Bortex

Bortex VanguardTactical Awareness

The pictureon thesoldier

Vanguard is a helmet-mounted tactical awareness system: a 60° binocular HUD that puts navigation, targeting, thermal and squad data on a soldier’s own field of view. It runs on X-Matrix, the Bortex fusion and AI layer — so the contact is understood where it is being fought, not in a control room two valleys back.

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Pre-productionVanguard is in active development and is not fielded today. Every figure on this page is an engineering target, and every operational view is a simulation. First systems are scheduled for 2027.

60°
Binocular HUD field of view

SpecificationVanguard

4
Sensor bands in one visor — thermal, LRF, SWIR, LWIR

SpecificationVanguard

8h+
Continuous operation, hot-swap battery

Design targetVanguard

Edge
Fusion and AI run on the soldier, off-grid

SpecificationX-Matrix

System 01 · Tactical Awareness

For the soldier who
cannot look down.

A section commander on a ridge line carries a map, a radio and a spotter scope, and every one of them costs the same thing: eyes off the ground. Vanguard collapses the three into a single binocular frame that stays on the fight — thermal, laser ranging, SWIR and LWIR rendered where the soldier is already looking.

It is the first Bortex system, and the only one with hardware behind it today.

Bortex Vanguard helmet-mounted tactical awareness system
Vanguard · Engineering hardware · Not a fielded configuration

Specification

FORM FACTOR
Helmet-mounted
FOV
60° binocular HUD
SENSORS
Thermal · LRF · SWIR · LWIR · +more
BATTERY
8h+ continuous · hot-swap
DATA LINK
X-Matrix mesh · LPI/LPD

Design specification · not demonstrated performance

R&D2027Full specification
  • Squad situational awareness
  • Target hand-off
  • Night & all-weather
  • Casualty location
  • Non Line of Sight Visibility
  • Acoustic Detection
  • Local AI Communications
  • Real-time Analytics

Vanguard is the
first system on
X-Matrix.

X-Matrix is the Bortex software and AI layer — the part that turns raw sensor returns into a track with a class, a bearing and a confidence. It is designed to run at the edge, on the soldier, with no link back to a control room, because the link is the first thing a contested border takes away.

It is also why the systems that follow Vanguard are worth more together than sold separately. Each one is another set of eyes on the same layer, feeding the same picture — and the picture is the product.

A single fused operating picture combining air, land, and sea sensor data into one view
Operating picture · Concept

  1. Sense

    Vanguard's own bands today — thermal, laser ranging, SWIR and LWIR, on the soldier. Towers, counter-drone and unmanned assets join the same line as they are built.

    • Thermal
    • LRF
    • SWIR
    • LWIR

  2. Fuse

    X-Matrix correlates returns across bands — and, as the other systems arrive, across air, land and sea — into one object with one identity, not four reports of the same thing.

    • EO / IR
    • Radar
    • RF
    • Acoustic

  3. Decide

    One operating picture, rendered in the visor. Classification and confidence arrive attached to the track, not after a radio call to someone who can see less than you can.

    • Track
    • Class
    • Confidence

  4. Act

    The response is authorised by a person. Every engagement gate is designed to require a human, and to log who held it.

    • Human gate
    • Audit log

Sense, fuse, decide, act — the four stages above, run end to end against a simulated Group 2 rotary-wing incursion, as X-Matrix is designed to run them. It holds at the authorisation step until a person acts.

Three more,
on the same layer.

Vanguard is first because it is furthest along. Perimeter, Trident and Vigil are in ideation for 2027, and are being designed onto X-Matrix from the outset — so when a tower picks up a track, it arrives in the visor as the same object the soldier is already holding, not as a second report of it.

Built in India,
for the Indian armed forces.

Bortex is a Bengaluru defence-technology company, incubated at ITI Limited under the Vinyas Startup Hub — a Government of India undertaking — recognised by DPIIT under Startup India, and a member of the Onshape Startup Program. The founder read Mechanical Engineering at IIT Bombay. The company is early, and it says so: that list is everything which can be checked today.

  • ITI Limited
  • DPIIT — Startup India
  • Onshape Startup Program
  • IIT Bombay
Shubham Dutta, Founder of Bortex
India's borders are watched by more sensors every year and understood no faster. Bortex exists to close that gap — not to add another camera to the line.

Shubham DuttaFounder, Bortex

  • Mechanical Engineering, IIT Bombay
  • Autonomous systems
  • Defense hardware
  • AI / computer vision
About the founder(opens LinkedIn in a new tab)

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Ask us the
hard questions.

A briefing is a working session, not a pitch. Bring the scenario you actually care about — a sector, a threat profile, an integration constraint — and we will walk through what Vanguard and X-Matrix do with it, what they do not do yet, and what 2027looks like.

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