Inject AI power into your drone fleet in minutes.
Shearwater helps drone manufacturers rapidly boost their drone hardware with AI-powered autonomy and endurance — all without costly airframe redesigns.
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RAPID UPGRADE
Software-Powered Capability
With AI-driven autonomy, Smart Flight™ reduces the impact of your most pressing challenges: from shifting weather and regulations to aircraft limitations.
By integrating live environmental data with performance monitoring, Smart Flight™ adjusts your flight paths in real time, which enables:
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Safer operations in dynamic environments
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Optimized flight paths that extend endurance and range
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Reduced pilot workload, reducing cognitive load
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Consistent, repeatable performance across operations
Stack up the software-defined smarts.
From route planning and in-flight optimization to risk response, Smart Flight™ provides a modular way to quickly level-up your aircraft performance.
Rapidly boost your existing hardware to make impossible missions possible.
Extend your range by layering AI-powered planning and real-time adaptation onto your existing systems. With modular deployment options, we can turn weather, terrain, and aircraft constraints into operational advantages, giving you suprising hardware capabilities:
Safer operations with continuous monitoring of aircraft limits, energy state, and mission risk.
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30% longer range and 25% greater transit efficiency through weather- and terrain-aware routing.
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Reduce operator burden by up to 90% through automated planning, adaptation, and response workflows.
A far faster route to mission success.
Smart Flight™ is built for interoperability, with support for common systems like PX4 and ArduPilot, as well as broader ground control integrations. This gives drone manufacturers a way to deploy advanced autonomy and flight optimization into existing products, test programs, or customer-specific configurations — all without rebuilding the entire tech stack.
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Integrate individual modules or deploy the full suite
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Enhance existing aircraft instead of waiting for next-generation hardware
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Support different mission profiles across commercial, government, and defence customers
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Create new upgrade paths for legacy fleets and new production platforms alike
Less friction. Scalable performance.
For commercial OEMs, Smart Flight™ helps transform proven aircraft into more capable operational systems.
By improving route quality, increasing endurance, and reducing manual intervention, OEMs can help customers scale BVLOS operations with greater predictability, compliance, and fleet efficiency.
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Delivery: More reliable long-range and corridor-based operations with optimized routing and energy awareness.
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Infrastructure: Better coverage planning and repeatable inspections across variable terrain and conditions.
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Emergency response: Faster deployment and improved decision support in time-sensitive environments.
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Enterprise fleet operations: Lower pilot workload and more consistent outcomes across growing fleets.
Superior adaptability for defence applications, even on the battlefield.
The Smart Flight™ software layer helps boost mission endurance, adaptability, and reliability across complex operating environments.
With weather-informed planning, in-flight guidance, and risk-response abilities, the platform supports high-stakes missions where aircraft need to fly farther and adapt to shifting conditions — without adding new hardware.
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ISTAR: Get wider coverage and longer on-station time thanks to dynamic, energy-aware routing.
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Tactical resupplies: Efficiently traverse difficult or contested terrain.
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Persistent surveillance: Extend mission endurance for border, maritime, and infrastructure monitoring.
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Multi-aircraft operations: Quickly coordinate planning and adaptation across several platforms.
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Decision support for autonomy: Gain a support layer for piloted operations or as part of a more autonomous mission architecture.
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Build real-world drone intelligence
Extract even more value from your aircraft: better endurance, smarter autonomy, and reduced pilot burden. Our modular, drone-agnostic platform is built for real operating conditions, helping to accelerate growth — without unneeded complexity.
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Transform Your Operations with Cutting-Edge Drone AI Software
Shearwater’s defence drone software enhances operations across a wide range of mission-critical scenarios. From surveillance to tactical resupply, Smart Flight™ is engineered to optimize performance in the most demanding environments, supporting in-theatre success
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Transform Your Operations with Cutting-Edge Drone AI Software
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