ARCYN Defense announced the opening of its second seed financing round following the completion of its initial seed round earlier this year.
The company is developing a kinetic energy system designed to counter unmanned aerial systems and other airborne threats affecting the modern battlefield. The new financing round will support accelerated development, testing, and field validation of ARCYN Defense’s counter-UAS platform, Iron Rain.
Iron Rain combines patent-pending kinetic innovation, configurable projectile architecture, edge-AI-enabled targeting, and a high-rate-of-fire design. The system is intended to deliver precise and scalable protection against emerging aerial threats.
ARCYN Defense said its system is being designed to use edge AI, advanced fire-control integration, and modular kinetic effects to detect, track, prioritize, and defeat drone threats in real time. Unlike systems that rely primarily on jamming, cyber effects, directed energy, or interceptor drones, ARCYN is intended to provide a rapidly deployable and platform-integrated kinetic option for contested environments.
The company said this approach is designed to address threats such as autonomous drones, electronic warfare-hardened drones, and high-volume drone attacks.
ARCYN Defense recently signed a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement with the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Armaments Center. The company is also preparing to participate in an upcoming Department of War field trial.
In addition, ARCYN Defense said it is engaged in active discussions with major defense systems integrators as it advances toward demonstration, validation, and broader deployment.
The company expects proceeds from the second seed round to support additional engineering, prototype refinement, field testing, strategic partnerships, and preparation for broader commercialization.
ARCYN Defense is a U.S.-based defense technology company developing next-generation air defense systems for contested environments. The company’s technologies combine kinetic innovation with AI to deliver high-precision protection against emerging threats, with a focus on counter-autonomy, battlefield resilience, scalable defense, and low-cost kinetic defeat for military and civilian infrastructure.
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“Recent conflicts have made clear that drones are no longer a future threat. They are a present and growing danger to military forces, critical infrastructure, and civilians. Many existing systems were designed for a different era of warfare. ARCYN Defense is building a system intended for today’s battlefield, where speed, scale, precision, and affordability all matter.”
Retired Lieutenant General Eric Wesley, Senior Defense Advisor to ARCYN Defense
“Much of the Counter-UAS market is still focused on solutions that can be expensive, narrow in application, or difficult to scale in contested environments. ARCYN is building a complementary kinetic layer designed for speed, portability, precision, and affordability. Our goal is not simply to detect or disrupt drones, but to give operators a practical way to defeat them at scale.”
Dr. Aaron Poynton, CEO of ARCYN Defense
“Our technical objective is to deliver a precise, adaptable, and operationally relevant kinetic defense capability for modern aerial threats. By combining our edge-AI targeting, real-time trajectory prediction, and configurable projectile architecture, we are building a modular, high-rate-of-fire, portable, hypersonic defense system designed to respond quickly, integrate across platforms, and scale with the evolving threat environment at a low cost per defeat.”
Dr. Fazel Farahmand, CTO of ARCYN Defense
