Autonomous Terminal Approach
Takes over the final approach and guides the aircraft onto a designated target at ranges up to 1 km.
AIMLOCK
Lock On. Stay Locked.
Autonomous terminal approach — AIMLOCK guides the aircraft onto a designated target at ranges up to 1 km. Because it follows the target visually rather than GPS coordinates, it holds guidance through electronic-warfare jamming and GPS spoofing, exactly where coordinate-based navigation fails.
- Up to 1 km
- Vision-Based
- EW / REB Resilient
- Spoof-Proof
- GPS-Independent
Key Advantage
Coordinate-based guidance fails the moment GPS is jammed or spoofed. AIMLOCK follows the target itself — visually — so the final approach holds exactly where other systems break.
Lock On and Commit
From designation to impact, the aircraft tracks the target visually — no operator stick time and no coordinate to spoof.
Designate Target
Operator marks the target in the video feed
Visual Lock
AIMLOCK locks onto the target's appearance
Autonomous Tracking
Holds the target through maneuver and jamming
Terminal Approach
Guides the aircraft onto the target, up to 1 km
What AIMLOCK Does
Autonomy for the final, most contested seconds of the mission.
Vision-Based Tracking
Follows the target by its appearance in the camera feed, not by a coordinate it's told to trust.
Holds Through Maneuver
Keeps the lock as the target moves, turns or accelerates during the approach.
EW / REB Resilient
No ground-station link in the loop, so active jamming of GPS and command links can't break guidance.
Spoof-Proof
Because it doesn't rely on external position, a falsified GPS signal can't pull the aircraft off target.
GPS-Independent
Operates with no satellite fix at all — designed for fully GPS-denied airspace.
Beats Jamming & Spoofing
Coordinate-guided weapons trust an external position — jam or spoof it and they drift off target. AIMLOCK trusts only what it sees.
Coordinate-Guided (GPS)
Spoofed → Miss
A falsified or jammed position pulls the aircraft off the target — the closer it gets, the worse the error.
AIMLOCK Vision-Lock
Locked → Hit
With no external position in the loop, there's nothing to jam or spoof — the lock holds straight to impact.
More Hits, Fewer Aborts
Why a vision-locked terminal approach lands the mission where coordinate guidance can't.
Holds Through Maneuver
Keeps the lock as the target turns, brakes or accelerates — no lost track at the decisive moment.
Corrects to the Last Second
Closed-loop visual guidance keeps adjusting aim all the way to impact, not just at release.
No Pilot Skill Needed
Autonomy flies the hard final approach — the operator only has to designate the target.
Fewer Aborts
No satellite fix to lose means missions aren't scrubbed by jamming or a dropped GPS lock.
Where It's Deployed
Autonomy for engagements where coordinate navigation can't be trusted.
Strike & Interception
Vision-locked terminal approach onto a designated target, holding guidance through jamming and spoofing.
Counter-UAS
Detect and classify small aerial threats against open sky, then cue interception.
Moving-Target Engagement
Hold the lock on targets that move and maneuver.
Precision Approach
Repeatable, hands-off final approach in contested airspace.
From Detection to Lock
AIMLOCK is the terminal link in the AAD autonomy chain — handed a target by Wield-AI after Mission Autopilot flies the ingress.
Mission Autopilot
Flies the planned ingress to the target area
Wield-AI
Detects and cues the target in the live feed
AIMLOCK
Locks on and flies the terminal approach
On the AAD Flight Stack
AIMLOCK runs on the AAD flight stack — executing on BattleCore FC7 and driving the airframe directly, with the target feed coming from UCMOS-D or UTIM cameras via EdgeNode AI. Everything stays onboard and air-gapped.
BattleCore FC7 — at a glance
- MCU
- STM32H743 · 2 MB
- Firmware
- Full ArduPilot
- Redundancy
- 3× IMU · 2× Baro
- Compute link
- CAN to EdgeNode AI
- Input
- 4–8S (max 34 V)
- Operation
- Air-gapped · onboard
Runs on BattleCore FC7Vision from UCMOS / UTIMAir-Gapped · OnboardUp to 1 km
