BLACKSOFT, Counter-UAS simulation & hypervelocity air-to-air interception

Mission

Securing airspace, in software and in steel.

Our mission is to protect sensitive air-land zones from hostile drone intrusion, by optimizing the anti-drone "bubble" with capability simulators and penetration testing, and by neutralizing threats with hypervelocity air-to-air interceptors.

BLACKSOFT operates in both the digital space, with combat and capability simulators, and the physical space, through the ALM FURY range of hypervelocity interceptors. A dual Hardware & Software approach to a fast-moving threat.

>700 km/h

FURY hypervelocity interceptor

Complementary capability simulators

Rv ≥ 1.5

Speed-ratio efficacy threshold

SCS

Swarm-counter-swarm ready

The Threat

Drones now dominate the modern battlefield, and the urban sky.

From FPV attack drones and Shahed-class loitering munitions to swarms and stealth UCAVs, hostile UAVs have become a primary cause of casualties and a growing risk to airports, stadiums, prisons, and critical infrastructure. Speed, acceleration, and autonomy are now decisive in the air-to-air interception mission. Our threat library is built from real systems documented in Ukraine , Orlan-10/30, ZALA Z-16, Supercam, Albatross , whose reconnaissance variants fly slow (< 30 m/s) and are most interceptable during their surveillance loiter.

◎

Mass & saturation

Low-cost drones are produced by the hundreds of thousands. Defenders must answer swarms without spending too many, or too few, interceptors.

⤤

Speed escalation

An arms race on maximum speed (Vmax) between attack and interceptor vectors. Hypervelocity and maneuverability decide the outcome.

⌖

Sensitive sites

Cities, bases, ships and infrastructure need a protective dome that detects, classifies, and neutralizes intrusions in seconds.

The Platform

The BLACKSOFT air-to-air interception suite.

Three functional, complementary simulators, built around AI and multi-agent modeling, feed a single decision platform for capability sizing, optimal trajectories and swarm-counter-swarm interception.

SIM-LANCH

Capability model

Bracken–Lanchester equational models answer the core question: how many interceptors to launch against N hostile drones to neutralize them at a target probability, ready for automated launch flow management.

SIM-TRAJ

Interception trajectories

Pursuit and proportional-navigation guidance in 2D/3D, one-on-one, multi-drone and "wall of drones" scenarios, revealing the speed-ratio threshold that governs success.

SIM-STOCH

Stochastic capacity

Cross-stochastic and Monte-Carlo methods for optimal automatic launch of interceptors against swarm attacks (SCS), complementing the equational model.

DÔMETEST

Drone PenTest & digital twin

Test the robustness of an anti-drone dome: deploy ground and airborne C-UAS components on 2D/3D maps, simulate attacks, measure performance, and reconfigure the shield.

AUTOPILOT

Onboard guidance software

High-velocity embedded autopilot for the FURY interceptor, navigation, pursuit, terminal lock and effect activation, from 50 to 700+ km/h.

FURY · ALM

Hypervelocity interceptor

The micro-reactor-powered FURY interceptor (Vmax > 700 km/h, > 30 G), air-to-air neutralization of hostile drones and helicopters, box- or ramp-launched by a single operator.

The Science

Guidance that follows the shortest path to the target.

Our interceptors are driven by proportional navigation, the guidance law used by real missiles, commanding lateral acceleration proportional to the line-of-sight rotation rate:

a = N · V_c · λ̇ · λ̇ = (r ∧ ṙ) / r²

Validated across thousands of simulations, three conclusions guide our doctrine:

C1The speed ratio Rv = V_interceptor / V_target is the single most important factor in interception.
C2When the ratio is low, numbers and 3D spatial coverage of slower interceptors can compensate.
C3Above an efficacy threshold near Rv ≈ 1.5, interception is near-certain given real-time target tracking.

Modeled physics

Faithful to aerology

3-DOFPoint-mass dynamics: thrust, aerodynamic drag, lift-limited turn (radius = V²/a), energy management and fuel.
SENSORDesignation noise & latency modeling, perception is never perfect.
SCSSwarm-counter-swarm: large attacking swarms vs. coordinated interceptor flows.
3DFull 3D engagements, including the "curse of dimensionality" for slow interceptors.

The Edge

Why BLACKSOFT.

Hardware & software, end to end

We cover the two inseparable segments of interception: capability/PenTest simulation and onboard interception software, paired with hypervelocity interceptors and micro-jet propulsion through our partner ALM Méca.

A credible challenger to the global leader

The FURY interceptor is positioned as a European competitor in the hyperspeed interceptor-drone segment, where today only a handful of players operate.

European propulsion exclusivity

Through ALM Méca, micro-reactors and micro-turbines, including world-first vectoring turbine work, BLACKSOFT accesses propulsion that few in the world master.

Research that became a standard

Our simulation work, presented at the CAT aeroterrestrial-combat conferences, is now referenced by leading defense teams. Deep expertise, fast iteration.

Cost-curve, layered interception

Modern air defense is a cost-curve fight: a cheap drone should not consume an expensive missile. As in Ukraine's interceptor ecosystem, our software matches each threat tier to the cheapest adequate effector, preserving premium interceptors and turning industrial speed into defensive depth, under human-on-the-loop control.

The Benchmark

Where every counter-drone approach breaks, and where we don't.

The C-UAS market is racing from $6.6B (2025) to $20B+ by 2030 (≈25% CAGR), yet no single layer answers the modern threat. RF jamming is now blind to fiber-optic and fully autonomous drones; close-in kinetics run out of range; directed energy is powerful but weather- and line-of-sight-bound; and pure interceptor drones cost $100k–$500k a shot. BLACKSOFT closes the gap with a link-agnostic hypervelocity hard-kill, sized and proven by software no hardware vendor offers.

Capability	RF jamming / EW	Close-in kinetic (guns · nets)	Directed energy (laser · HPM)	Interceptor drones (Coyote · Roadrunner)	FURY + sim suite
Defeats jamming-immune dronesfiber-optic & fully autonomous
Engages at range & altitudekill before the threat reaches the site
All-weather, not line-of-sight boundrain · cloud · over-the-horizon
Swarm economics at scalecost per kill vs. mass attack
Reusable effectorrecover & re-fly, no detonation
Capability sizing & digital twinhow many · where · proven coverage

BLACKSOFT strength Strong Partial / limited Weak / none

We don't claim to beat directed energy on cost-per-shot, nothing does. We win on the dimension that matters operationally: a link-agnostic hypervelocity hard-kill that reaches the threat early and works in any weather, paired with the only simulation suite (SIM-LANCH · SIM-TRAJ · SIM-STOCH · DÔMETEST) that sizes the interceptor force, optimizes cost-per-kill, and proves dome coverage before a single round is procured. Hardware vendors sell effectors; we sell a solved interception problem.

Hardware Partner

ALM Méca, propulsion & interceptor airframes.

A manufacturer of micro-reactors, micro-turbines and hypervelocity interceptor drones. ALM Méca builds the FURY airframe and propulsion that turn our software doctrine into a fielded effector.

Together, BLACKSOFT and ALM Méca deliver a complete "simulators & interceptors" offering, deployable for civil and military applications.

FURY ALM

> 700 km/h

Acceleration > 30 G · micro-reactor propulsion · single-operator launch

Team

Operators, researchers, and builders.

Thierry Berthier

Founder · C-UAS research, CReC Saint-Cyr

Stéphane Camy

Advisor

Laurent Schaal

CEO, ALM Méca · propulsion & airframes

Gen. (Air) Jean-Marc Vigilant

Strategic Advisor

Backed by a full-stack development team building the simulation and onboard software.

Outpace the drone threat.