BRING THE RAIN — Precision Aerial Fire Suppression

Unclassified // Capability Brief — PCADS Program

Payload // Precision WaterPlatform // C-130 · C-17Status // Capability Online

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CH.01The Threat

Firedoesnotwaitfordaylight.

The most destructive fires move at night, ride extreme winds, and climb terrain no rotor can safely reach. Conditions worsen every season. The window to act keeps closing.

When others stand downthe fire grows.

01 / Surface Winds

70+MPH GUSTS

02 / Terrain Slope

45°DEGREE GRADE

03 / Operating Window

NIGHTZERO VISIBILITY

04 / Fire Growth

EXPACRES / MINUTE

CH.02The Aircraft

Builtforaircraftalreadyinservice.

No new airframes. No years-long procurement. PCADS deploys from the proven military cargo fleet flying today — scaling national response with the aircraft nations already own.

Service Ceiling

33,000

Payload Class

TONS+

Runway

Austere

ROUGH-FIELD

Reconfigure

Rapid

ROLL-ON / ROLL-OFF

Compatible Platforms //C-130 HerculesC-17 Globemaster III

CH.03Bring The Rain

The Deployment

Precision
changes everything.

A single pass lays down a torrential, accurately placed water payload — coverage where it matters, at altitudes and intensities a rotor cannot match.

CH.//Field Imagery

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The Front

Wind-driven · after dark

The Platform

Proven cargo fleet

Ingress

High-altitude approach

The Drop

Torrential · precise

Atmosphere

Into the smoke column

Egress

Mission complete

CH.04Validated

Coveragewithoutcompromise.

Independently measured against the U.S. Forest Service Cup & Grid Method — recording some of the highest, most uniform coverage levels ever documented from an aerial platform.

Peak Coverage Level

GPC · Gallons / 100 ft²

Coverage Uniformity

Across drop corridor

Single-Pass Footprint

Per deployment

0.0 ac

Fig. 04 — Water Saturation GridLive Plot

+200+1000-100-200

APPROACHRELEASECORRIDORTAPEROUT

Dry

Saturated

CH.05Mission Planning

Commandtheresponsebeforethefirstpass.

A live planning surface — terrain, fire spread, wind, and computed drop corridors. Click anywhere on the map to retarget the deployment and recalculate coverage.

SECTOR 7-G · LIVE34.05°N 118.24°WSCALE 1:50,000FIRE ACTIVE

Layer Control

StatusINBOUND

Coverage0%

Wind038° / 24kt

Grid Ref62·44

CH.06Mission Ready

Thecrewbehindthecapability.

Decades of military aviation, wildfire operations, and aerospace engineering — assembled for a single mission.

Managing Director

Matt Schuler

Strategic leadership and mission coordination

Director of Government Affairs & Chief Flight Instructor

BG Harold "Cec" Reed USAF ret.

Senior military aviation leadership

Director of Production & Inventor

Ty Bonnar

Production planning and operational delivery

Director of Special Projects & Training

MSgt Marc Martindale USAF ret.

Military aviation operations

Director of Operations

SMSgt Troy Firzlaff MBA, USAF ret.

USAF mission and logistics expertise

CH.07Contact

The future of aerial
wildfire suppression.

For agency briefings, partnership, and deployment readiness inquiries — open a channel. Responses are direct and mission-oriented.

Direct Channel

pcads@bringtherain.com

Program Office

PCADS — Aerial Suppression

Readiness

Available for rapid deployment

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