Facts

• Company: FlyFocus
• Product type: UAV
• Status: commercial
• Capability focus: Defense
• Website: https://flyfocus.pl/product/cableguard/

Profile sections

• Summary
• Overview
• Market context
• Audience
• Workflow
• Capability
• Deployment environment
• Positioning tags
• Specifications
• Sources

Summary

CableGuard is FlyFocus cable-protection and tether-management product for UAV operations. It is designed to reduce cable wear, snagging and handling risk during field deployment, supporting safer long-range or tethered drone workflows.

Overview

CableGuard is FlyFocus cable-protection and tether-management product for UAV operations. It is designed to reduce cable wear, snagging and handling risk during field deployment, supporting safer long-range or tethered drone workflows.

Market context

CableGuard is FlyFocus' tethered UAV system for persistent aerial observation with emergency battery-supported detachment.

• Target environment: Border areas, events, infrastructure sites, industrial facilities, tactical overwatch zones and other fixed monitoring locations.
• Workflow context: Persistent overwatch, tethered surveillance, inspection support, strategic-area monitoring and protected power/data transmission.
• Customer context: Defense, security, infrastructure and industrial operators needing longer-duration aerial monitoring than battery-only drones can provide.
• Deployment model: Commercial tethered UAV system sold as part of FlyFocus' defense and government-oriented aerial systems portfolio.
• Commercial maturity: Commercial product with published technical details and payload options.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on site permissions, tether altitude, wind conditions, payload needs, transport setup, safety approvals and operator training.
• Market position: Persistent-overwatch UAV positioned between mobile drones and fixed mast surveillance systems.
• Adjacent products: FlyFocus BIRDIE, Elistair tethered UAVs, Drone Aviation Winch Aerostat, Skydio X10

Audience

Infrastructure

Workflow

Persistent overwatch, tethered surveillance, inspection support, strategic-area monitoring and protected power/data transmission.

Capability

defense

Deployment environment

Border areas, events, infrastructure sites, industrial facilities, tactical overwatch zones and other fixed monitoring locations.

Positioning tags

• Audience: Infrastructure
• Workflow: Persistent overwatch, tethered surveillance, inspection support, strategic-area monitoring and protected power/data transmission.
• Capability: defense
• Deployment environment: Border areas, events, infrastructure sites, industrial facilities, tactical overwatch zones and other fixed monitoring locations.

Specifications

• Endurance: Tethered operation for persistent surveillance; up to 30 minutes free flight after detachment
• Range: Up to 10 km on CE standards and 15 km on FCC standards through tracking antenna with encrypted video and data link
• Flight Time: Up to 30 minutes after tether detachment
• Communication: Tracking antenna with digital encrypted video and data link
• Ip Rating: Waterproof system components for UAV, ground power station, antenna tracker, and GCS
• Battery System: free-flight battery after detachment; battery replacement <30 s
• Launch Recovery: Tethered operation with remote tether detachment for free flight
• Task Scope: Persistent surveillance, civilian security, and law-enforcement monitoring
• Operational Role: Tethered surveillance UAV with detachable free-flight capability