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Armament Readiness / Condition / Expenditure
DERECHO is developing passive external sensing, edge classification, and resilient data movement for armament and munitions readiness across air, ground, maritime, and stockpile environments.
Conceptual illustration · AI-generated · All readouts notional. Systems in development; no fielded system, performance data, or interface is depicted.
One Architecture
Every package in the portfolio is the same three-layer architecture, applied to a different gun, tube, launcher, store, or pallet. Nothing inside the bore. No fire-control interface. No change to baseline weapon operation. If every sensor fails, the crew still has a fully functioning weapon.
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Passive external sensing at the article's reaction or structural path. Nothing inside the bore. No fire-control interface. No change to baseline weapon operation.
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Events are classified locally, on the article itself, by the AUSPEX edge layer. No cloud dependency, no reachback required.
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FORGEMESH moves approved records through degraded and contested networks to maintenance, armory, logistics, and operator users.
Product Families
Tactical Armament Awareness
Ammunition and usage truth from the individual weapon to the formation. The flagship family, in active pilots.
SAA
Active pilotsIndividual, automatic, medium and heavy machine gun, grenade-launcher, and mounted host classes
Live ammunition-state awareness, armory usage records, and maintenance triggers across the formation.
SAA-BD
Active pilotsIndividual and crew-served weapons in fixed and distributed security roles
Position-level ammunition and engagement awareness for base-defense and distributed-security operations centers.
Aircraft Gun Intelligence
Usage, expenditure, thermal, and mount-condition records for aircraft gun systems. One package line across fighter and gunship fleets.
FORNAX-A8
Package definition30mm rotary cannon · A-10-class host concept
Per-gun usage and burst history, thermal exposure, and mount-interface condition for an aging close-air-support fleet.
FORNAX-V20
Package definition20mm rotary cannon · fighter-fleet host concept
One package concept across the most numerous fighter gun family. Automated usage records and fleet-level condition visibility.
FORNAX-G25
Package definition25mm rotary cannon · internally mounted precision installation
Mount-condition and expenditure awareness where every round and every alignment matters.
FORNAX-B30
Package definition30mm chain gun · gunship host concept
Expenditure and thermal-state awareness for precision gunship armament across long station times.
Barrel, Tube & Launcher Health
Retrofit health collars for tubes, barrels, and launchers. Usage history, thermal exposure, and condition-based maintenance without modifying the weapon.
BHC-81
Active hardware build81mm mortar systems
The family's ancestor article: tube usage history and condition awareness, in active hardware build.
BHC-105
Package definition105mm cannon · gunship host concept
The designed scale-up path of the BHC-81 collar: tube-life awareness and thermal state for the largest gun flying.
BHC-70
Package definitionSeven-tube 70mm rocket launcher clusters
Per-tube usage, thermal exposure, and expenditure accounting for launchers the enterprise now consumes at scale.
Crew-Served & Mounted Weapon Awareness
Ammunition-state, usage, thermal, and feed-system health awareness for crew-served and mounted weapons, with zero added operator workload.
ANVIL-CS50
Package definition.50-caliber crew-served and mounted weapons · airborne gunner and vehicle host concepts
Live ammunition state and barrel state at the gunner's position instead of in the gunner's head.
ANVIL-CSM
Package definitionM134-class rotary weapons · rotary-wing and mounted host concepts
Expenditure truth at rates no human can track, and feed-system health awareness at a high level.
Suspension, Release & Captive-Carry Intelligence
Per-article structural usage and release-event records for the unglamorous backbone of every armed sortie.
SUR-R
Package definitionRacks, rails, pylons, release equipment, rotary launchers
Individual structural-usage records, release-event verification, and condition-based inspection for equipment sustained today on trust and teardown.
SUR-C
Package definitionCaptive-carry training stores
An individual exposure record for every training round, condition-based life management instead of calendar condemnation.
Munitions Stockpile Surveillance
Per-asset environmental exposure history and custody continuity from depot to flightline.
MSS
Package definitionPallets, containers, all-up rounds; depot-to-flightline lifecycle
Shock, vibration, temperature, and humidity history with tamper-evident custody-record concepts across organizational handoffs.
Designators are working names for packages in development. A named package is an application of the shared architecture to a host class, not a completed, installed, or contracted product.
Host System Atlas
FORNAX-A8
Hand-kept round counts and no per-gun record of what each system has endured.
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FORNAX-V20
The largest gun population in the fighter fleet, tracked on paper per community.
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FORNAX-G25
A precision internal installation with no in-service telemetry connecting mount condition to accuracy.
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FORNAX-B30 · BHC-105
Precision fires all night, with expenditure and thermal state managed by experience and paper.
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BHC-81
Tube life kept in a paper book while condition-based maintenance waits for data.
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BHC expansion horizon
The same tube-truth problem at the next caliber up.
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BHC expansion horizon
Artillery tubes live and die by fatigue records the enterprise keeps by hand.
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BHC expansion horizon
Self-propelled fires with the same paper tube book behind the breech.
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ANVIL-CS50
Gunners manage ammunition by feel and memory at maximum workload.
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ANVIL-CSM
Ammunition math beyond human tracking, and feed health invisible until failure.
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SAA · ANVIL
Crew-served and individual weapon status are not naturally unified anywhere.
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Ammunition state moves by voice and hand signal; the armory record is a clipboard.
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BHC-70
Launchers reused with no individual usage record, while expenditure explodes.
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Structural fatigue accumulating with no per-serial record, sustained on trust and teardown.
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Condemned by calendar, not by what each round actually absorbed.
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Maritime expansion horizon
Mount-level usage and condition records for surface armament sustained fleet-wide.
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Maritime expansion horizon
High-rate systems whose condition truth today is inspection-interval truth.
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MSS
Individual asset histories nobody records, answered today by destructive lot sampling.
ViewRepresentative host-system imagery: U.S. government photographs are used as public-domain visual information. The appearance of U.S. Department of Defense visual information does not imply or constitute DoD endorsement, and DERECHO technology is not shown installed on any depicted system. Host classes describe candidate applications of the shared architecture, not installations or integrations.
Air Armament
Aircraft gun systems, gunship armament, and rocket launchers share one condition problem: heavy use, hand-kept records. The FORNAX, BHC, and ANVIL package lines apply the shared architecture across the air armament fleet; usage, burst, and thermal history at the article.
Mortar & Artillery
The BHC-81 collar, in active hardware build on 81mm mortar systems, is the ancestor article of the tube-health family, with the 105mm gunship cannon as its designed scale-up path and 120mm and 155mm classes as expansion horizons.
Crew-Served & Mounted
From the door gunner’s .50 to miniguns firing beyond human counting, the ANVIL line and the SAA family are designed to put ammunition state and weapon condition at the position, not in anyone’s head.
Maritime Expansion Horizon
Naval gun tubes and mounts are candidate host classes under evaluation, an expansion horizon, stated exactly as that. No naval package, designator, installation, or trial exists.
Stores & Stockpile
SUR · Stores & Release
Racks, rails, pylons, and captive-carry training stores accumulate structural life with no individual record. SUR is designed to give each article one.
MSS · Stockpile Surveillance
Shock, vibration, temperature, humidity, and custody continuity from depot to flightline, surveillance informed by measured condition instead of the calendar.
Flagship Family
The SAA tactical armament-awareness family is the portfolio’s flagship: physical hardware and edge software undergoing active user evaluation and iterative pilot activity, from individual weapons to crew-served positions.
Physical hardware and supporting software are undergoing active user evaluation and iterative pilot activity.
Build Evidence
Usage-record concept, the artifact every family produces. Illustrative, not sensor data.
Thermal and condition-state concept. Illustrative, not sensor data.
Maturity
Physical hardware and supporting software are undergoing active user evaluation and iterative pilot activity. Currently: the SAA family, including SAA-BD.
Physical hardware is in active build. Currently: BHC-81 on 81mm mortar systems.
A named package concept applying the shared architecture to a host class; interfaces and packaging under definition. Currently: FORNAX, ANVIL, SUR, MSS, BHC-105, BHC-70 packages.
A candidate host class under evaluation. No package, designator, or hardware exists. Currently: 120mm, 105mm artillery, 155mm classes, naval mounts.
The validated core is ready to be packaged for a first pathfinder article. Applied only when a specific pathfinder article is approved for naming.
A host class identified for future study only. Host classes identified for future study only.
Go Deeper
Aircraft guns, gunship armament, rocket launchers.
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Tube health from the 81mm build outward.
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From door guns to miniguns, awareness without workload.
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Naval gun and mount host classes under evaluation.
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Racks, rails, pylons, and captive-carry articles.
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Per-asset history from depot to flightline.
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Public Limitations
DERECHO is a private company. Nothing on this website implies endorsement, sponsorship, approval, certification, or affiliation by the United States Government, the Department of Defense, any military service, or any government agency.
Contact
Sustainment, maintenance, armament, and logistics organizations. DERECHO welcomes conversations about pilots and host articles at the concept stage.
Armament Intelligence systems and packages are in development. Working designators, host classes, and imagery describe design intent and candidate applications, not installations, integrations, contracts, customers, or fielded capability. Pilot activity does not constitute operational fielding, procurement, or government endorsement.