Defence Infrastructure on Demand
ELIRE Defence delivers modular maritime infrastructure that provides responsive logistics, sustainment, and operational support wherever fixed ports, quays, or shore facilities are unavailable, degraded, or absent. By treating infrastructure itself as a deployable capability, ELIRE enables logistics, command, and mission systems to maneuver dynamically with deployed forces.
Turning physical maritime infrastructure into a rapidly deployable, modular capability for contested and infrastructure-denied environments.
Breaking the dependency on static shore infrastructure.
Modern defense operations rely heavily on physical infrastructure to support logistics, command and control, communications, autonomous systems, and sustainment. While advances in digital logistics and autonomous platforms have improved coordination, they remain fundamentally dependent on physical touchpoints.
When fixed ports are contested, degraded, or non-existent, forces face severe operational constraints. ELIRE solves this critical vulnerability by creating resilient, physical logistics systems where none exist, ensuring freedom of maneuver and operational endurance.
Scalable, modular, and rapidly reconfigurable floating ecosystems.
The core of the ELIRE solution lies in its interconnectable, hexagonal floating platforms. Engineered using established naval architecture and conventional shipbuilding principles, the system transforms maritime infrastructure from a fixed geographic risk into a highly mobile, deployable capability.
Hexagonal Geometry
Allows for unlimited, multi-directional scalability using identical modular interfaces, enabling the infrastructure to expand or contract according to operational needs.
Rapid Deployment
Modules are transported using existing maritime assets and assembled quickly without dredging, major civil engineering works, or permanent construction.
Heavy-Duty Construction
Built from marine-grade steel and aluminum with internal bulkheads, compartmentalized watertight buoyancy cells, and integrated utility distribution below deck.
Mechanical Pin Connections
High-strength structural connectors allow individual units to be quickly joined, detached, or replaced to change configurations on the fly.
One Platform, Infinite Mission Profiles
An 80/20 engineering approach for unmatched operational flexibility.
By keeping 80% of the platform standardized and 20% configurable via interchangeable mission payloads, ELIRE dramatically reduces engineering complexity while supporting a wide array of defense, security, and civil resilience operations.
Expeditionary Logistics
Rapidly assembled ship-to-shore transfer nodes and cargo throughput systems.
Distributed Maritime Support
Forward operating bases for vessel replenishment, maintenance, and repair.
Aviation & UAS Support
Mobile flight decks, launch pads, and maintenance facilities for crewed and uncrewed aircraft.
Command & Control
Secure, floating command centers integrated with communication suites.
Medical & Humanitarian
Deployable casualty management facilities and disaster-response platforms.
Grid-Independent Energy Integration
ELIRE integrates containerized, grid-independent clean energy systems directly into its modular architecture. Developed and de-risked through a major UK Government-funded program, this capability delivers clean power generation, storage, and distribution.
This self-sustaining energy ecosystem eliminates the reliance on permanent grid upgrades or vulnerable shore-side utilities, providing up to 5 MW of continuous electrical output and reliable technical accommodation in infrastructure-denied locations.
De-Risked, Proven, and Ready to Deploy
ELIRE is built on a mature, thoroughly tested engineering foundation. The underlying architecture has been de-risked through detailed CAD development, Finite Element Analysis (FEA), and extensive physical wave-tank testing at the University of Strathclyde's Kelvin Hydrodynamics Laboratory.
