Weaponized Drone Build Class — 1 Week MTT

Hands-On 1-Week Weaponized Drone Build Class for Bomb Technicians

This 1-week Mobile Training Team (MTT) course extends our 1-week Construction Build Class with a full focus on the weaponized sUAS threat. Students build flight-ready drones equipped with inert munition surrogates, multi-stage safe-arm circuitry, and the same proximity, GPS, and command triggering profiles encountered in current threat reporting. All payloads are inert training surrogates — no live or simulated explosives are used.

Built for HDS-trained public safety bomb technicians and military EOD personnel whose render-safe-approach mission set now includes weaponized commercial drones. The only path to confidently rendering safe what threat actors have built is to build it yourself first.

Daily Structure

• Day 1 — Electronics & Initiation Refresher. Soldering, multimeter, LiPo safety + improvised initiation switches (microswitch, reed, tilt, light/IR, mercury-simulator) wired into low-voltage gates driving relays and MOSFETs.
• Day 2 — Multi-Stage Safe-Arm Circuit Design. Double-redundant safe-arm logic, manual safety pins, time-and-motion arming sequences, dis-arming and safing circuits, integration with onboard radio command links.
• Day 3 — Drone Build I. Frame, motors, ESC, power harness, smoke-stop test on a 5-inch FPV / loitering airframe.
• Day 4 — Drone Build II + Multi-Payload Integration. Flight controller, ELRS receiver, video transmitter, FPV camera. Integration of three different inert payload types — mortar surrogate, bomblet surrogate, and shaped-charge surrogate — with servo-actuated release linkages for each.
• Day 5 — Triggering Profiles + Range Day. Proximity (mmWave / IR), GPS geofence, manual command, and time-on-target triggering profiles. Outdoor range day: maiden flight + inert payload drops with each triggering profile + post-drop forensic-marker walk-through.

What’s Included

• 10 complete 5-inch quadcopter build kits (frame, 4 motors, 4-in-1 ESC, F7-class FC, VTX, FPV camera, ELRS receiver, props, 2 LiPo)
• 10 per-student compact pocket-style radio transmitters with ExpressLRS modules
• 10 per-student analog FPV goggles for line-of-sight piloting
• 10 multi-payload kits — three inert payload types (mortar / bomblet / shaped-charge surrogates) with 3D-printed bodies and weighted inserts to match real munition flight profiles
• 10 multi-stage safe-arm circuit kits (relays, MOSFETs, manual safety pins, redundant logic ICs)
• 10 triggering sensor kits — mmWave proximity, IR proximity, GPS module
• 10 per-student soldering kits (60W iron, multimeter, helping-hands, wire/heatshrink) — students keep
• 10 improvised initiation switch kits (microswitch, reed, tilt, mercury-simulator, IR)
• Shared classroom equipment: digital scope, hot-air rework, ESD mats, programming rigs (instructor-supplied)
• Printed lab guides + curriculum materials + STL files
• Lead instructor × 1 week, travel + lodging + per-diem to your unit (CONUS, OCONUS, or APO)
• Two-instructor upgrade available at +$4,000 for a 5:1 student ratio
• APO shipping consolidated through Improvised Electronics San Diego
• Post-course AAR + digital training reference package

Logistics

• Class size: 10 students (12 max with 2nd instructor at additional cost)
• Lead time: 8 weeks from PO to class start
• Delivery: MTT to your unit, or CONUS-hosted at IE San Diego
• All payloads are inert training surrogates only — no live or simulated explosives at any stage of the course.
• GSA Contract 47QRAA24D0055 | UEI NX6AA1JY7UF4 | NET30 / PO accepted