{"id":102597,"title":"9 Mothers - AI mission systems","tagline":"EDDA - is a tiny robot that protects soldiers and critical assets from Group 1 suicide drones","body":"We make AI mission systems for the DoW.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post\u0026id=102597\u0026key=user_uploads/1373/31af3058-9bd9-48b5-8b9a-4840055d12f9)\n\nOur first product - EDDA - is a tiny robot that protects soldiers and critical assets from Group 1 suicide drones. We are building it small enough and cheap enough to put that protection on everything: every vehicle, every position, every asset. EDDA defeats fast group 1 threats that fielded systems consistently miss. Operators evaluating it have told us it's the only system that's stopped fast Group 1 - we'll let them speak for themselves when they can.\n\n\u003chttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBGBUmwgpL0\u003e\n\nWhy this? We were watching people die in the Russia-Ukraine conflict, and ended up researching the state of the union on defeating suicide drones. It was insanely bad - over-focus on RF, EW, and larger systems - all with obvious flaws. Nothing was working, all demos were of slow speed or static drones. RF \u0026amp; EW are somewhere between dead-ends and table-stakes, and the larger systems had many flaws. So, we felt compelled to fix it.\n\n\u003chttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEgJkZTNcks\u003e\n\nThe U.S. and allies are up-against this threat with no viable solution, until now. We have multiple contracts, and have sold and delivered multiple systems.\n\nOur next 3 products follow the same vein - delivering working systems at low SWaPc.","slug":"Qgn-9-mothers-ai-mission-systems","created_at":"2026-06-05T18:10:21.843Z","updated_at":"2026-06-20T20:44:54.640Z","total_vote_count":9,"url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/Qgn-9-mothers-ai-mission-systems","share_image_url":"https://www.ycombinator.com/media/?type=post\u0026id=102597\u0026key=user_uploads/1373/31af3058-9bd9-48b5-8b9a-4840055d12f9","company":{"id":31193,"name":"9 Mothers","slug":"9-mothers-corporation","url":"https://9mothers.com","logo":"https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/84622897534f7613d85e63267d30b56cc2f7e6df.png","batch":"Spring 2026","industry":"Industrials","tags":[],"search_path":"https://bookface.ycombinator.com/company/31193"}}