Sky Defence Development
Manufacturing-First Defence Architecture
Initiate
Internal · Confidential
00:00
SDD
|
SKY DEFENCE DEVELOPMENT
Distributed Production Capability
Strategic Brief · Confidential
The deterrent is not the drone.
It is production capacity.
SDD builds
distributed production capability
for attritable autonomous systems.
01 · The shift
Mass and iteration speed decide modern war.
The mass gap
90
%
Drone share of casualties
Rifle-against-rifle combat is nearly extinct. Source, single atlas, directional.
The European gap
~100
×
Less than Ukraine's front-line output
Ukraine reference, about 12 to 14k per day. Europe sits 5 to 6 years behind.
Ukraine
~12 to 14k / day
Europe, ~100x less
02 · The economic law
Aerospace-grade.
Exquisite.
Attritable mass imposes cost asymmetrically.
SDD-CLASS
~€10k
REACHES
HIGH-VALUE ASSET
€10M
~1,000x
COST IMPOSITION
SDD-CLASS
~€10k
REACHES
HIGH-VALUE ASSET
€10M
~1,000x
COST IMPOSITION
The attacker's price falls as interception cheapens. The binding constraint is production.
03 · The binding constraint
The winner produces continuously, surviving disruption.
CENTRALISED PLANT
OUTPUT AFTER ONE HIT
100%
~0%
output collapses
DISTRIBUTED MICRO-FACTORIES
100%
~90%+
output holds
lose one node, lose 1 of N
CENTRALISED PLANT
OUTPUT AFTER ONE HIT
100%
~0%
output collapses
DISTRIBUTED MICRO-FACTORIES
100%
~90%+
output holds
lose one node, lose 1 of N
The constraint is no longer the drone. It is production.
04 · The market
The drone is a commodity.
Production is not.
Shahed-class segment · complete system price (EUR)
VIABLE . ≤ €10k
5-YEAR DEAD ZONE . UNCOMPETITIVE
Harop-class (IL)
>€100K
Shahed / Geran
18K
45K
SDD entry, today
13K
SDD 5-year
5K
0
10k
20k
30k
40k
50k
~6x
cheaper than LUCAS, the fielded Western reference
SDD 5-year €5k vs ~€32k . 3 to 9x under the Shahed and Geran band
an order of magnitude under allied exquisite
VIABLE . ≤ €10k
5-YEAR DEAD ZONE
Harop-class (IL)
>€100K
Shahed / Geran
18 to 45K
SDD entry, today
13K
SDD 5-year
5K
0
10k
20k
30k
40k
50k
~6x
cheaper than LUCAS,
the fielded Western reference
SDD 5-year €5k vs ~€32k . 3 to 9x under Shahed and Geran
an order of magnitude under allied exquisite
We win on the production method and the cost.
05 · Distributed production
SDD sells distributed production capability.
10 units per day per micro-factory. About 25 match a national theatre.
06 · Why it holds
Substrate stable, payload iterates.
PAYLOAD . swapped every few weeks
WEEKS
v1 . wk 0
v2 . wk 6
v3 . wk 12
v4 . wk 18
v5 . wk 24
v1 . wk 0
v2 . wk 6
v3 . wk 12
v4 . wk 18
CURRENT
The airframe evolves slowly.
the substrate stays stable for years while the line compresses cost
YEARS
PAYLOAD . swapped every few weeks
WEEKS
v1 . wk 0
v2 . wk 6
v3 . wk 12
v4 . wk 18
v5 . wk 24
v1 . wk 0
v2 . wk 6
v3 . wk 12
v4 . wk 18
CURRENT
The airframe evolves slowly.
stable for years while the line compresses cost
YEARS
The airframe stays still. The payload iterates on the threat's cadence. Cost compresses on the line's cadence.
07 · Founding team
Four founders
·
Three NATO countries
·
One mandate
Copenhagen · DK
Eik Jensenius
Schiffer
CEO
Commercial & Strategic
Copenhagen · DK
Bo
Petersen
Relations Coordinator
Concept Maker
Montreal · CA
Izek
Therrien
Engineering Lead
C-Series & A220 wing
Paris · FR
Clément
Simon
Concept Designs
Web & Visualisations
We are not building a drone.
We are building the production that wins.
Today the category is the attritable loitering munition. In five years it is who produces it cheapest, fastest, most resiliently.
Distributed production capability. The deterrent that no single strike can remove.
Partners
partners@skydefencedevelopment.com
Investors
investors@skydefencedevelopment.com
skydefencedevelopment.com
Replay