Multi-domain maritime autonomy.
MANIQ Systems is developing mission-adaptive architectures for persistent sensing, mobility and presence across the air–sea boundary.
01 / The mission
The ocean’s surface is a wall. Radio stops at it, sonar stays beneath it. TRAULLER is built to sit right on it.
The maritime environment rewards endurance, responsiveness and intelligent use of energy. MANIQ builds architectures that connect mobility, sensing and power around one objective: greater useful presence, with less operational burden.
TRAULLER T001 · Digital airframe
Rev A0.7 · Design objectives
Introducing TRAULLER.
A 15-foot, Horten-inspired flying wing for persistent maritime operations. It takes off like a helicopter, flies like an aircraft and rests on the water like a boat.
A / Mobility
Mission-adaptive movement. Tilt-rotors set into the wing lift it off a deck, a shoreline or a container; the flying wing carries it in transit.
B / Energy
Powered persistence. Flush solar cells and active energy management let it float on station and recharge between sorties.
C / Payload
Modular sensing. An open mission bay built around adaptable sensing and communications, not a single fixed payload.
TRAULLER is an early-stage system concept. Illustrations and capability descriptions are design objectives, not representations of tested performance or fielded equipment.
Modular mission bay.
An open MOSA bay takes up to 25 lb of interchangeable payload, so one airframe changes mission without changing aircraft.
01 / PAYLOAD
EO / IR
Day and night imaging from altitude, or from the surface while floating on station.
02 / PAYLOAD
SAR
Synthetic aperture radar for wide-area surface search through cloud and weather.
03 / PAYLOAD
LiDAR
High-detail mapping of coastlines, ports and surface contacts.
04 / PAYLOAD
Acoustic & sonobuoy
Passive listening below the surface, with sonobuoy deployment from the bay.
05 / PAYLOAD
Comms relay
Links undersea, surface and air networks across the boundary between them.
06 / PAYLOAD
UUV gateway
A surface node that connects uncrewed underwater vehicles back to the network.
TRAULLER T001
operating wingspan
target max takeoff weight · Group 3
interchangeable payload · 30 lb objective
rechargeable lithium-ion battery
Built for contested water
No runway, long distances, thin logistics and dark comms. TRAULLER is designed around all four.
Runway-independent
Vertical launch and recovery from a ship, a shoreline, a barge or a shipping container.
Lives on the water
Floats between sorties and recharges from flush solar cells, cutting trips home for power.
Open architecture
MOSA payloads and C2 integration, so it plugs into the systems operators already run.
Attritable at scale
Designed to be produced in numbers and fielded as a team, not as a single precious asset.
Configured for the mission.
One airframe, many jobs. The payload and CICADA behaviors change; the aircraft doesn’t.
01
Coastal and port awareness
A persistent watch over bays, island waters and ports of entry, across the surface and the undersea layer.
02
Air–sea communications relay
Radio stops at the surface and sonar stays below it. TRAULLER sits on the boundary and passes the picture across.
03
Wide-area undersea search
Distributed sensing over large ocean areas, deployed forward without a long logistics tail behind it.
04
Dense-traffic awareness
Keeps a clear picture when crowded waterways overwhelm a handful of fixed or ship-borne sensors.
Common questions
Straight answers on the platform, how it operates and how to work with us.
What is TRAULLER?
How does it stay out longer than a typical drone?
Still have questions?
Let’s extend the horizon.
Open to early conversations
For partners, technical collaborators and mission stakeholders
contact@maniqsystems.com