Kraken Kinetics is uniquely qualified to enhance contemporary warfighting capabilities for the United States Armed Forces and its allies on the modern battlefield. We create the kinetic solutions our troops need to succeed, making it our mission and responsibility as Americans to deliver

DEFINITIVE LETHALITY.

DIVE DEEPER
Kraken Kinetics provides bespoke kinetic solutions for modern weapon systems, focusing on unmanned and autonomous delivery platforms.
With decades of specialized DoD experience, we rapidly engineer high-performance warheads and firing devices designed for manufacturing, serving defense technology partners, the US Government, and our allies.

Areas of Excellence.

The Kraken Kinetics' team has extensive real-world experience with the following specific categories of munitions:

TUNGSTEN FRAGMENTATION WARHEADS

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Tailored for the delivery system and mission, to balance the optimal fragment size, fragment velocity, pattern density, and pattern coverage area to neutralize both materiel and personnel targets.

SHAPED CHARGE WARHEADS

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Designed to focus the effects of the explosive’s energy around a metal liner resulting in a high-velocity jet of metal projected forward capable of generating enormous pressures and penetrating extremely thick armor or other materials at defined standoff distances.

EFP WARHEADS

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Explosively Formed Projectile (EFP) warheads are engineered for significant penetration effects while being insensitive to variability in standoff, circumventing traditional enemy anti-armor countermeasures.

THERMOBARIC WARHEADS

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Effective against personnel and structures, when it is delivered within the target structure.

REACTIVE MATERIAL WARHEADS

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Optimal for thin skinned materiel targets containing sensitive electronics or flammable materials.

THERMITE TORCH PAYLOADS

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Bond to materiel targets, rapidly pierce up to several inches of steel and initiate combustion events.

Safe and Arm Devices.

Kraken Kinetics’ Safe and Arm Devices are purpose-built for the intended delivery platform and incorporate multiple safety mechanisms to provide a controlled arming sequence, and to prevent unintentional detonation.

Our safe and arm device architecture supports various options, from low-voltage, cost-effective solutions focused on foreign markets, to high-voltage, high-performance MIL-STD compliant configurations, ensuring adaptability to diverse operational needs.

ARMING DELAY

A dual-redundant delay circuit ensures arming only occurs after safe separation, preventing premature detonation.

ENVIRONMENTAL/MANUAL SAFETY FEATURES

Environmental sensors or manual safety mechanisms ensure the system arms only after safe separation, preventing accidental activation.

TRIPLE INDEPENDENT ARMING SWITCHES

Three independent energy interrupters provide redundant safety, preventing premature arming.

ARMING SEQUENCE

A specific combination of user actions and/or environmental conditions is required to arm the device.

TRIGGERING CRITERIA

The system accepts various external trigger signals once armed, allowing flexible activation options.

DEVICE STATUS

Device status is communicated both electronically to the host platform and visually to users, indicating safe or unsafe conditions.

Areas of Excellence.

The Kraken Kinetics' team has extensive real-world experience with the following specific categories of munitions:
TUNGSTEN FRAGMENTATION WARHEADS
SHAPED CHARGE WARHEADS
EFP WARHEADS
THERMOBARIC WARHEADS
REACTIVE MATERIAL WARHEADS
THERMITE TORCH PAYLOADS
Tailored for the delivery system and mission, to balance the optimal fragment size, fragment velocity, pattern density, and pattern coverage area to neutralize both materiel and personnel targets.
Designed to focus the effects of the explosive’s energy around a metal liner resulting in a high-velocity jet of metal projected forward capable of generating enormous pressures and penetrating extremely thick armor or other materials at defined standoff distances.
Explosively Formed Projectile (EFP) warheads are engineered for significant penetration effects while being insensitive to variability in standoff, circumventing traditional enemy anti-armor countermeasures.
Effective against personnel and structures, when it is delivered within the target structure.
Optimal for thin skinned materiel targets containing sensitive electronics or flammable materials.
Bond to materiel targets, rapidly pierce up to several inches of steel and initiate combustion events.

Safe and Arm Devices.

Kraken Kinetics’ Safe and Arm Devices are purpose-built for the intended delivery platform and incorporate multiple safety mechanisms to provide a controlled arming sequence, and to prevent unintentional detonation.

Our safe and arm device architecture supports various options, from low-voltage, cost-effective solutions focused on foreign markets, to high-voltage, high-performance MIL-STD compliant configurations, ensuring adaptability to diverse operational needs.

ARMING DELAY

A dual-redundant delay circuit ensures arming only occurs after safe separation, preventing premature detonation.

ENVIRONMENTAL/MANUAL SAFETY FEATURES

Environmental sensors or manual safety mechanisms ensure the system arms only after safe separation, preventing accidental activation.

TRIPLE INDEPENDENT ARMING SWITCHES

Three independent energy interrupters provide redundant safety, preventing premature arming.

ARMING SEQUENCE

A specific combination of user actions and/or environmental conditions is required to arm the device.

TRIGGERING CRITERIA

The system accepts various external trigger signals once armed, allowing flexible activation options.

DEVICE STATUS

Device status is communicated both electronically to the host platform and visually to users, indicating safe or unsafe conditions.

Proven and Efficient.

Our company framework is optimized to rapidly design, develop, and manufacture mission and platform-specific kinetic solutions leveraging our commercial agility coupled with our proprietary design tools and broad, empirically-based knowledge.
Our methodology enables rapid progression from concept to deployment, swiftly addressing our clients' unique needs with solutions that tackle some of the most urgent national security challenges.

The Kraken team begins each endeavor with a bottom-up, effects-based, systematic design approach. Regardless of project scope, an up-front rigorous requirements analysis and design experimentation cycle quickly simplifies design trade space analysis.
This is presented to the customer in a clear, unbiased manner, articulating technical courses of action in terms of system performance, mission effectiveness, and potential operational risk.

Next, design assumptions and trade space alternatives are rigorously reduced through a series of model, build, and test design of experiment cycles, empirically analyzing performance tailored to the specific operational scenario and associated derived technical requirements. Traceability is maintained from requirements analysis through design verification testing using a streamlined systems engineering toolset.

Leadership Team.

Our team of experts originally formed the core of a government program that led the DoD into the era of kinetic drones. With over twenty-five years of combined experience in the design, testing, manufacturing, and operational deployment of kinetic systems, our leadership team is widely recognized as national level subject matter experts.
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BRIAN DAVIS

Founder & President
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JERRY HOWLE

Product Director
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Ryan hayes

Director of Engineering
Equipping our nation and allies to compete on the modern battlefield is the sole reason our organization exists.
When partnering with Kraken Kinetics, be prepared for a team that will tenaciously push your organization to achieve the maximum terminal performance possible from your systems. The Kraken team is intrinsically driven to deliver results and seeks commercial and government partners who are equally motivated to join our mission.
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