In March, drones took three AWS data centers offline in the Middle East…

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Impact Drones (Jasper Lortije) pitches 'Air Defense as a Service' to protect critical civilian infrastructure after March attacks that knocked three AWS data centers offline in the Middle East—disrupting a dozen core cloud services and costing Amazon $200 million in one day. The YC S26 startup sells containerized, autonomous interceptor cells that detect, launch, and physically remove drones rather than jamming them, positioned beside assets for rapid response.

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Impact Drones (Jasper Lortije), a Y Combinator S26 company (@impactdrones), offers 'Air Defense as a Service' using containerized cells of autonomous interceptors parked next to critical civilian infrastructure that detect, launch, and physically remove drones (explicitly not jamming).

The company contrasts military costs (a Patriot missile > $1M to kill a ~$30k drone) and argues its solution scales economically for civilian sites.

In a world where billion-dollar data centers are military targets

Companies need drone defense too

Jasper Lortije (@JasperLort)

AIR DEFENSE AS A SERVICE.

In March, drones took three AWS data centers offline in the Middle East and a dozen core cloud services with them. Amazon lost 200 million USD in one day.

We build the box that stops it.

Containerized cells of autonomous interceptors, parked next to anything you need to keep running. It detects the drone, launches, and physically removes it. Not jamming.

A Patriot missile costs over 1m USD to kill a 30k USD drone. That math never scaled to civilian sites. Ours does.

Introducing @impactdrones, @ycombinator S26. Air defense as a service for critical civilian infrastructure.

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— https://nitter.net/JasperLort/status/2084702238493041101#m

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