Tethered. Persistent.
A road-mobile aerostat on a single tether. Power and data run up the line, so there is no endurance clock. It holds one position for days; relay, ISR or EW over a chosen point.
We fly yourtechnology,You choose how
Balloons and aerostats that carry any payload. Tethered to hold a position for days; free-flying to reach hundreds of kilometres. Bring your sensor, or take our full stack.
Modern operations need eyes,signals and effects held high, and held there.Satellites lack the resolution and are contested.Drones run out of battery and land. A masttall enough to see is tall enough to target.Ground radar is fixed and easy to kill.The antenna has to go up, and stay up.Nothing cheap does both.
Whatwe do
Luft builds the vehicle, not the sensor. We are the transport layer; a modular airborne platform that lifts your technology and holds it where the mission needs it. You keep your payload. We put it in the sky.
Three platforms.One supplier.
Free-flying. Attritable.
A low-cost balloon that rides the wind. Launch from safe ground, reach thousands of metres, carry a payload deep or fly as a decoy. Cheap enough to lose. Pick the platform for the mission. We build both.
Powered. Steerable.
A Zeppelin-type airship with its own engines and flight control. No tether, and no waiting on the wind. It flies to the point the mission needs, holds there under its own power, and carries the same payloads as the tethered platform.
Bring yourpayload.
EW, RF, ISR, comms, navigation. If you build it, we carry it. Technology-agnostic by design; no lock-in, no data handed over.
Or take thewhole stack.
Platform, payload and ground control, delivered as one system. For end users who need the capability, not the integration work.
The capability
At five hundred metres, line-of-sight reaches ninety kilometres; the signal that died in the valley now covers it entirely. From a single trailer. No launch crew, no runway, no fixed position to find. And when the mission needs reach instead of persistence, the same payload goes free-flying, hundreds of kilometres downwind. High, cheap, and hard to stop.
If your payloadneeds a lift, let’s talk.
Luft works with defence integrators, payload providers and procurement programmes in contested environments. First conversation takes thirty minutes.