropped out of university with no money and no plan, and moved into a section 8 apartment with 4 felons as roommates. I didn’t have money to eat so I would steal ramen and Red Bull
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GPS-jamming is a massive problem on modern battlefields; we just cracked it. I'm a physics+aerospace dropout, and my co-founder is an ivy league cs student(D1 fencer). For less than $600 we've built L-NAV, a dual-use unjammable replacement to GPS for military drones:. • allows
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Numbers begin to get silly when your counter UAS costs $35k per deployment and the target is $700.
shahed-136 type drones (piston engine one way attack) might be in trouble between this and Ukraine doing FPV drone-derived interceptors. Kind of leaves an open question of what will actually tackle the very low end (eg FPV).
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If anduril beats general atomics for CCA i will eat 5 spiders and get a buzz cut and post it here.
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What kind of strings were pulled to give training UAS a cca contract?. Btw where’s the weapons bay? Acquihire moment repurposed product moment
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$150k for a cruise missile just broke the hearts of every defense vc who invested in “10x cheaper and better” slop.
Just a reminder when hearing about low-cost cruise missiles like Lockheed Martin’s CMMT or Anduril’s Barracuda M500 that these weapons may be cheap… but they are NOT small. (I’m 6-feet, ~250 lbs)
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So is everyone is just shoving LLMs into robots and saying it’s Jarvis?.
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Carrying all of your eggs in one basket is easier than carrying 8 eggs in separate baskets
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Defense drone startups when you ask them how they plan to get blue uas cert(they’re pimping out the sales team)
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If you’re a hard tech founder and your feed doesn’t look like this, I have bad news for you.
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In less than 4 days at @fdotinc we:. - rebuilt, tuned and flew our drone.- ran our feature detection algorithm on a map with over 200,000 keypoints.- designed and printed a mount for our lidar .- created a point map of the office game room and detected all the features with 93%
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This may not look like much, but to us this is everything. We stayed up till 4 in the morning every night since we got to @fdotinc trying to fix the drone I broke. A few months ago I flew my untested drone indoors with an Xbox controller. It went as expected, and left a giant
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