Engineered Moisture, Contaminant & Particulate Control for Mission-Critical Sensor Systems
Missile seekers, optical sensors, and onboard electronics depend on tightly controlled internal environments to maintain performance throughout storage, deployment, and operation. Moisture, volatile contaminants, particulate matter, and material outgassing can degrade sensitive optical surfaces, electronics, detectors, and other critical components.
Drytech engineers environmental protection solutions specifically for these demanding applications.
Our technologies range from sophisticated valved desiccant breather assemblies to compact formed-desiccant and getter solutions designed to integrate directly into complex, space-constrained seeker architectures.
More Than Moisture Control
Drytech solutions can be engineered around the specific environmental threats present within an assembly, including:
• Moisture adsorption for maintaining extremely low internal humidity and dew-point conditions
• Targeted contaminant gettering for hydrocarbons, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), and other application-specific contaminants
• Particulate filtration down to 0.5 µm for protection of sensitive optical and electronic components
• Pressure equalization and controlled breathing through engineered valving and filtration
• Custom sorbent formulations and combinations selected for the specific application and operating environment
These capabilities can be incorporated individually or combined into an integrated environmental-control solution engineered around the requirements of the seeker or sensor system.
Designed Around the Seeker
Missile and sensor architectures rarely provide the luxury of excess space. Drytech specializes in developing solutions for challenging mechanical envelopes where conventional desiccant packaging or filtration technologies may not be practical.
Using 3D modeling, rapid prototyping, formed sorbent technologies, and application-specific engineering, Drytech can develop environmental protection systems that conform to available internal geometry while addressing moisture capacity, airflow, pressure drop, filtration, contamination control, and service-life requirements.
Solutions can range from extremely compact passive sorbent components to complete filtered and valved breather assemblies.
Seeker, Optical Sensor & Datalink Applications
Drytech technologies can support environmental protection requirements across a range of missile and precision-munition subsystems, including:
Electro-Optical / Infrared (EO/IR) Seekers
Protection against moisture, particulate contamination, hydrocarbons, and volatile compounds that can adversely affect optical surfaces and sensitive detector components.
RF and Radar Seekers
Moisture and contamination control for sensitive electronics, RF components, and enclosed seeker assemblies.
Onboard Datalink & Electronic Systems
Environmental protection solutions engineered to maintain controlled conditions around communications, guidance, processing, and other mission-critical electronics.
Sealed & Environmentally Controlled Assemblies
Custom solutions for assemblies requiring long-term moisture protection during manufacturing, storage, transportation, deployment, and operational service.
Rapid Development. Qualification. Production.
Today’s missile programs require more than performance; they require speed, manufacturability, scalability, and affordability. Drytech supports programs from initial environmental-control concept through prototype development, qualification, and production.
Our engineering approach allows us to rapidly evaluate available packaging volume, environmental requirements, contaminant threats, airflow and pressure-drop constraints, and required service life. Prototype solutions can then be modeled and manufactured for evaluation within compressed development schedules.
Once validated, the design can be transitioned into a repeatable production configuration capable of supporting increasing seeker and munition production rates.
Protecting the Environment Inside the Seeker
As government and defense primes expand production of existing munitions and develop the next generation of affordable, scalable seeker architectures, environmental protection remains critical to long-term system reliability.
Drytech provides the engineering, sorbent technology, filtration capability, and manufacturing experience to create environmental protection solutions around the specifically around the seeker, rather than adapting the seeker to an off-the-shelf product.
From a simple formed desiccant to a fully integrated moisture, contaminant, particulate, and pressure-control system, Drytech can develop a solution around the requirements of the application.
Talk to Drytech About Your Seeker Application
Engage Drytech early in the design process to evaluate moisture load, contamination threats, available envelope, filtration requirements, pressure-drop limitations, and environmental service-life objectives. We can help determine the right environmental protection architecture before those requirements become design constraints.
Have questions about your application? Our team is happy to help. Speak with a Drytech representative today to discuss your project and determine the right environmental protection solution. Please feel free to fill out the form below or call our sales department at 609-758-1794.