The Problem
Modern warfare generates 50,000+ data points per second — outpacing human cognition.
Hypersonic threats arrive in under 30 seconds. Traditional C2 systems measure kill chains in minutes, not milliseconds. Cognitive bottlenecks, decision latency, and coordination gaps across five warfighting domains create critical vulnerabilities that peer adversaries will exploit.
The Flagship
VYUHA व्यूह
Strategic Battle Formation
Autonomous Multi-Agent Command & Control System
Six specialized AI agents — SENTINEL, GUARDIAN, POSEIDON, CIPHER, ORBITAL, and STRATEGIST — operating in precise coordination across Air, Land, Sea, Cyber, and Space domains. Human-on-the-loop architecture compresses the kill chain from minutes to milliseconds while maintaining commander authority over critical decisions.
SENSOR FUSION LAYER
50,000+ Data Points Per Second
AESA radar, SIGINT, EO/IR, cyber sensors, and space-based ISR — normalized, correlated, and fused in real time.
Proven Capabilities
Sovereign technologies engineered for the most demanding conditions.
ORBITAL COMMAND
Space Domain Intelligence & Satellite Operations
Orbital surveillance, GNSS resilience, and post-quantum secured satellite communications under sovereign control.
POST-QUANTUM SECURITY
Indigenous Cryptographic Primitives
Indigenous, NIST-PQC-aligned cryptographic primitives for sovereign, quantum-safe encryption.
GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE
Multi-Domain Sensor Fusion
Fusing intelligence across land, sea, air, space, cyber, and the electromagnetic spectrum into one picture.
SOFTWARE DEFINED RADIO
Sovereign Wideband SDR
Cognitive SDR platform — the data plane of VYUHA व्यूह for spectrum dominance and electronic warfare.
UAV NAVIGATION
GNSS-Denied Resilience
AI-predictive offline navigation for GPS-denied environments. Active flight-test pilot programme.
AI CRYPTO INTEL
Cryptographic Intelligence
Sovereign LLM stack for cryptographic evaluation, vulnerability assessment and threat intelligence.
The Six Agents
VYUHA व्यूह Multi-Agent AI Core
Each agent is a 25-35 billion parameter model trained on domain-specific datasets, operating under the STRATEGIST fusion layer for coordinated multi-domain response.
SENTINEL
Air Domain
500+ tracks · 99.2% accuracy · <200ms classification
Real-time air picture compilation, hostile aircraft classification (F-16 vs Su-35), trajectory prediction with 15-minute lookahead, and BVR/WVR engagement recommendations. Trained on 50M+ flight hours of radar data.
GUARDIAN
Land Domain
100M+ sat images · Counter-battery · CBRN modeling
Armored vehicle identification, artillery trajectory analysis, optimal defensive positioning based on terrain, IED/mine threat prediction, and CBRN plume modeling using convolutional neural networks with geographic attention.
POSEIDON
Sea Domain
Global AIS · 72hr submarine prediction · AUV swarms
Surface vessel tracking and classification, submarine probability mapping, ASW sensor coordination and search optimization, anti-ship missile defense, and autonomous underwater vehicle swarm coordination.
CIPHER
Cyber Domain
0.001% false positive · 1B+ malware samples · APT attribution
Real-time intrusion detection, APT campaign identification and nation-state attribution, automated threat containment, offensive cyber effect planning, and communications jamming coordination via graph neural networks.
ORBITAL
Space Domain
7-day prediction · ASAT defense · GPS jamming mitigation
Satellite tracking and conjunction analysis, ASAT threat detection with avoidance maneuver calculation, space weather assessment, and GPS/GNSS jamming detection using physics-informed neural networks with orbital mechanics constraints.
STRATEGIST
Fusion Layer
Cross-domain correlation · COA generation · Coalition sharing
Unified operational picture synthesis, strategic-level situation assessment, commander's decision support with explainable reasoning chains, and long-term trend analysis. The meta-reasoning orchestrator that coordinates all five domain agents.
The Edge Constellation
VYUHA व्यूह — Formations, not just a mesh.
Sanskrit military doctrine, encoded in software-defined hardware. The Tier 3 / Tier 4 sensor and EW edge that feeds VYUHA व्यूह's STRATEGIST. One sovereign SDR substrate. Three roles per node. Six agents above it.
Three Doctrinal Formations
Battle formations from the Mahabharata, mapped onto sensor topology.
Chakravyuha
चक्रव्यूहWHEEL FORMATION
Concentric Perimeter Defence
Inner ring of 4–6 nodes at 50m for ID-grade coverage. Outer ring of 8–12 nodes at 200m for early warning. Acoustic gunshot detection nodes triangulate via TDoA — three nodes hearing the same shot, sub-millisecond clock sync via PTP, localise a shooter to ~5m at 300m range.
Forward bases · Ammo dumps · Radar sites
Suchivyuha
सूचीव्यूहNEEDLE FORMATION
Linear Corridor Surveillance
Nodes spaced at the classification range of the chosen lens (~140m stock, ~480m telephoto). Each node hands off track IDs to neighbours via ReID embeddings — a single intruder generates one persistent track across the whole formation.
Road convoys · Pipeline corridors · Border fences
Garuda-vyuha
गरुड़व्यूहEAGLE FORMATION
Wide-Area Sparse Coverage
Beak nodes (long telephoto) point at chokepoints. Wings use wide lenses for area awareness. Tail nodes carry SATCOM uplink. Latency-sensitive cueing flows beak → wings; bandwidth-heavy uploads reverse-flow into the tail.
Theater-wide ISR · Multi-domain coordination
SDRStrike PRO — The Spine
One radio, three roles. A node serves as Karna by day, Astra during contact, Vani when a relay drops.
A software-defined radio is the only edge component that is simultaneously a sensor, a comms device, and an effector. Same hardware — antenna, ADC, FPGA, baseband — runs three different software loadouts. One BoM line, three roles. That economic fact is what makes VYUHA व्यूह's edge actually deployable at scale.
AS SENSOR
Spectrum monitoring, SIGINT, direction-finding, specific emitter ID, passive radar, GNSS-spoof detection
AS COMMS
Cognitive multiband mesh, anti-jam tactical links, software-defined SATCOM and secure data links — all under PQC
AS EFFECTOR
Reactive RF jamming, protocol-aware drone takedown, GNSS spoofing for soft-kill, deception emissions
The Living Constellation
Watch data flow from sensors through the SDR spine into VYUHA व्यूह's STRATEGIST.
How Edge Feeds VYUHA व्यूह
Every edge node maps to one or more of the six agents. STRATEGIST orchestrates the cross-feeds.
VYUHA व्यूह Platform
Built for machine-speed warfare.
Kill Chain: Sensor to Shooter in 8–45 Seconds
FIND
2-5s
FIX
1-3s
TRACK
Cont.
TARGET
3-10s
ENGAGE
2-15s
ASSESS
Var.
Human authorization gates at TARGET and ENGAGE phases. Abort capability at any stage.
VYUHA व्यूह Roadmap
Current
Multi-Domain C2
- 6 AI agents across 5 domains
- F2T2EA kill chain automation
- Standards-based tactical data links
Q3 2026
Swarm & Hypersonic
- 500+ unit swarm coordination
- Enhanced hypersonic defense
- Cyber-kinetic integration
Q2 2027
Quantum & Cognitive EW
- Quantum-resistant crypto
- 7-day battlespace forecast
- Autonomous defense option
2028
Multi-Theater
- Multi-theater coordination
- AI-to-AI coalition ops
- Directed energy optimization
Why ShortOrbit
Why the Indian defence ecosystem is choosing ShortOrbit.
10-100× Faster Decision Cycle
Kill chain in 8-45 seconds vs. 5-15 minutes for legacy C2. 285,000+ decisions per hour sustained throughput.
Multi-Agent Architecture
No single point of AI failure. Six specialized agents with domain expertise — not one brittle monolithic model.
Full Explainability
Every recommendation includes reasoning chains, confidence intervals, and alternative options. Commanders understand the AI.
Human Authority Preserved
Human-on-the-loop architecture. Engagement authorization gates, ROE compliance, abort capability at any phase.
Technology Doctrine
What we believe.
Human-on-the-loop, not human-out-of-the-loop.
Autonomous execution with human oversight. Engagement authorization gates, ROE compliance, abort capability at any phase. Lethal decisions require human authority.
Explainability is not optional.
All recommendations include reasoning chains, confidence metrics, alternative options with tradeoffs, and historical precedent references. Black-box AI has no place in C2.
Graceful degradation, not catastrophic failure.
VYUHA maintains capability even with partial system loss, degraded comms, or compromised sensors. No single point of failure.
Speed without recklessness.
8-45 second kill chains with human gates. Sub-100ms inference with confidence thresholds. The system is fast because it is certain, not because it skips verification.
Sovereignty of compute, sovereignty of decisions.
Sovereign compute in classified enclaves. Quantum-resistant cryptography. No foreign dependency — you own the stack, end to end.
About Us
ShortOrbit Defence
An Indian deep-tech defence company operating at the intersection of cybersecurity, cryptography, defence AI, and secure communications. Co-founded by Harsh Vardhan Singh Rao and Runjhun Singh Rana, ShortOrbit is building a sovereign stack of defence technology, designed and built in India.
One connected family of products — not a pile of separate tools.
Flagship Products
CipherStrike Pro
Post-quantum visual cryptographic platform with hardware-accelerated encryption meeting NIST PQC standards
SDRStrike PRO
Indigenous software-defined radio platform — one node that can sense the spectrum, carry secure communications and act, with an on-board cognitive core
CryptoDoc
Enterprise-grade, AI-powered secure cryptographic documentation system for classified environments
Our Capabilities
One team — the whole stack of sovereign security.
From the mathematics of the algorithm to the silicon that runs it and the system that guards it — ten deep capabilities, one connected family.
Cryptography
Artificial intelligence
Secure systems
Defence & sovereignty
Our People & Experience
Seven years of research. A lifetime of service.
- We work with some of India's most senior defence scientists — many with 30+ years of experience.
- Their past work has already helped protect India's security.
- They are among the country's finest experts in cryptography, radios and quantum-safe security.
- These specialists work only with ShortOrbit — talent that is very hard to find anywhere.
Why it matters
Rare expertise, focused on one goal — making everyday security strong enough for the years ahead.
Name kept private
Lead Cryptographer
30+ years · quantum-safe encryption.
Name kept private
Quantum Research Lead
Next-generation encryption methods.
Name kept private
Radio & Signals Lead
30+ years · secure military communications.
Name kept private
Code-Breaking Lead
Finding weaknesses before attackers do.
Founders & Advisors
The people you would work with.
.png)
Harsh Vardhan Singh
Cryptography & defence technology · products used by 10M+ people.
Runjhun Singh Rana
14+ years building large technology products.
.png)
Rakesh Agarwal
25+ years in analytics · founder, GenxAi & ACG India.
Sanjay Singhvi
Senior industry leader & strategic advisor.
.png)
Manoj Chugh
Helped build India's internet · former Mahindra Group board.
Deployment Tiers
From Strategic Command to the Tactical Edge.
Combatant Command HQ
Full 6-agent deployment. 10,000+ tracks. 72-hour autonomous ops. 50+ operator positions.
Division / Carrier Strike Group
Full VYUHA with domain emphasis. 5,000+ tracks. Deployable shelters or shipboard.
Brigade Combat Team
VYUHA Edge with 3 primary agents. 1,000+ tracks. Vehicle-mounted. 4-hour setup.
Individual Platform
Single-agent modules. LRU form factor. Field-hardened for fighter, ship, or vehicle integration.
The Mission
The next war will be won at
machine speed.
285,000+ decisions per hour. Six AI agents across five domains. Sensor-to-shooter in seconds. VYUHA व्यूह is the future of autonomous command and control.