Passive over active.
A radar announces its own position. A camera does not. The M0THER finds its targets by watching, from altitude, through visible-light and thermal optics, and emits nothing an adversary can follow home.
Optical M0THER carriers, single-use S0N interceptors, autonomous BAY ground stations. One system, built so that stopping a cheap drone costs less than sending one, from a squad perimeter to a national frontier.
Cheap drones rewrote the economics of land warfare. A quadrotor costing a few hundred euros can disable armour worth millions, and loitering munitions cross borders in numbers no missile stockpile can answer. Europe has no defensive layer priced to meet them. The system we are building is that layer, and five claims decide its shape.
A radar announces its own position. A camera does not. The M0THER finds its targets by watching, from altitude, through visible-light and thermal optics, and emits nothing an adversary can follow home.
A command post is the target an opponent pays most to find. This system has none. Carriers agree on a launch between themselves, over a local peer mesh, by a two-of-three vote. No node is privileged, and no single loss stops the fight.
The S0N launches once, intercepts once, and does not come back. Accepting that removed the retrieval mechanics, the maintenance cycle and most of the cost. You only launch once: the name of the company is its first design constraint.
Jamming takes the network first. Detection, classification and launch consensus therefore run on the carriers themselves, with no server, no satellite and no backhaul. The system keeps working in exactly the conditions it was built for.
No single warhead answers a plastic FPV at fifty metres and a cruising munition at night. Each carrier flies a mixed magazine of S0N variants, kinetic and fragmentation, day and night, and the BAY reloads it without a ground crew.
Each claim is also a budget line. Together they price the defence below the attack.
M0THER
A sub-25 kg multirotor holding station over a protected position. It carries the optics, the onboard classifier and four S0N interceptors, and shares what it sees with its peers on the mesh.
S0N
A palm-sized single-use drone, dispatched on crossing geometry and guided by its own seeker in the terminal phase. Four variants behind one keyed interface. It is built to cost less than what it kills.
BAY
An unattended dock. Tethered, it powers the carrier for continuous station-keeping; between sorties it swaps the battery and reloads the magazine on its own. It supplies energy and rounds, never fire authority.
Design targets at architecture baseline · pre-prototype
The squad case is three carriers over nine soldiers. The frontier case is the same protocol stretched along a border, carrier after carrier on one mesh. The geometry changes; the doctrine does not.
Design, doctrine and engagement modelling closed in early 2026. The next step is a seven-month bench build, three carriers, one BAY and six interceptors, gated on the close of seed financing. Validation then moves from lab to field to a live intercept demonstration. The build is open to capital and programme partners.
YOLO Machines was founded in 2025 in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, inside the EU and NATO, and is operated by INC3 Ventures SRL. It builds one system and nothing else.
The address is the strategy. Optics, embedded-systems and machine-learning engineers are hired locally, the series line is planned in the same city, and the supply chain stays inside the European Union.