One airframe family. Two missions. Built in four machines. A pearlescent-light read of six shortlisted Chinese suppliers against two live Hyperlog missions — thaqib.ch sovereign airspace defense and geometals.ai autonomous mineral survey — plus the four pieces of capital equipment that turn raw materials into a flying drone anywhere on the planet.
Every model name is verbatim from a real catalog. Every CAPEX number traces to the THAQIB 7-container plan. ADR + AMRT sensor stack appears alongside proven mag/hyperspectral/gamma-ray with the honest fine print — "vendor-marketed, not peer-reviewed; drone-borne ADR is the partnership we are pitching, not a shipping product."
The interceptor is fast, kinetic, and short-endurance. The surveyor is slow, sensor-heavy, and long-endurance. They share the same flight stack, the same modular payload bay, and the same Shenzhen supply chain — only the airframe size and the nose change.
Each row links a component to a verbatim catalog model. Rows flagged GAP are explicitly not yet covered by any of the six shortlisted suppliers — those are the first RFIs.
| Component | Choice | Source |
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Mag/hyperspectral/LiDAR/gamma-ray are real, peer-reviewed, drone-mounted today. Adrok ADR + CC Explorations AMRT are the R&D frontier — vendor-marketed, currently ground/satellite-based. AMT (audio-frequency magnetotellurics) anchors credibility as the peer-reviewed sister technique.
0–100 fit score per supplier × per mission. Numbers reasoned from catalog evidence — each bar carries a tooltip explaining the score.
Weighted across the three missions by expected unit volume — % of recommended supplier spend.
Pick a SKU, drag units + markup + factory CAPEX share. Live revenue, profit, margin and break-even.
Seven 40-foot HC ISO containers on a 25 m × 25 m concrete pad. Hover any container to see its machine occupancy.
Five candidate host cities for the four-machine line. Click any glowing dot for shipping ETA, host-partner placeholder, and the dual-use export-licence regime.