A new kind of defence company, engineered from a small town in north Wales. Encrypted communications, long-range autonomous aircraft, operator pods, and — from 2028 — sovereign orbital infrastructure for the United Kingdom and the United States.
Full-bleed render of the DF-5, Cipher Terminal, and a container pod — side by side on a dark gradient. Replace with final 3D render or photograph when available.
We are building across the full defence stack — encrypted comms on the ground, autonomous aircraft in the air, operator pods that deploy anywhere, and orbital infrastructure above. Shipping begins 2027.
DF-5 tactical and DF-60 strategic. Two envelopes, one flight stack.
Cipher OS and Cipher Terminal. Post-quantum secure, operator-owned.
Container, office, and vehicular variants. Ship it, bolt it, drive it.
A UK-launched constellation for resilient tasking and backhaul.
Cipher OS is the zero-trust communications plane for allied forces. Post-quantum key exchange. Mesh-radio routing. Chain-of-custody audit on every packet. It runs on the Cipher Terminal natively, and on any STIG-hardened Linux box we can fit it to.
A small, fast Welsh team that writes its own code, machines its own parts, and ships the way modern software companies ship — weeks, not years. Customer-obsessed. Operator-led. Vertically integrated from silicon to airframe.
Silicon, airframes, firmware, and crypto — all designed and produced under UK-sovereign chain of custody. No foreign substrates.
Weekly firmware builds. Monthly hardware revisions. A feedback loop from operator to engineer that measures in hours, not procurement cycles.
We sell exclusively to the UK government, the US government, and a small circle of treaty allies. No exceptions.
Our visible two-year roadmap. Every milestone below is either committed engineering work or a signed partner dependency. No marketing targets.
Side-by-side: CT-1 handheld device photograph (or 3D render) next to a Cipher OS screen capture showing an active encrypted session. Dark background, subtle red accent glow.
We are vertically integrating silicon, software, and airframe engineering so every platform we ship is software-native from the first revision.
GPS-denied navigation with vision-inertial odometry. Target recognition runs on edge silicon — no data leaves the airframe.
ML-KEM and ML-DSA hybrid with classical curves. Hardware roots of trust on every device we ship.
Standard rail accepts ISR optics, EW suites, and kinetic packages. Field-swappable in under ninety seconds.
Unified C2 for swarms of up to 256 airframes. One operator. One pane of glass. Full mission rehearsal and replay.
Rated for high-altitude sortie profiles from −40°C to +60°C. Composite airframe tolerates sustained turbulence and icing.
A growing network of UK and Welsh partners for composites, radios, and precision machining. Our suppliers directory is open.
We get asked this a lot. The short answer is that the best defence engineering in Europe over the next decade will not happen in London. It will happen in small, capable, focused teams — in places where people still build things.
Betws-y-Coed is in a valley. The physical environment is its own first line of operational security — and its own talent filter.
A century of aerospace, slate, and precision metalwork. The machine shops around us know how to machine things that matter.
Cardiff, Bangor, and Aberystwyth universities are half an hour away. Cambridge and Bristol are a single train. We can hire, and we can keep.
Engineers who plant roots ship better products. Our team's children go to the village school. You can finish work, walk ten minutes, and be in Eryri.
Wide landscape photograph of the Conwy valley — Dragonfod's office in context. Moody, overcast, atmospheric. Could also be a drone shot of the village with Eryri in the background.
Dragonfod is bootstrapped by the founding team today. Institutional round opens autumn 2026. We will not accept funding from any source that conflicts with our allied-only customer policy.
No outside capital, no strings. The founding team invested their own savings and turned down three term sheets with customer-base restrictions.
Early-stage grant from the Welsh Government's Defence Technology Programme. No equity. No dilution. A signal of support from Senedd Cymru.
Pre-Series A targeting Q4 2026. UK and US defence-aligned investors only. Deck available under NDA via the briefing form.
The gap between the procurement cycle and the threat environment is now measured in years. Dragonfod is building on the other side of that gap.