Our Mission

The Cold War created the modern defense industrial system and that system was based around ever-more-complex and ever-more-expensive weapons. As one side developed a new capability based on advanced technologies the other side was forced to develop an equally advanced and expensive capability to counter it. This is the dynamic that brought us to aircraft costing hundreds of millions of dollars and anti-aircraft systems in which a single missile can cost more than four million dollars.

There will always be a need for high-end capabilities to counter high-end threats. But as Ukrainian resistance to Russian aggression and the dire experience of the USA in the Gulf have amply demonstrated, using high-end systems to counter low-cost threats creates a shot-exchange dynamic not even the world's richest nation can sustain for more than a few weeks at most.

For years NATO member nations looked at Ukraine and made comments along the lines of "they're only innovating with drones because they don't have the high-end weapon systems we possess." The US debacle in the Gulf has shown the folly of this way of thinking. The USA has the world's largest inventory of high-end weapons systems and yet it lost a hugely expensive AWACS on the ground to a cheap drone. It continues to lose multi-million dollar surveillance drones despite supposedly having bombed Iran's air defenses out of existence. And the USA's own bases in the Gulf have proved to be horrifically vulnerable to cheap drone attacks.

The reality is that low-cost unmanned systems have changed the nature and the economics of modern warfare.

Unfortunately, Western nations have in general drawn the wrong conclusion. Hundreds of millions of dollars are being thrown at startups that seek to replicate (but at much higher per-unit cost) what Ukraine was doing six months ago. Moreover, few if any of these startups and their potential customers have grasped that Ukraine's drone innovations are only effective because they form a part of a much larger capability. Focusing on drones is a false path and will yield little in the way of meaningful capability.

The real lesson to be drawn from Ukraine's persistent resistance against Russian aggression is that battlefield innovations are now proceeding at such a rapid pace that backward-looking attempts to play catch-up are doomed to irrelevance.

What is required above all else is the ability to construct platforms that are inherently adaptable. As no one can accurately predict the needs of tomorrow, it is essential that there are platforms that are purpose-designed to be capable not merely of a wide range of mission types today but that can be utilized for mission types tomorrow that are presently beyond our imagination.

That is the driving insight behind Multum Aero Systems' SkyGhost.

We are building a multi-role platform that not only can fill critical capability gaps today but is adaptable for the needs of tomorrow's battlespace.

Multum Aero Systems has understood that low-cost high-capability easily manufactured systems will be a vital component of national defense in the years ahead. Even as NATO members attempt to learn yesterday's lessons from Ukraine, we are interacting with people who are already looking ahead and preparing for the next set of innovations.

Our aim is to enable countries to deploy a wide range of capabilities ranging from AWACS-like situational awareness to en-mass autonomous destruction of enemy drone swarms at a unit cost that is a miniscule fraction of a single conventional old-style platform.

We understand that capability at scale is non-negotiable and that the old model of ever-higher-costs for ever-fewer-units is a dead end.

In a world in which alliances have become unreliable, individual nations must be capable of deploying their own capabilities. To do so, low-cost high-impact platforms are essential.

If a nation can replace a conventional AWACS costing more than €800,000,000 with fifty or one hundred platforms each costing less than a tiny fraction of that sum, that nation no longer has to rely on the assets of partner nations that may not be as helpful as needed when the time comes.

In a world in which alliances have become unreliable and delivery timelines for essential weapons systems stretch out for decades, individual nations must be capable of deploying their own capabilities. Conventional air defense systems are impotent against mass drone swarms and their costs are prohibitive. Augmenting such high-end systems with largely autonomous capability to destroy hundreds of Geran-style drones every night, night after night, is essential for every nation seeking to protect its airspace.

Capable of operating at altitudes of 8,000 meters, carrying internal payloads of up to 300 kilograms, with flight durations of up to 18 hours thanks to its hybrid propulsion system, and with ultra-low observability thanks to its low-cost high-resilience innovative radar-absorbent sheathing, SkyGhost can provide essential capabilities at a fraction of the cost of any alternative. It can improve the utility of small drones, it can provide essential logistics capability in highly non-permissive environments, and it can provide survivable ISR in contested environments.

These are merely a few examples of the mission types Multum Aero Systems' innovative low-cost SkyGhost platform can perform. And SkyGhost is inherently adaptable to tomorrow's mission requirements as well.

Careers

Multum Aero Systems is looking for innovative engineering talent for the following roles:

To inquire about any of these roles please send your curriculum vitae to info@multumaero.com. We will treat your inquiry in the strictest confidence.