Arlo Industries: We track drones and missiles without radar 🚀
We build sensors that track drones & missiles better than radars
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YC · launched May 26, 2026 · 55 upvotes (top 13%) · 2 views
Niche: geospatial and transport tracking platforms · 50 launches, 7 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Security
- Hardware & robotics
- B2B
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Hard Tech
- Hardware
- Defense
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Could you build this?
No Passive real-time 3D tracking of drones and missiles relies on proprietary physical sensor hardware (acoustic, RF, or optical), distributed edge sensor fusion, and advanced physics/defense signal processing algorithms.
What it would actually take: The solution requires custom-engineered passive sensing nodes (measuring RF emissions, acoustic signatures, or passive optical/thermal cues) with ruggedized edge compute. The software needs distributed time-difference-of-arrival (TDOA) multilateration algorithms and Kalman filtering running over an ad-hoc mesh network in GNSS-denied environments. Building this demands defense aerospace engineers, signal processing researchers, and RF/embedded hardware specialists.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 153 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #22 of 154 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 200 days after the earliest competitor.
- DroneTector: high-resolution radars to detect small drones · yc · 2026-02-19 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- Vernius Systems - Autonomous radar guidance for interceptor drones · yc · 2026-08-24 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Tenet - Low-cost, mass-produced strike drones · yc · 2026-05-29 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Impact Drones: Air Defense as a Service for Civilian Infrastructure · yc · 2026-08-04 · 22 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Maquoketa Research: Guidance systems for one-way attack drones · yc · 2026-06-01 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Seeing Systems: Modular Autonomous Drones for Modern Warfare · yc · 2026-02-02 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Batear · hn · 2026-03-21 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Kairox Systems: Drones that can fly and swim · yc · 2026-11-12 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.45
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