Public-safety & inspection drones
Patrol, search and rescue, border and coastline monitoring, and docks that launch drones on schedule.Patrol, rescue, border watch and drone docks on schedule.
02Hardware HARDLINE
on a direct line.
China makes almost a third of everything manufactured on Earth, including the equipment governments, hospitals and industries find hardest to reach. HARDLINE finds it, qualifies it, clears it and delivers it. Legally, every time.
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- ≈ 1/3of everything manufactured on Earth is made in China
- #1goods exporter in the world, every year since 2009
- 1partner from the factory floor to your door
The future is already built.Much of it in China.
What others are still tendering for is already running at scale in China. A glimpse of what the makers we work with ship today:
- 207 autonomous drone docks inspect the power grid of a single Chinese city.
- 1.5 t carried by unmanned cargo aircraft, for up to eight hours in the air.
- 1,200 tests an hour on fully automated hospital lab lines.
- 12K 3D and 360° cinema cameras, built from eight sensors.
Where we play High budget.
High budget.
Hard to reach.Our zone.
Anyone can order phone cases online. Nobody can add a hospital lab line, a fleet of inspection drones or a custom AR headset to a cart. That takes vetted makers, paperwork, financing and people on the ground. That's the part we do.
- Vetted makers
- Licences & paperwork
- Financing
- People on the ground
通Our zone: HARDLINE Budget per order → Low High How hard to get → Easy Hard Phone casesT-shirtsGadgetsFurnitureElectronic parts marketplaces do this fine Airspace securityHospital lab linesInspection drone fleetsCustom AR headsetsCargo dronesIndustrial robots
通Our zone: HARDLINE Budget per order → Low High How hard to get → Hard Easy marketplaces do this fine Electronic partsFurnitureGadgetsT-shirtsPhone cases Airspace securityHospital lab linesInspection drone fleetsCustom AR headsetsCargo dronesIndustrial robots
What we source
Mission-critical.Hard to find.
Six families of equipment we know how to source, adapt, certify and deliver. Need something else that's high-stakes? Ask us.Six families we source, adapt, certify and deliver. Something else high-stakes? Ask us.
Heavy-lift cargo drones
Unmanned delivery to islands, mountains and disaster zones, with tonne-class payloads.Tonne-class delivery to islands, mountains and disaster zones.
Hospital & lab diagnostics
From point-of-care analyzers to fully automated lab lines, supplied with their reagents.Point-of-care analyzers to fully automated lab lines.
Energy, mining & critical sites
Site monitoring, airborne survey and airspace security for mines, pipelines, plants and ports.Site monitoring, airborne survey and airspace security.
Wearable AI & smart vision
AR glasses, AI camera eyewear and smart safety helmets. White-label, or engineered to your spec.AR glasses, AI camera eyewear and smart safety helmets.
Robotics & automation
Collaborative robots, palletisers and welding cells for factories and warehouses.Cobots, palletisers and welding cells for factories.
Who & where
Made in China.Delivered where it matters.
Our buyers are public agencies, hospitals and operators, mostly across Africa, the Middle East and Europe.
Factory floor · China EuropeNorth AfricaMiddle EastWest AfricaCentral AfricaEast AfricaSouthern Africa Factory floorWhere our buyers are Who we work with
- Ministries & public agencies
- Police, civil protection & borders
- Hospitals & public health
- Mining, energy & utilities
- Industry & integrators
- Factory floor · China
- Europe
- North Africa
- Middle East
- West Africa
- Central Africa
- East Africa
- Southern Africa
How it works
From the factory floor to your door.
- 01
Brief
You tell us the mission: what, where, how many, and for whom.
- 02
Qualify
We shortlist specialised makers and question them in writing: warranty, training, spares, compliance.
- 03
Tailor
Right-sized fleets, custom specs, white-label or engineered variants.
- 04
Clear
End-user certificates, export authorisations, certifications and local registration.
- 05
Finance & ship
Payment terms and trade finance, then from the factory gate to your door.
- 06
Install & train
Setup on site, certified training, spare parts and support that stays.
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The same factories make our brands.
HARDLINE's network also produces everything AFTRLINE sells: heavyweight apparel, fight gear, bags, bottles, fragrance and fully custom pieces for each talent.
See AFTRLINE- Made
- Apparel
- Fight gear
- Fragrance
Legal. Licensed. Documented.
Export authorisations and end-user certificates travel with every shipment. We check sanctions, licences and end use before anything moves, and ship export-approved versions only. Your data stays in your country.
Start with a pilot. Then scale.
Prove it on a few sites with success measures agreed up front, then roll out nationally with training and local support built in.
Tell us what you need to source Every request is handled confidentially.