AeroFoundry

AeroFoundry is a Brazilian unmanned-aircraft manufacturer, founded in 2011, that markets its current military product line under the "Shaheen" and "Shaheen Works" brands through a subsidiary offering. The company's own site describes its portfolio as combining AeroFoundry-designed platforms with selected third-party airframes to cover layered intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR/ISTAR) and kinetic-payload missions, built to military standards using carbon fibre reinforced with Kevlar.

AeroFoundry's current catalogue centres on five platforms: the Yaró, a mid-to-high-altitude, long-endurance, long-range ISR/ISTAR aircraft; the Köpari family, offered in Border Patrol, Maritime and Battlefield ISR configurations; the Texo, a tandem tilt-wing VTOL family for cargo logistics and urban ISR; and the Siemarí and Biguá, respectively a loitering munition and a turbojet-powered munition platform for precision strikes. The company says every aircraft in the line shares a common AI-assisted visual-navigation and targeting architecture to simplify operator training across the fleet. AeroFoundry's catalogue no longer includes the backpack-portable Hewë-e tailsitter micro aerial vehicle that the company previously marketed for agricultural and surveillance use.

AeroFoundry states that its aircraft are delivered with a serial-numbered flight certificate and a flight-and-maintenance manual, and that its customers include military, internal-security, intelligence and law-enforcement agencies as well as systems and payload integrators. The company's site does not name specific customers or operating countries for its aircraft.