No signal? We fly it in.

Autonomous. Long range. A repeater on board.

Project Hermes

Ten miles out. Forty‑five minutes up.

Meet Hermes, our second generation. Flown by AI, it goes farther, stays longer, and brings the radio with it.

10miles

The whole search area. Covered.

45minutes

A whole assignment on one battery.

Radio repeateron board

Lands on high ground and becomes the link.

Fully autonomous

Machine learning flies the mission from launch to landing.

Foldablechassis

Packs into a backpack. Deploys in minutes.

UShardware

From the flight controller to the radio.

In active development

Built for the days nothing else works.

SEARCH AND RESCUE

Keep every ground team on the net while you search.

WILDLAND FIRE

Coverage over the fireline. No crew required.

Project Janus

The console that flies it.

Janus AI ground control software. Plans the search. Flies the mission. Needs no internet.

The full Janus ground control console mid-mission: a satellite map with the aircraft en route to a landing site, battery and link readouts in the docks

Explore Project Janus

Project Aegis

Aegis. The first generation.

It lands on high ground and becomes a repeater. VHF in. UHF out. Four watts.

The Aegis quadcopter flying at sunset above a treeline, silhouetted against pink and orange clouds

Explore Project Aegis

The founding team.

Designed it. Built it. Flew it.

Jackson Robertson

Electrical and computer

Adam Sparks

Electrical and computer

Ryan Zheng

Mechanical

Tyler Stemach

Mechanical

Alex Godsey

Mechanical

The fine print.

What is Hermes?

Our second generation aircraft. Ten miles of range, forty five minutes in the air, and the repeater on board. In active development now.

What does Aegis do?

Carries a repeater to high ground, lands, and relays VHF out on UHF at four watts. Ten minutes to set up, thirty plus minutes of relay. Full build on the Project Aegis site.

What is Janus?

Our AI ground control software. Search planning, autonomous flight and evidence recording, fully offline. See it fly.

How do we reach you?

sales@vexilsystems.com. If you run a search and rescue or fire program, we want to hear from you.