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Hylio PHOTON HYL-10

More than a decade of hard agricultural flying, turned toward the battlefield.

What it does

Hylio's aircraft grew up spraying crops in 100°F heat, flying back-to-back sorties for twelve hours a day, coated in dust and corrosive chemicals, with very little maintenance. That history is why the company can build at volume and at a price point that matters to a Department pushing cost per effect down. The PHOTON is a Group 1 multirotor with a universal rear mount that takes almost any third-party sensor: thermal, lidar, CBRN detection, signal jamming, signal repeating, edge computation. It is also natively swarm capable, and Hylio holds the first FAA approval for swarming Group III aircraft in commercial agriculture.

Hylio, inc.
Founded
2015
Company Size
51 to 200
Location
Richmond, TX
Track record
  1. More than 1,000 aircraft sold with more than 20,000 fleetwide flight hours
  2. The ARES HYL-150 is on the DCMA Blue UAS Cleared list as of February 2026, with other models expected by year end
  3. Invited to three JRTC rotations at Fort Polk in April, May, and June 2026, plus the MARS event with 36EN BGE
Point of contact
Name
Arthur
Title
CEO

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