The sentry that flies.
Kestrel lifts off like a drone, flies to high ground, anchors and holds the line for up to 72 hours. When the threat moves, it moves. One operator commands the whole fleet from Meridian.
Towers are where threats used to be.
Fixed cameras and guard posts are mapped by adversaries in a week. Drones see everything but stay up for minutes. Kestrel holds ground like a tower and moves like an aircraft.
Launch from anywhere
From a Roost on a pickup, a trailer, a rooftop or a ship's deck. Nine seconds from command to airborne.
Take the high ground
Kestrel picks its own perch — a ridgeline, a roof edge, a pylon platform — and anchors on slopes up to 25°.
Watch like a tower
Rotors stow, the sensor mast rises and the unit holds a 340° arc on a fraction of the power of hovering flight.
Move before they adapt
Meridian repositions sentries on a schedule, on a detection or on an operator's word. Your posture never stays mapped.
One fleet. Six machines. One map.
Every Tencer system speaks Meridian natively, so a home robot, a perimeter mast and a flying sentry are commanded the same way.
One operator. Forty sentries.
Meridian fuses every Tencer machine with the radars, cameras and access control you already own — then asks a human before anything consequential happens.
Escalate TRK-0193 to counter-UAS partner team?
Built for four very different rules of engagement.
The same machine, configured for a forward base, a city block, a substation or a family estate.
Defense
Force protection, forward operating bases, expeditionary perimeters and contested logistics nodes.
Read the brief →Police · Public safetyLaw enforcement
Overwatch for tactical teams, large events and search operations — with observation and deterrence payloads only.
Read the brief →Energy · Water · Ports · DataCritical infrastructure
Substations, pipelines, ports, data centers and rail yards that cannot be guarded post by post.
Read the brief →Estates · Family officesPrivate & residential
Estates, compounds, vineyards and remote properties where the nearest response is twenty minutes out.
Read the brief →Trusted where failure is not an option.
Our customers rarely let us name them. Here is who they are.
“We closed eleven fixed guard posts and our response time still dropped by two-thirds. The perimeter now rearranges itself every night.”
Director of corporate security · Top-5 U.S. utility
Questions buyers ask first.
Deeper answers live in our guides — on drone-in-a-box vs. redeployable sentries, security robot cost and autonomous perimeter security.
What is a redeployable aerial sentry?
A redeployable sentry is an autonomous unit that flies to an elevated vantage point, lands, anchors itself and then watches the area like a fixed tower. When the threat picture changes it lifts off and relocates. Kestrel combines drone mobility with the endurance of a fixed sensor — hours to days on station instead of the 30–40 minutes a drone can hover.
Who buys Tencer systems?
Defense ministries and armed forces, law-enforcement agencies, critical-infrastructure operators (utilities, ports, data centers, pipelines), enterprise campuses and private estates. Each segment gets a configuration, payload set and authority model appropriate to its legal environment.
Can Tencer robots use force autonomously?
No. Meridian enforces human authorization for any use-of-force action, for every customer, in every configuration. Civil and residential configurations carry observation and deterrence payloads only. Read our responsible-autonomy doctrine.
How fast can a site be operational?
A typical critical-infrastructure site — two to four Kestrels, a Roost and Meridian — is surveyed, configured and on watch within 30 days of contract. Expeditionary kits deploy in under an hour from vehicle arrival.
How is Tencer priced?
Commercial sites subscribe per sentry-hour, starting at $9.80, with hardware, software, maintenance and upgrades included. Government programs can procure outright with sustainment. Warden for homes starts at $3,900. See pricing.
Next step
Put a Kestrel over your site in thirty days.
Request a classified-capable briefing, a live demonstration or a site assessment. A program lead replies within one business day.