Iron Hornet builds autonomous perimeter defense systems — engineered, designed and assembled in America. We combine Hollywood-grade computer vision with defense-grade engineering — and we hire the people who've held a line somewhere before.
Academy Award engineers, Navy Top Scientists, and Special Operations veterans building the hardware that protects American ground.
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Iron Hornet LLC was founded in 2024 by Laurence Hess to translate two decades of visual-effects research into perimeter defense that actually ships.
We design, manufacture, and field-service autonomous sensor platforms — the Iron Eyes fixed post, the Iron Wings UAV, and the Iron Hornet OS that runs them. Our headquarters and production floor are both in San Diego, within driving distance of every branch of the U.S. armed forces.
We count former Academy Award engineers, Navy Top Scientists, and USSOCOM veterans on the roster. We ship hardware that has to work when failure isn't an option — because some of us remember what that felt like.