At the Ādaži NATO base in Latvia, Frankenburg Technologies executed a full kill-chain hard-kill intercept against a fast-moving aerial target in a short-range air-defence scenario.

This milestone marks a breakthrough in missile defence, bringing affordability and scale to a traditionally high-cost, low-volume sector.

Frankenburg’s Mark I is the first guided missile designed for mass manufacturing, built from commercially available components and delivered from concept to live fire in just 13 months.

The video shows the Mark I missile in a live-fire test, demonstrating:

• Launch of a moving fixed-wing Class III target drone (200 km/h)
• Initial target detection and tracking by an external sensor and C2 system
• Mark I missile launch from a tripod system
• Autonomous post-launch flight using INS-based midcourse guidance from target data
• Terminal homing with onboard guidance sensors at high sub-sonic interceptor speed (exceeding 1,000 km/h)
• Proximity-based warhead initiation and in-air target defeat
• Controlled descent of target debris for range safety

Missiles matter in defence for one simple reason: speed.

Mark I uses a solid-fuel rocket motor to generate missile-class closing speed, enabling intercepts at short-range (<2 km).

The system is intended to engage low- and slow-flying one-way attack drones with propellers (150–200 km/h), as well as faster targets using jet engines (450–600 km/h), including swarm-type systems.

This is only the beginning. Every missile category urgently needs affordability and scale, and that is Frankenburg’s mission we promise to deliver.