CriusCo's Next-Gen Autonomous Aerial Unit
The Silent Treatment: CriusCo’s Next-Gen Autonomous Aerial Unit
In environments where silence is survival and data is dominance, CriusCo is proud to introduce its newest creation—The Silent Treatment.
This isn’t a development platform. This isn’t a concept render. What you see here is operational, field-tested, and ready to redefine what unmanned flight looks like in high-risk, low-visibility domains.
I. Mission: Shadow Precision
Traditional UAVs are loud, reactive, and externally dependent. Silent Treatment was designed to be the opposite—autonomous, silent, and sovereign.
Engineered for:
- Zero signature reconnaissance
- Low-Earth fast-track data relay
- Adversarial weather autonomy
- Contested airspace navigation
It moves like vapor. It sees without being seen. It adapts before it asks for permission.
II. Flight, Rewritten
At the heart of Silent Treatment is a new embedded flight computer called Onyx, developed by CriusCo’s in-house edge compute division. Onyx doesn’t just fly the drone—it predicts, simulates, and redirects with sub-1ms feedback latency.
Core features include:
- ARMv9 96-core neural compute array
- Full-sensor fusion (IR/EO/LiDAR passive array)
- LoRa, BLE, LTE fallback routing
- Embedded real-time inference for environmental mapping
Every movement is filtered through a probabilistic risk engine, developed using flight logs from over 2 million km of training data gathered across five continents.
III. Airframe: Minimal Form, Maximum Threat
Designed with modularity and stealth in mind, the body of the Silent Treatment features:
- Matte-black composite skin, radar-absorbent and thermally dispersed
- Titanium-inlaid vibration dampening rails
- Aerodynamic, thermally decoupled fuselage
- Tool-less access to compute and power modules
With a diagonal span under 450mm and total system weight of 1.3kg, it operates at the edge of the visibility curve—able to perch, hover, sprint, or glide with equal precision.
IV. Powertrain and Propulsion
CriusCo engineers took a first-principles approach to propulsion. Instead of sourcing standard drone motors, they built the entire motor in-house, tuned for battlefield-grade reliability.
- Quad brushless direct-drive rotors, liquid graphite coated for heat dissipation
- Dual-bus power delivery via lithium-titanate 64Wh pack
- Field-hot-swappable cells with autonomous handover
- Rotor harmonics tuned to operate below 26dB SPL at 20m
This is not your average drone hum. This is next-level acoustic invisibility.
V. Perception That Outperforms
With a multi-spectral visual cortex onboard, Silent Treatment can process and react faster than the average human can blink.
Sensor Suite:
- 8K EO camera with rolling capture, active horizon correction
- Shortwave IR for thermal contrast mapping
- LiDAR-lite array with on-device 3D mesh generation
- Quad-mic acoustic vectoring array for threat triangulation
All processed onboard. No cloud dependency. No delay.
VI. Navigation Without Infrastructure
GPS denial is no longer a problem. Silent Treatment comes with MAPCORE—CriusCo’s proprietary SLAM-based inertial navigation system. It builds its own maps on the fly and stores them encrypted with quantum-safe signatures.
- Drift under 2m per 10km in GNSS-free mode
- Real-time adaptation to wind, obstructions, and signal interference
- Predictive pathfinding using mission heuristic cache
It doesn’t follow. It leads.
VII. Modular Payload + Expansion Bay
A critical part of Silent Treatment’s design is flexibility. The ventral bay supports plug-and-play modules for:
- Signal intelligence (SIGINT)
- Wireless packet injection/spoofing
- Autonomous relay node positioning
- Chemical, biological, and radiation detection
- Custom optics or sound decoy payloads
Payloads snap in via CriusCo’s new magnetic-seal data/power interface (rated IP68), deployable in-field in under 90 seconds.
VIII. Autonomy That Understands Context
Silent Treatment uses Situational Inference Logic (SIL) to adapt not just to conditions—but to missions. It shifts behavioral states based on onboard heuristics, command directives, or sensory anomalies.
Examples:
- Follows you if you fall
- Docks if power drops below threshold
- Signals allies via spectrum-bounded LED flash if visibility lost
- Avoids terrain-based blindspots using volumetric scan overlays
Think of it less like a drone, more like a mission partner.
IX. Live Deployment Metrics
As of April 2025, Silent Treatment has completed 300+ field hours in pre-commercial deployment:
- Airborne uptime: 99.2%
- Fault recovery success: 100% on thermal-induced flight reroutes
- Comm disruption fallback effectiveness: >92% reconnection within 3 seconds
- Battery module swap efficiency: Median 1:14 min
- Operator-reported satisfaction (internal alpha): 9.8/10
X. What’s Next
Future variants are in development with features like:
- Miniaturized SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) integration
- Persistent loitering with solar-trickle charging surfaces
- Cognitive gesture-paired control for field-deployed operators
- Autonomous swarm coordination using CriusCo’s new IPK-CommMesh protocol
A Message from Our Founder
Some people build drones to race. Some build them to film. We built this to see what’s unseen. To know before others guess. And to operate in places no system has ever survived unaided. We don’t build consumer electronics. We build aerial intelligence. Silent Treatment is proof of what’s possible when you ignore compromise and listen to the problem space instead of the noise. World, look to the sky and see us.
Collin Baldrica
Founder & CEO, CriusCo