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Composite & powered airframes
Bigger range, heavier payload, more time on target — from a structure engineered to disappear into the mission.
People · Process · Technology
Next-Gen Composite Airframesfor the Frontline
Ultra-lightweight composite airframes that increase range, payload capacity, and loiter time for heavy-lift quadcopters — without requiring changes to batteries or motors.
- 0.28kg
- Airframe mass
- 8.0kg
- Max takeoff
- 37km
- Operating range
- 160km/h
- Max speed
The Challenge
No more trade-offs
Heavy-lift UAVs — Baba Yaga and Vampire class — are fundamentally limited by airframe weight. Every extra kilogram of structure reduces the energy available for distance, payload, and flight time, forcing operators to trade range for payload, or payload for range.
Every kilogram of structure is a kilogram you can't spend on the mission.
Our Solution
Highest strength-to-weight ratio
Frontline NextGen designs and supplies lightweight composite airframes and powered airframes for high-performance drones. Reduced structural mass lowers the total weight that must be lifted throughout the mission — increasing available battery energy for range, loiter time, and payload.
Composite airframe
Engineered to disappear into the mission
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Protected IP portfolio
Designs are proprietary and protected, built on a defensible composite-airframe technology base.
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London engineering · Ukraine workshop
Aerospace engineering discipline paired with frontline-adjacent manufacturing and rapid iteration.
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Direct frontline feedback
Informed by real operator input from active deployments — not theoretical specifications.
Proven Performance
The DeepAir family
Each airframe is treated as an instrument — measured against a heavy-lift mission profile, not rounded for a brochure.
Q10 recorded with a 3 kg payload. Q16 / Q20 projected pending flight test.← scroll table →
| Specification |  10" heavy-lift class |  16" heavy-lift class |  20" heavy-lift class |
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| Airframe mass | 0.28 kg | 0.41 kg | 0.58 kg |
| Max takeoff | 8.0 kg | 16 kg | 24 kg |
| Operating range | 37 km | 31 km | 26 km |
| Max speed | 160 km/h | 150 km/h | 140 km/h |
| Cruise speed | 120 km/h | 110 km/h | 100 km/h |
| Reference payload | 3 kg | 6 kg | 10 kg |
| Battery | 28,000 mAh | 44,000 mAh | 60,000 mAh |
| Rotor diameter | 10 / 11" | 16 / 17" | 20 / 22" |
| Operating temperature | −25 to 55 °C | −25 to 55 °C | −25 to 55 °C |
| Comms | 2.4 GHz / 868 MHz · EW-resilient | 2.4 GHz / 868 MHz · EW-resilient | 2.4 GHz / 868 MHz · EW-resilient |
| Alternate link | Optical fibre, up to 35 km | Optical fibre, up to 35 km | Optical fibre, up to 35 km |
| Standards | EASA C4 · ISO 9001 | EASA C4 · ISO 9001 | EASA C4 · ISO 9001 |
| Data sheet | Request | Request |
Leadership & Trust
A team built for this
Aerospace engineering, frontline operational experience, and defence stakeholder networks — under one roof.
BH
Name withheld — OPSEC
Chief Technology Officer
Combat-proven HUR team leader · 1,400+ combat UAV flight hours · 100+ executed missions. Custom quadcopter & fixed-wing design, ArduPilot / Pixhawk / MAVLink, ISR and ordnance delivery. Former USMC Infantry Marine.
Partnerships
Building in partnership
Frontline NextGen develops in close collaboration with defence organisations across the UK and Ukraine — pairing London aerospace-engineering discipline with frontline-adjacent manufacturing and rapid, operator-driven iteration.
Industry clusters and military units to be added as they become available.
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Defence network
Ukraine Defence Partners
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Engineering partner
FACt UK
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Joint development programme
Joint UK–Ukraine Development Programme
Next Steps
Build with the engineering team
Contact our engineering team for technical specifications and full performance data, prototype evaluation, or joint development opportunities.