Qai Drones
Advanced aerial technology — civil and security.
Qai Drones is the group’s advanced-technology venture: unmanned aerial systems spanning civilian and security applications, built by a founding team of nine.
It is being built in three layers — beginning with the drone-parts supply chain inside the UAE, expanding into the manufacture of civil aircraft, and reaching toward security and defense systems.
Its flagship engineering effort is Shaheen 1 — an autonomous interceptor that brings AI to the air.
- 01Supply chain
UAE drone-parts supply
Establishing a reliable supply chain for drone components inside the Emirates — the foundation everything else is built on.
- 02Manufacturing
Civil aircraft
Designing and manufacturing civilian unmanned aircraft.
- 03Defense
Security & defense systems
Developing security and defensive aerial systems — including the Shaheen 1 interceptor.
Shaheen 1
شاهين 1An advanced quadcopter interceptor designed to detect, track, and engage targets autonomously. Shaheen 1 pairs a forward thermal camera with an onboard AI compute module and an autonomous targeting system — bringing real-time intelligence to the aircraft itself.
- Class
- Autonomous interceptor quadcopter
- Sensing
- Forward-mounted thermal camera
- Compute
- Onboard AI module (NVIDIA Jetson)
- Autonomy
- Self-directed targeting system