Layered counter-drone defence works — until it doesn't. LASTLINE qualifies the individual soldier as the final air defence layer: a measurable standard, a training system to reach it, the effector to hold it, and the sustainment to keep it.
Air defence has always been organised by echelon — strategic, theatre, short-range, very short range. Every echelon has doctrine, procurement and a training standard. One does not: the individual soldier. Drones have made that the echelon under attack.
The capability of a dismounted soldier to detect, identify, track and defeat a small unmanned aerial system inside the terminal engagement band, to a defined and scored standard, sustained through a qualification cycle.
Not a product. A defined, scored standard a soldier passes or fails — recorded, auditable, and revalidated annually.
5–100 m, ~1.4 seconds. Below the reach of every system already procured — precisely where autonomous, non-emitting and fibre-optic drones are hardest to stop.
Australian ILS hub, in-country manufacture under licence, regional supply — the capability is owned, sustained and built by the nation that adopts it.
LASTLINE delivers a qualified soldier — not another platform. Each element of the system exists to reach, score and hold the standard.
A five-day, 40-hour operator course built by Special Forces veterans and world-champion clay shooters — scored on functional neutralisation at 5–100 m.
The Standard →Portable, immersive VR that rehearses the full Detect–Identify–Track–Defeat kill chain anywhere, at a fraction of live-fire cost.
The Training System →The first professional-grade, magazine-fed, AR-pattern 12-gauge — by Genesis Arms. Shared AR manual of arms; 100 m maximum effective range.
The Effector →Purpose-built tungsten counter-UAS loads that pattern tightly to 100 m — the effect the standard is scored against.
The Ammunition →Electronic warfare, directed energy, remote weapon stations and missiles each own an engagement envelope. A residual gap persists at very short range — where fibre-optic, pre-programmed and autonomous drones emit nothing to jam, where a high-end interceptor can cost many multiples of the drone it kills, and where an FPV drone at 100 km/h, 40 m out, gives the soldier roughly 1.4 seconds.
LASTLINE is not a substitute for higher-tier systems and does not compete for their budget. It closes the one layer those systems cannot reach — by qualifying people rather than fielding another platform.
We will stand up a complete, end-to-end capability demonstration at our own expense — VR training, live GEN-12 and 12G cUAS ammunition, and the full kill chain, on your terms — and qualify a cohort against the published standard before any commitment is asked for.