// TACTICAL ROBOTICS & OFF-GRID COMMAND · EST. 2025
BUILT FOR TEAMS
THAT WORK in THE
Toughest environments.
Rugged unmanned systems and off-grid command software for search and rescue, wildland fire, public safety and defense. NDAA-compliant, engineered in small-town America.
// SELECT YOUR SYSTEM
THE CANIS SYSTEM
SAR · FIRE · SKI PATROL · BACKCOUNTRY · MESHTAK server-based command and control on a Raspberry Pi. An affordable Common Operating Picture software system.ROBOTICS
SWAT · EOD · PUBLIC SAFETY · DEFENSE & FEDERALThrowable, driveable and flyable sUGV and UAV platforms. Customize your system to your needs, don't pay for what you don't need.// PLATFORMS
PURPOSE-BUILT UNMANNED SYSTEMS
PRICES ARE BASE PLATFORM, EX-OPTIONS. CONFIGURE AND SEE YOUR TOTAL ON BUILD YOUR SYSTEM.
// PHILOSOPHY
ENGINEERED FOR THE fuTURE.
Every Cattle Dog Drones platform begins with a tactical problem identified by current or former operators — not a technology looking for an application. We start with the objective, the conditions, and the failure modes of existing solutions, and we work backward into the smallest, simplest system that closes the gap.
The result is hardware that earns its place in the kit because nothing about it was designed in isolation from the mission.
"At Cattle Dog Drones, our engineering is guided by special operations experience at every stage. We consult with both former and current operators so our systems are shaped by real-world requirements from day one."
AUSTIN GLASSCOCK / FOUNDER
FORMER RECON MARINE & SCOUT SNIPER
// OPERATING ENVIRONMENT
engineered in Texas.
for the toughest environments.
We engineer where we operate. Heat, dust, wind and large-parcel coverage are the conditions our tools are designed around.
31.5664° N 100.6420° W · SONORA, TEXAS
// UNIFIED STACK
ONE STACK ACROSS THE FLEET.
Every Cattle Dog Drones platform runs the same military and enterprise-grade hardware and the same operator interfaces. Train on one aircraft, operate the entire fleet. Standardize spares, standardize procedures, standardize sustainment.
// MISSION CONTROL
AUTERION MISSION CONTROL
The Android ground station interface used to plan, monitor, and execute every Cattle Dog Drones mission. Touch-driven waypoint planning, live video, telemetry overlay, and one-button handoff between operators. The same screen on every platform — train once, deploy anywhere.
// FLIGHT STACK
AUTERION SKYNODE X
The flight computer and mission backbone in every Cattle Dog Drones aircraft. Enterprise PX4 firmware, Docker-based payload applications, integrated LTE, and native fleet management. The same mission computer fielded across U.S. and allied military programs worldwide.
// DATA LINKS
DOODLE LABS MESH RIDER
Optional AES-256 encrypted mesh networking for missions that require resilient communications. Self-healing topology, hardened-structure penetration, multi-vehicle coordination, and spectrum coverage from civilian ISM to NATO-authorized military bands.
// TACTICAL INTEGRATION
ATAK UAS TOOL
Native integration with the Android Tactical Assault Kit — the situational awareness layer fielded across U.S. and allied formations. Cattle Dog Drones vehicles appear as friendly assets on the common operating picture; payload feeds, telemetry, and CoT markers flow into the tactical network operators already use.
The same hardware. The same software. The same operator interface. Across every Cattle Dog Drones platform.
// OPERATOR EXPERIENCE
DOCTRINE INFORMS DESIGN
Cattle Dog Drones engineering is shaped by real special-operations experience — HAHO/HALO, CQB, greenside recon, amphibious, VBSS, and sniper operations. Every capability starts from a mission requirement.
Read the full operator background →// CAPABILITIES
VERTICALLY INTEGRATED. AMERICAN-MADE.
ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING
- Prusa XL FleetIndustrial FDM additive manufacturing
- PETG-CF / ASA-CFEngineering polymer feedstock
- Brass Heat-Set InsertsThreaded interface hardware
- In-House FDM ProductionSmall-batch component runs
AVIONICS & AUTONOMY
- Auterion Skynode-XFlight stack and onboard compute
- Doodle Labs Mesh RiderResilient mesh data link
- ePropelledPropulsion motors
- Nexus Battery SystemsEnergy storage
- ARK ElectronicsGPS and peripherals
// INDUSTRY COLLABORATION
The vendors whose hardware, radios and materials go into every platform we ship.
POWER SUPPLY SYSTEMS
FDM MANUFACTURING
RESILIENT EDGE CONNECTIVITY
3DXTECH FILAMENTS
PROTECTIVE TRANSPORT
FLIGHT CONTROL & AVIONICS
// FIELD MEDIA
FROM RANGE, RANCH, AND TEST CARD
// MADE IN AMERICA
NDAA COMPLIANT
BY DESIGN.
NDAA-compliant hardware, designed and integrated in one place. Printed and assembled in house in Sonora, Texas — veteran owned.
TAKE THE SPECS TO YOUR CHIEF BEFORE YOU TALK TO US.
One page per platform. What it is, what it does, what it costs, and the NDAA compliance statement — printable, and built to survive a photocopier.