$ONDS just announced LADOS and this is the moment the thesis clicks into place.
For many months I’ve said Ondas isn’t a drone company. It’s an autonomous defense platform being assembled in right in front of your eyes.. counter-UAS (Iron Drone, Sentrycs), ground robotics (Roboteam), stratospheric ISR (World View), propulsion, demining, secure networks, and growing.
If anyone is still saying “it’s a collection of point solutions”, about ondas they are very uninformed, or frankly just retarded.
If Iron Wave or other solutions haven’t yet, the LADOS absolutely kills that argument.
It’s the C2 layer that fuses every sensor, drone, robot, and effector across the portfolio into ONE operational core.
Sense → decide → orchestrate → execute → assess. Full mission cycle, one architecture.
And it sits alongside SkyWeaver, the Palantir powered agentic AI layer running ISR-to-assault across Group 2-4 UAS, stratospheric assets, and satellites. Unreal shit.
So now the stack looks like this:
- SkyWeaver is the brain (AI, mission autonomy, targeting)
- LADOS is the nervous system (C2, orchestration, execution)
- and the portfolio contains all of the body (drones, robots, sensors, effectors)
This is the systems-of-systems model that NATO buyers are screaming for. Nobody wants 15 vendors and 15 screens. They want integrated autonomy, and Eric and team are delivering just that.
There is significance as to where this offering is being introduced. Launching at Eurosatory in Paris is deliberate. European/NATO buyers, Middle East, homeland security agencies and others want non-US-prime alternatives or already buy Ondas hardware.
With LADOS it seems Ondas is running a similar playbook to Anduril Lattice, but in markets Anduril does not dominate. US Army awarded Anduril 20B ceiling for lattice… what are the EU and other NATO countries willing to pay for a similar C2 layer, and arguably wider webbed system than Lattice?
Hardware gets you in the door. Software architecture is what makes you indispensable.
The flywheel is spinning.
LongAF
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