Concept RenderConfig A · Launch
Booster-assisted launch
Boosters fitted, sized to the hexagonal guide rails that set the 36-cell packing.
- Launch diameter30" (762 mm)
- Launch weight1,614 lb (734 kg)
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Bee-MX · Containerized Strike System
A missile shaped to the space it ships in.
Bee-MX is a hexagonal-section missile designed from the container inward. The same six facets that let the airframe tessellate inside an ISO magazine serve as its guide rails on launch, so magazine depth stops being a function of bespoke cells and becomes a function of floor area.
Concept Film
See it deploy, end to end.
Forty seconds: shipping container, emplacement, salvo, cruise.
Bee-MX / Concept Film
Concept Render
Animated concept sequence. Not test footage, and not a depiction of qualified hardware or demonstrated performance.
01 · Airframe
Two configurations,
one airframe.
Bee-MX carries a hexagonal cross section. The six facets let units nest in a close-packed array and index on hexagonal guide rails at launch. A boosted state is sized to those rails; a ramjet state flies the mission.
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Concept RenderConfig B · Cruise
Ramjet cruise
Boosters spent. Ramjet nacelles arranged around a hexagonal airframe, with the shared central fuel tube running the length of the body.
- Body diameter12.5" (305 mm)
- Cruise velocityMach 3
Common to both configurations
AirframeHexagonal, six facets
Fuel1 × shared central tube
Launch3 boosters on hex guide rails
GuidanceAutonomous, integrated thrust vectoring
Concept renders. Full engineering specifications and test plans are available under NDA to qualified government and prime-contractor partners.
Fig. 02 · Booster-assisted launch & hex guide rails
Fig. 01 · Central fuel tube
02 · Flight Profile
Boosted off the stack.
Then air-breathing.
Bee-MX leaves the magazine on its own rails, accelerates on three boosters, and then cruises on ramjet power at Mach 3. Nothing in the sequence requires a dedicated launch pad, crew emplacement, or site preparation.
Phase 01
Rail egress
The unit leaves the container on its hexagonal guide rails. No dedicated launch pad, crew emplacement, or site preparation.
Phase 02
Boost
Three boosters carry the airframe off the guide rails and up to ramjet operating speed.
Phase 03
Ramjet cruise
Three ramjet engines sustain Mach 3 cruise, fed from the shared central fuel tube that runs the length of the body.
Phase 04
Terminal
Autonomous guidance with integrated thrust vectoring carries the unit through the end of its flight.
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Launch, three-quarter view
Boosters fire together and carry the unit off the container's guide rails.
03 · Magazine
Depth is a function
of floor area.
Thirty-six units ride in one unmodified 40-ft ISO container: three rows of 12, hexagonal close-packed with a 50% row offset. The hexagonal guide rails that launch each unit also set the packing.
Container
40-FT ISO
Unmodified standard container. 12,192 mm long, 2,438 mm wide.
Bee-MX close-packed
36 cells
Hexagonal close-packed array, 50% row offset.
Magazine arrangementHexagonal close-packed array
Plan view, schematic
Plan view, schematic
04 · Propulsion
Engines and fuel
built around the hexagon.
Three ramjet engines and three boosters, carried on guide rails around a hexagonal airframe and fed by one shared central fuel tube. A parts-minimized design keeps control complexity low and the packing envelope clean.
Figure 01 · Central fuel tube
One shared fuel tube
A single central fuel tube runs the length of the body, with three ramjet engines on guide rails around it.
- Fuel1 × central tube
- Engines3 × ramjet
Figure 02 · Booster-assisted launch & hex guide rails
From rail to ramjet
Three boosters with guide rails ride the hexagonal launch geometry out of the container. The launch configuration also carries integrated thrust vectoring.
- Boosters3 × with guide rails
- Launch diameter30" (762 mm)
- Launch weight1,614 lb (734 kg)
05 · Deployment
One container. Thirty‑six units. Under a minute.
Load, move, emplace, deploy. Every step uses equipment and routes that already exist.
01LoadLoaded with standard handling equipment.
02MoveTruck, rail or sea. No purpose-built carrier.
03EmplaceAn unmodified 40-ft ISO container. No site prep.
04DeployRack extends: 36 cells, hex close-packed.
← Swipe for all four steps
40-FT ISO
Ships, arms and launches from an unmodified standard container.
36 / <60 S
A full container mobilizes and fires in under a minute.
<$200K
Unit cost target at volume.
06 · Logistics
It ships like freight,
because it is freight.
Every leg of the journey already exists. Bee-MX travels inside an unmodified 40-ft ISO container, so the equipment that moves it is the equipment already moving everything else.
01No purpose-built carrierStandard handling equipment, standard chassis, standard lift points.
02One box, any modeRoad, rail or sea, with no change of equipment between legs.
03No site prepThe container is the launch site. It arrives, it emplaces, it fires.
SeaLeg
YardStagedIllustrative of the existing intermodal logistics network. Concept renders, not photographs of fielded equipment.
07 · Deployment and Handling
Moves like cargo. Needs no fixed launch site.
Bee-MX travels in an unmodified 40-ft ISO container, on the same truck, rail and sea network that already moves global cargo. Transport only gets it there. Once emplaced, it needs no dedicated launch pad and no site preparation.
Road
Standard truck chassis
Moved by the same truck network already carrying global cargo.
Rail
Conventional rail
No purpose-built carrier. Rides conventional rail as standard intermodal freight.
Sea
Hulls already in service
A 40-ft box moves by sea on hulls and deck fittings already in service. No new handling doctrine.
08 · Program Status
Where Bee-MX
stands today.
Bee-MX is in Phase I, preliminary studies, with patents pending in the U.S. and abroad. Cretus Innovations is developing Bee-MX independently and is actively seeking government procurement opportunities, strategic partnerships, and prime-contractor relationships. The path from here runs through ground testing, flight testing and qualification toward fielding.
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Patent filingsU.S. and foreign filings covering the hexagonal launch geometry and container-deployed concept.
Patent pending02
Phase I, preliminary studiesConfiguration, packing geometry and design studies across the 40-ft ISO envelope.
Current phase03
Subsystem build and ground testBooster and ramjet static testing, guidance hardware-in-the-loop work, and guide-rail fit checks against a container mock-up.
Next04
Container integration demonstrationA loaded 40-ft magazine demonstrates rail egress and the full-container launch timeline.
Planned05
Flight test campaignBoost-to-ramjet transition, Mach 3 cruise, altitude and range validated in flight.
Planned06
Qualification and low-rate productionQualification alongside a government or prime-contractor partner, then low-rate initial production toward the <$200K unit cost target.
Planned07
FieldingContainer magazines delivered into the existing truck, rail and sea network.
PlannedSteps 03 to 07 describe the intended development path. Timing depends on funding and partner engagement.
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