- Six companies integrated a two-vehicle autonomous counter-drone Hunter-Killer UGV system at Operation Jailbreak and demonstrated it to the Secretary of the Army in under a week. - AZAK provided both UGV platforms, with HavocAI autonomy software, Leonardo DRS ACHR radar, Allen Control Systems Bullfrog weapon, Picogrid integration, and Anduril Lattice command and control. Six defense technology companies walked into a demonstration event with separate products and walked out days later with a fully integrated autonomous hunter-killer ground vehicle system, presenting it directly to the Secretary of the Army in what participants described as proof that the American defense industry can move at a speed the Pentagon’s traditional procurement culture rarely achieves. The demonstration, conducted under the name Operation Jailbreak, compressed what would normally be months of integration work into a matter of days and produced a functioning two-vehicle unmanned system capable of detecting aerial threats and engaging them without a human operator in the targeting loop. The event was hosted by Dr. Alex Miller, the Chief Technology Officer of the Army, and Colonel Daiyaan, with AZAK Inc., a robotics company focused on unmanned ground vehicle platforms, anchoring the hardware side of the collaboration. The six-company team assembled for Operation Jailbreak divided the problem into distinct capability layers and then integrated them into a single coherent system architecture, with each company contributing the component it knew best rather than attempting to build the entire capability stack from scratch. AZAK provided both unmanned ground vehicle platforms that served as the physical foundation of the system. The two vehicles, designated “The Hunter” and “The Killer” by the team, represent AZAK’s wheel-centric unmanned ground vehicle design, a platform architecture built around large-diameter wheels that provide mobility across difficult terrain while maintaining a compact overall footprint and a modular payload interface that allows operators
Six companies built an <b>autonomous</b> hunter-killer robot in under a week
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