BeastTX — ground control station

The tactical ground control station.

Sunlight-readable, IP55-sealed, 9 h on one battery charge — a full mission computer and the radios of your program in one CNC-machined aluminium housing, assembled and tested in Bremerhaven.

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NDAA-compliant. Made in Germany. Built for contested environments.

BeastTX ground control station seen from the front: mission map with a video picture-in-picture on the display, two gimbal sticks, button clusters and two antennas

Mission map and video on one 1275 cd/m² display — series hardware, no render

Display 1275cd/m²

Sealed & ruggedized IP55

Display heater −20°C

BeastTX tactical ground control station, silver aluminium housing with dual sticks and antennas

Battery runtime 9h

Module slots on the backplane bus 4slots

Storage 500GB

Made in Germany

Built for the field

Readable at noon. Alive at −20 °C.

Ruggedized means numbers here, not adjectives: brightness that holds in direct sun, sealing against driven rain and dust, a heated display for winter starts — and a full shift of runtime on one charge.

1275 cd/m² — sunlight-readable display, decision-grade video at noon.
IP55 — sealed and ruggedized against driven rain and dust.
−20 °C — display heater rating for winter starts.
9 h — battery runtime on one charge, a full shift dismounted.

Housing

CNC aluminium. Assembled in Bremerhaven.

The housing is machined from aviation aluminium and finished in Cerakote and anodized colorways — the same coating in every colorway. Assembly, configuration and final test happen in Bremerhaven, and every batch leaves with its own quality record under ISO 9001.

Assembly and test in Bremerhaven — engineering answers from the people who build the station.
Cerakote colorways — silver, bronze and olive; anodized aluminium underneath.
Per-batch record — test steps, measured values, serial-number traceability behind every unit.

BeastTX colorways: silver, bronze and olive Cerakote and anodized finishes, stacked — The colorways — real hardware, no renders.

Compute

A mission computer, not a remote control.

BeastTX runs the full BeastOS operating layer — mission control, mapping and RF planning — on its own computer, fully offline. It boots the operating system your program runs, not a locked appliance shell.

Operating systems

Windows 10/11, Linux + Android

The station boots your program’s software of record. The x86 build you already qualify installs on the station — no port, no second toolchain, no vendor shell in front of it.

Storage

500 GB SSD

Offline maps, mission data and recordings stay on the station — no cloud, no license server, nothing that has to reach the internet to let an operator fly.

Processor

Intel Atom x6425E

Embedded-grade x86 inside the sealed housing: mission UI, offline mapping and hardware-decoded video run on the station itself, not on a laptop tethered to it.

Firmware

Signed firmware

One signed firmware chain from station to link — one vendor signs it, one vendor answers for it, and AES-256 runs on FIPS 140-3 level 1 compliant modules.

Integration

Four slots. Four buses. Any radio of record.

BeastTX is radio-agnostic by design. Four internal module slots take swappable radio modules on an open module standard — our own BeastLink modules and third-party radios alike. When your program’s radio of record changes, the station stays.

4 module slots per station — the four internal positions on the backplane bus.
UART, USB, Ethernet and CAN at the module interface — the same four buses in every module slot.
Optional external positions — one external modem mount and two external battery mounts, so the station carries seven positions in all, four of them module slots.
Sealed external I/O behind captive covers, part of the IP55 rating rather than a spec-sheet footnote.
Third-party links up to 200 km — integration kits available.

Third-party radio seated on the module carrier inside a BeastTX module slot — A third-party radio seated on the module carrier.

BeastTX bottom edge: external I/O ports sealed behind captive rubber covers — The connector edge — external I/O sealed behind captive covers.

Interface map — every one of the four module slots presents the same four buses to the module: our own BeastLink modules and third-party radios on one standard. The optional external modem and the two optional external battery positions sit outside that bus and carry no radio module.

Radio compatibility

What already seats in the slot.

Not a wish list: our own plugin modules, and the third-party radios we have built integration kits for. Every row uses the same four module slots and the same four buses.

Module	Origin	On the link	Integration status
BeastLink HD	BeastUAS	Video and data on one link — 100 km tested range, 2–10 ms control latency alongside	Plugin module
BeastMLRS	BeastUAS	Long-range RC and telemetry	Plugin module
BeastSDR	BeastUAS	Video, data and control on one unit, proprietary OFDM waveform	Plugin module
Doodle Labs	Third party	Program’s radio of record	Integration kit
Microhard	Third party	Program’s radio of record	Integration kit
DTC	Third party	Established MANET radio	Integration kit
Silvus Technologies	Third party	Established MANET radio	Integration kit
Taisync	Third party	Established MANET radio	Integration kit
Your radio of record	Third party	Third-party datalink options up to 200 km	Same module slots, same four buses

Every row seats in the same four module slots over UART, USB, Ethernet and CAN. The radios themselves — BeastLink HD, BeastMLRS, BeastSDR and the open module standard — have their own page.

Operator working the BeastTX at a camouflaged field position in the rain, transport cases stacked beside it

Operations

Deployed in real operations.

BeastTX stations are deployed in real operations today — proven under real combat conditions, as the catalog states it. Three ways armed forces put the station on the ground:

01 — Dismounted

Carried by the team

One operator carries station, link and control: 9 h on one battery charge, IP55-sealed, readable at 1275 cd/m² in direct sun.

02 — Vehicle-mounted

Riding in the vehicle

The same station mounts in a vehicle: CNC aluminium housing, sealed I/O behind captive covers, display heater rated to −20 °C.

03 — Fixed-site

Fixed-site ground control

Tripod- or console-mounted for site and perimeter control: the four module slots take the program’s radio of record, and BeastOS runs fully offline.

Specifications

The numbers, in one place.

Display & environment

Display brightness: 1275 cd/m², sunlight-readable
Ingress protection: IP55 — sealed I/O behind captive covers
Display heater: Rated to −20 °C
Battery runtime: 9 h on one charge
Housing: CNC-machined aviation aluminium
Finish: Cerakote and anodized colorways

Compute & interfaces

Operating systems: Windows 10/11, Linux and Android
Storage: 500 GB SSD
Processor: Intel Atom x6425E, embedded x86
Firmware: Signed firmware chain, station to link
Module slots: 4 internal slots on the backplane bus
External positions: 1 optional external modem, 2 optional external batteries — seven positions in all
Module interface: UART, USB, Ethernet, CAN — in every module slot
Link security: AES-256 on FIPS 140-3 level 1 compliant modules
Third-party links: Options up to 200 km on the same standard

Qualification & supply chain

Compliance marks: CE · FCC · NDAA-compliant
Quality system: ISO 9001, per-batch record with serial-number traceability
Export status: ITAR-free
Bill of materials: China-free
Environmental qualification: IP55 sealing and a display heater rated to −20 °C
Manufacture: Assembled and tested in Bremerhaven, Germany

Link range and latency are properties of the radio, not the station — the 100 km tested range and 2–10 ms control latency are BeastLink figures.

Next step

Configure your BeastTX.

Choose colorway, radios and options in the configurator — or talk to engineering about your program’s radio of record.

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