Enabling Ever-Evolving Missile Defense
Vitesse strengthens missile defense systems by providing reliable RF communication, power, and thermal solutions, ensuring fast response, precise targeting, and seamless integration across air, land, sea, and space.
The Vitesse Advantage
The rise of smart weapons requires advanced antenna, reliable power distribution, and efficient thermal management, seamlessly integrated for cross-domain capability.
Specialized Design and Approach
We tailor designs to meet mission-specific requirements for guidance, targeting, and telemetry, ensuring reliable performance across diverse missile systems.
Material Expertise for Extreme Conditions
Our materials expertise supports performance under extreme thermal and mechanical stress while maintaining RF performance of critical flight vehicles.
Vertically Integrated Capabilities
With in-house design, manufacturing, and testing, we streamline development from concept to production, ensuring faster lead times, higher quality, and reduced risk.
Cutting-Edge Missile Technology
We support the most advanced missile technologies, from ICBM to hypersonic applications, enabling high-speed flight and precision in even the most demanding conditions.
Missile and Strategic Defense Solution Areas
Seeker Cooling and Thermal Management for Missile Systems
Effective thermal management is critical for missile systems operating at high speed and under extreme conditions. Vitesse delivers cooling solutions that maintain stable temperatures for sensors, electronics, and control systems across long-range and hypersonic missions.
Capabilities include:
- Phase change material heatsinks for seeker cooling and electronics thermal control
- Liquid cooling assemblies for high-power missile electronics
- Air cooling solutions for SWaP-constrained flight vehicle applications
- High temperature/pressure thermal assemblies for ballistic missile components
- Thermal co-design with antenna and power subsystems for integrated flight hardware
Precision Antennas for Missile Guidance
Missile antenna design demands precise integration and reliable performance under extreme conditions. Vitesse engineers conformal and patch antennas for signal integrity across guidance, telemetry, and GPS applications, ensuring consistent performance from launch through high-speed flight and terminal phase.
Capabilities include:
- Conformal antennas integrated with flight vehicle structure and radome
- Patch antennas for GPS, telemetry, and guidance link applications
- Omni antennas for missile telemetry and range safety
- RF assemblies qualified for high-temperature, high-vibration missile environments
- Antenna design realization for ICBM, hypersonic, and tactical missile platforms
Stable Power for Mission Success
Missile systems require compact, high-reliability power distribution under extreme shock and vibration. Vitesse busbar solutions deliver stable, low-inductance power to guidance, seeker, and control systems, ensuring consistent performance across launch, high-speed flight, and mission-critical operations.
Capabilities include:
- Laminated multi-conductor busbars for missile and flight vehicle power buses
- Single-conductor busbars for strategic defense ground support and launch systems
- Low-inductance, lightweight power distribution for SWaP-critical missile platforms
- Power assemblies qualified for high temperature and high vibration environments
Adversary Deterrence and Mission Success
Partner With Vitesse on Your Missile or Strategic Defense Program
Contact us to find out how Vitesse can solve your missile and strategic defense challenges.