Air Defense

Fast, iterative, and scalable decision-making.

Ingest real-time radar tracks, simulate thousands of potential intercept sequences faster-than-real-time, and surface a prioritised, value-weighted engagement plan to the commander – ensuring finite interceptor resources are deployed against the threats that matter most.

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Problem

Current Barriers to Effective Air Defense

Cognitive Overload

Operators cannot assess hundreds of inbound tracks, impact points, evaluate risk, and allocate intercepts within a decision window of seconds to minutes.

Suboptimal Resource Allocation

Without computational support, operators default to nearest-threat engagement logic, rather than value-weighted prioritisation.

Lack of Outcome Simulation

Existing systems are unable to run thousands of simulations to provide commanders the best intercept plan in real time and cannot be deployed in the field.

Integration gap

Real-time data fusion from different systems and standards into a prioritised engagement recommendation is unachievable without purpose-built AI/simulation layer.

Solution

Our Solution

Product Use within Capability

Dominate the Operational Tempo

[ 01 ]

Real-Time Sensor Fusion & Track Management
- Ingest sensor feeds via NATO/Industry standard data links
- Create a Common Operating Picture
- Predict Trajectory and Impact point of inbound tracks using simulation
- Build probability distribution of impact zones by simulating each track thousands of times, in faster-than-real-time
- Identify munition type, speed profile, likely warhead yield, and flight dynamics using best-in-class data sources/models
[ 02 ]

AI & simulation-driven Intercept Prioritisation
- Cross-reference integrated data sources for each predicted impact zone
- Generate thousands of Courses of Action with agentic AI
- Simulate Courses of Action in parallel for analysis and ranking
- Rank plans against casualty avoidance, asset protection, interceptor expenditure, residual threat picture, commander intent and rules of engagement
[ 03 ]

Autonomous Effector Tasking
- Maintain a human-in-the-loop model
- Support autonomous tasking of SAM batteries, autonomous platforms and other effectors
- Automatic translation into engagement orders and transmission to effector systems via tactical data links – upon commander authorisation

Benefit

Hadean Operational Impact

Hadean’s Air Defense solution addresses the fundamental mismatch between the speed and scale of modern mass strikes and the cognitive limits of human operators under pressure:

Decision Advantage

More threats assessed
More intercept options considered
Decision advantage over the adversary

Cost Reduction

Reduce interceptor wastage & use of lower cost interceptors
Reduce cognitive burden

Cost Avoidance

Reduce asset loss
Reduce infrastructure damage

Sceptre is a modular, multi-role and scalable tech stack that draws together best-in-class capacity for the security and prosperity of the UK and her allies.

Integrating Palantir Foundry with Hadean’s AI wargaming and Command & Control products to navigate the full mission lifecycle – from training to live operations, for the UK, and our allies.

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Better-Informed Decision Making

Hadean is at the forefront of the UK’s defense tech ecosystem. We have developed world leading software which is used by defense organisations and militaries around the world.

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FAQS

Common Questions

How fast can the system produce an intercept recommendation?

dominAI’s simulation engine runs in faster-than-real-time in parallel across cloud or edge compute. Candidate intercept plans can be generated and ranked within seconds of sensor data ingestion – the system is designed to pace itself to the operational tempo.

How does the system handle saturation attacks designed to overwhelm AI too?

The system scales horizontally – adding compute capacity increases the number of candidate plans evaluated, not the processing time. Unlike a human operator whose cognitive load collapses under saturation, dominAI’s performance degrades gracefully: even with 1,000 simultaneous tracks, it produces a prioritised recommendation. Uncertainty in threat classification is explicitly modelled and surfaced to the commander.

Can this integrate with our existing sensors & effects?

dominAI supports standard tactical data links. Interoperability with NATO & allied partner systems has been validated at NATO’s CWIX exercise.

How do you validate the predictions & models?

We use a mix of best-in-class models, including commercial, open source, and Hadean-built models. For missiles, this is the best-in-class commercially available models, which are used for air-to-air combat on existing platforms.

Does this create a single point of failure for our air defence?

dominAI is designed to degrade gracefully. It can operate air-gapped and fully offline, requiring no external connectivity. If the C2 layer is degraded or destroyed, existing fire control systems revert to manual operation – dominAI augments rather than replaces existing capabilities. Redundant deployment architectures (multiple nodes or instances) are supported.

27 Feb 2026