Product · Multi-domain
Hailstorm
Wardstone's interceptor product line: first described as a space-based interceptor that releases high-speed buckshot clouds against hypersonic missiles, later as a mass-producible modular interceptor including a ground-launched variant.
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Wardstone's interceptor product line: first described as a space-based interceptor that releases high-speed buckshot clouds against hypersonic missiles, later as a mass-producible modular interceptor including a ground-launched variant.
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Technologies2
Supply chain inputs1
- Solid rocket motors
Subsystem
US supply consolidated from six makers to two between 2000 and 2015 (Aerojet Rocketdyne, now L3Harris, and Orbital ATK, now Northrop Grumman). DoD calls the narrow supplier base a bottleneck and has funded new entrants (Anduril, X-Bow, Ursa Major) and sub-tier suppliers through DPA Title III, while Northrop and L3Harris expand capacity.
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Sources2
- 1.CompanyWardstone | LinkedIn
Wardstone · Supports: System, System · system input:solid-rocket-motors
“Hailstorm, our mass producible interceptor platform, is designed to supplement western interceptor production and rapidly fill this gap.”
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Y Combinator · Supports: System
“We will do this with our first product, Hailstorm, that deploys high speed clouds of buckshot to kinetically destroy hypersonic missiles.”
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