NMX‑THM‑30 / Rev 00 / payload elevation / prototype · ETO 2026 · Product Page

NMX-THM-30 · PROTOTYPE & ENGINEERED TO ORDER — TELESCOPIC & HOISTABLE MAST

Raise the payload. Hold it steady.

Name: Telescopic & Hoistable Mast
Brand: Neometrix

The machine that puts the payload up high, and holds it there. Height buys line-of-sight, range and coverage — so a hoistable mast raises a payload (a communications antenna, a sensor or camera head, a light, or other mission equipment) up to height, holds it steady, and brings it down again to move. Telescopic sections extend from a compact stowed length; a pneumatic, electromechanical or hydraulic drive raises them and a lock holds them; a levelled, guyed or outrigged base keeps a raised payload steady in wind. We build the mast, the hoist, the base and the control and actuation, and integrate it onto a vehicle, trailer or shelter; the payload itself is yours — customer-furnished or specialist. Prototype and engineered to order — no specific delivered mast is claimed.

Enquire — hoistable mast Capability sheet (PDF)

Illustrative image, not a delivered installation — a trailer-mounted telescopic mast extended to full height in an open field carrying a small plain generic payload box at the top, the trailer levelled on deployed outriggers with a control cabinet, no text, no markings and no people

Fig · 01 A trailer-mounted telescopic mast extended to height, carrying a generic payload — raise, hold steady, retract — illustrative, not a delivered installation

Elevates

a payloadantenna / sensor / light

Drive

pneumaticor electro / hydraulic

Deploys

rapidportable / vehicle / trailer

Holds

steadylevelled / locked / wind-rated

Build

to orderprototype; none claimed

ISO 9001 / 14001 Prototype & ETO Masts & mobile platforms Hydraulics / pneumatics / controls Noida · India

Overview

Get the payload up high.

So much of what a modern force does depends on height: a communications antenna reaches further, a sensor or camera sees over the terrain, a light covers more ground. But the equipment has to come down again to move, and go up fast at the next site. That is what a hoistable, telescopic mast does — it elevates a payload to working height, holds it steady, and retracts it for transport. It sounds simple; the engineering is not, because a payload on a tall mast is a lever arm in the wind, and keeping it pointing where it should is harder than lifting it.

Illustrative image, not a delivered installation — the base of a telescopic mast: nested tube sections rising from a base with a pneumatic and electromechanical drive unit, an actuation module and control box, and levelling feet and outriggers, matte grey, no text and no people

Fig · 02 The mast base and drive — nested telescopic sections, the extension drive and lock, and the levelling base — illustrative, not a delivered installation

Raise it — on air, screw or ram. A telescopic mast is a set of nested tubes that extend from a short stowed length to full height. A pneumatic drive is light and fast, ideal for rapid deployment; an electromechanical drive (ballscrew, rack or winch-and-cable) with a mechanical lock carries heavier payloads and holds height without power; a hydraulic drive handles the heaviest. The drive is chosen to the payload weight, the height and how fast it must go up.

Hold it steady — the real problem. Lifting the payload is the easy part; holding it steady at height is the engineering. A levelled base, deployed outriggers or guy lines, a stiff mast and a wind rating keep the payload from swaying or drifting, so a sensor stays pointed and an antenna stays aligned. A mechanical lock holds the height safely without relying on continuous air or power.

The mast is ours; the payload is yours. We build the mast, the drive, the base, the lock and the control and actuation, and integrate the whole thing onto a vehicle, trailer or shelter. The payload — the antenna, the sensor, the camera, the light — is customer-furnished or specialist; we provide the machine that carries it and the interface it mounts to. That split is deliberate and honest.

Anyone can push a mast up. The job is to hold a payload rock-steady at the top of it, in the wind, and to fold it away and move in minutes — that is a hydraulics, structures and controls problem, and that is what we build.

Height Is the Advantage

Elevate the payload

A communications antenna, a sensor or a camera reaches further and sees more from height. A hoistable mast raises the payload to working height and retracts it to move — the deployable way to get equipment up high.

Holding It Steady Is the Engineering

A payload is a lever arm

Lifting the payload is easy; holding it steady at height in wind is the hard part. Levelling, outriggers or guys, a stiff mast, a lock and a wind rating keep it pointed — the real design work.

The Mast Is Ours; the Payload Is Yours

We build the machine that carries it

Neometrix builds the mast, drive, base, lock, control and actuation and integrates it onto a vehicle, trailer or shelter; the payload is customer-furnished or specialist. An honest, machine-only split.

Architecture

Raise, hold, retract.

The schematic shows the job — raise the payload, hold it steady, retract to move — and the mast that does it. The detail panel covers raising, holding and the honest split of what we build.

FIG · 03THM ARCHITECTURE · RAISE / HOLD / RETRACT · TELESCOPIC MAST + DRIVE + CONTROL · PROTOTYPE / ETO

Fig · 03 Raise the payload to height, hold it steady with levelling, lock and wind stability, and retract it to move — a machine that carries a customer-furnished payload

Arc · 01

The Telescopic Mast

Nested tube sections (aluminium, composite or steel) that extend from a compact stowed length to full working height, carrying the payload on a head at the top.

Arc · 02

The Drive & Lock

A pneumatic, electromechanical or hydraulic drive raises the sections, and a mechanical lock holds the height safely without continuous air or power — chosen to the payload and the deployment.

Arc · 03

The Base & Stability

A levelled base with outriggers or guy lines, a stiff structure and a wind rating that keep the raised payload steady and pointed — the part that makes height usable.

Arc · 04

Control, Actuation & Integration

A controller and HMI with height feedback to raise, lock, hold and lower, and the integration of the mast onto a vehicle, trailer or shelter — a complete, deployable system.

Have a hoistable mast, telescopic mast or mobile mast-system requirement? Send the payload, the height and the platform — a clause-by-clause compliance matrix within two working days · [email protected]

Send tender spec

Specifications

Reference mast, built to the payload.

The parameters below describe a reference mast. The height, the payload capacity, the drive, the base and stability and the mobility all follow from the payload it must carry, the height it must reach, the wind it must hold in, and how it deploys.

Illustrative image, not a delivered installation — a mast control and actuation unit: a control console with a blank screen and raise and lower controls, an actuation and valve block and cabling at the mast base, matte grey, no text and no people

Fig · 04 The mast control and actuation — the controller, HMI and actuation that raise, lock, hold and lower the mast — illustrative, not a delivered installation

Where a mast requirement goes wrong

In the payload-at-height, not the lift. An under-rated drive cannot raise the real payload; a mast too flexible or poorly stabilised lets the payload sway so a sensor loses its aim; a mast with no wind rating is unusable on a bad day; and one that is slow to deploy or stow defeats the point of a mobile system. The number that matters is not height alone but payload × height × wind, held steady.

That is why the mast is sized to the payload at height in wind, the base is levelled and stabilised, the mast is locked and stiff, and the whole system deploys and stows fast. The measure of a mast is that the payload does its job at height — steady, aligned and quickly in and out of action.

Full specification — expand

System	Telescopic & hoistable mast — engineered & integrated: telescopic mast sections, extension drive & lock, base & stabilisation, control & actuation, and platform integration
Configuration	Portable / tripod, vehicle-mounted, trailer-mounted (mobile mast system), or fixed — configured to the deployment
Mast	Nested telescopic sections (aluminium / composite / steel); compact stowed length to full working height; payload head / interface at the top
Drive	Pneumatic (compressed air), electromechanical (ballscrew / rack / winch-and-cable) or hydraulic — with a mechanical lock at height; sized to the payload
Base & Stability	Levelled base, outriggers / guy lines; stiffness & wind rating to hold the raised payload steady & pointed
Control & Actuation	Controller / HMI, raise / lock / hold / lower, height feedback; control block / actuation unit
Payload	A communications antenna, a sensor or camera head, a light, or other mission equipment — customer-furnished or specialist; the mast carries and elevates it
Mobility	Rapid deployment & stow; self-contained on a vehicle or trailer, or portable
Sourcing	The payload is customer-furnished / specialist (and any proprietary tube-sets or slew bearings are bought-in); Neometrix engineers & integrates the mast, drive, base, lock, control & actuation, and the platform integration
Status	Prototype & engineered to order · configured to the payload, height, wind & platform · quoted across hoistable / telescopic / mobile mast requirements · no specific delivered mast is claimed on this page

PDF · 1 page

Telescopic & Hoistable Mast — Capability Sheet

Tender Response

Send your payload, height & platform — compliance matrix in two working days

Variants

One machine, the drive you need.

Tenders call it a hoistable mast, a telescopic mast, a pneumatic mast, a mobile mast system or a mast control system. The principle — raise the payload, hold it steady, retract to move — is common; the mast is configured to the payload, the height and the platform.

Var · 01

Pneumatic Rapid-Deployment Mast

A compressed-air telescopic mast: light, fast up and down, ideal for rapid deployment of a lighter payload.

Var · 02

Motorised Locking Mast

An electromechanical (ballscrew / rack / winch) mast with a mechanical lock that holds height without power — for heavier payloads and long dwell.

Var · 03

Vehicle / Trailer Mast System

A self-contained mobile mast system on a vehicle or trailer, with levelling, power and control — deploy, raise, work, stow and move.

Var · 04

Mast Control & Actuation System

The controller, HMI and actuation (control block, height feedback, interlocks) that drives an existing or new mast — the control half on its own.

Applications

Where it elevates.

Wherever a payload has to go up high, hold steady, and come down to move.

A · 01Mobile & rapid-deployment mast — field

A · 02Vehicle & trailer-mounted mast system

A · 03Communications & antenna elevation

A · 04Observation & sensor elevation — generic payload

A · 05Area & perimeter lighting mast

A · 06Fixed-site & perimeter mast

FAQ

Common questions.

Plain-language answers from the engineering team.

Q · 01 What is a hoistable / telescopic mast, and why elevate a payload?

A hoistable or telescopic mast is a machine that raises a payload to height and holds it there, then retracts it for transport. You elevate a payload because height is an advantage: a communications antenna raised high reaches much further and clears obstructions; a sensor or camera on a mast sees over terrain, buildings and vegetation instead of being blocked by them; a light on a mast covers far more ground. The mast is telescopic so that it collapses to a compact length for travel and extends to full working height at the site — and does both quickly, because a mobile capability is only useful if it goes up and comes down fast. So the mast is the deployable way to get mission equipment up high and back down again: raise it, work, stow it, move. The payload it carries depends entirely on the mission — the mast is the common machine underneath all of them.

Q · 02 How does it raise the payload and hold it steady?

Two different jobs, and the second is the hard one. To raise the payload, the nested telescopic sections are driven up — by compressed air (pneumatic), by a ballscrew, rack or winch-and-cable (electromechanical), or by a hydraulic ram — and a mechanical lock holds the height. To hold it steady is where the engineering really is: a payload at the top of a tall mast is a long lever arm, and wind, vibration and the mast's own flexibility all try to move it. If the payload sways or drifts, a sensor loses its aim and an antenna loses its alignment, so the elevation is wasted. Steadiness comes from a levelled base, deployed outriggers or guy lines, a stiff mast and a defined wind rating — the mast is designed to hold the payload pointing where it should, to a stated wind speed. Lifting is easy; holding a payload rock-steady at height, in wind, is the whole design problem.

Q · 03 What payloads does it carry?

Whatever the mission needs raised — and on this page we describe it generically, because the mast is the common machine and the payload is customer-furnished. Typical payloads are a communications antenna (to extend range and line-of-sight), a sensor or camera head (to observe over terrain), a light (to illuminate an area), or other mission equipment. What matters to the mast design is the payload's weight, its size and wind area, its height requirement and how steady it must be held — those numbers size the drive, the mast stiffness and the stabilisation. We build the mast and its interface to carry the payload; the payload itself, and its performance, are the customer's and the specialist supplier's. That keeps the split clear: we are the mast and elevation people, not the payload people.

Q · 04 What do you build, and what is bought-in or customer-furnished?

We build the machine that raises and holds the payload, and we are clear that the payload is not ours. Neometrix engineers, builds and integrates the telescopic mast structure, the extension drive (pneumatic, electromechanical or hydraulic) and its lock, the payload head and interface, the base with its levelling and stabilisation (outriggers, guys, wind rating), the control and actuation system (controller, HMI, height feedback, control block) and the integration of the whole mast onto a vehicle, trailer or shelter. This is squarely our competence — the same hydraulics, pneumatics, structures, fabrication and controls engineering behind our platform-integration, recovery and deployable-systems lines. What is customer-furnished or specialist is the payload (the antenna, sensor, camera or light), and any proprietary tube sets or slew bearings we source. To be plain about status: this is offered at prototype and engineered-to-order stage — much of the demand is indigenised-prototype design-and-development — and no specific delivered mast is claimed on this page.

Q · 05 Pneumatic or motorised drive — which do you use?

It depends on the payload, the height, the dwell time and how fast it must deploy. A pneumatic mast, raised by compressed air, is light, compact and fast — ideal for rapid deployment of a lighter payload, where the mast must go up and come down in a hurry and stay stowed small. Its trade-off is that it typically needs an air source and is better suited to lighter loads and shorter dwells. A motorised / electromechanical mast — driven by a ballscrew, rack or winch-and-cable — carries heavier payloads, and a mechanical lock lets it hold its height without continuous power, which suits long dwell times and heavier or larger payloads. A hydraulic drive is used for the heaviest payloads and where hydraulic power is already on the platform. In practice we select the drive to the requirement — and often the control-and-actuation approach matters as much as the drive, which is why the controller, HMI and actuation are a deliverable in their own right.

Q · 06 How is it deployed and made stable?

A mast is only useful if it deploys quickly and then holds the payload steady, so both are designed in. For deployment, the mast is configured for its platform: portable or tripod for a man-portable capability, vehicle-mounted where it travels on the vehicle and raises from it, or a trailer-mounted mobile mast system that is self-contained — mast, power, levelling and control on one trailer — so a team can tow it in, deploy, raise, work, stow and move on. For stability, the base is levelled (screw feet or jacks), outriggers or guy lines are deployed to widen the footprint and resist overturning, and the mast is stiff and locked so the payload holds its position. The whole system is designed to a wind rating — a stated wind speed at which the payload is held steady, and a higher survival speed — so the operator knows exactly what it will do on a bad day. Fast in, steady up, fast out: that is the measure of a good mobile mast.

↗

The mobile-platform line from Neometrix.

The payload-integration, sensor-platform and deployable-shelter systems alongside it — engineered at our Noida facility.

↗ Integration

Optical System Integration on Mobile Platforms

Integrating a payload onto a moving platform — a mast elevates what this line integrates.

↗ Sensor Platform

Counter-Drone System

A site-protection sensor layout — a mast is how the sensor gets its height and coverage.

↗ Deployment

Field Technical Shelter

The deployable shelter a mast raises from — the mobile infrastructure alongside it.

Browse all Neometrix product lines.

Get a quotation

Send the payload
and the height.

The defence programmes desk replies within two working days with a clause-by-clause compliance matrix and a budgetary quotation. Write to [email protected] or use the form.

Enquire — hoistable mast Capability sheet (PDF) +91 7777 876 876

ISO 9001 / 14001 PROTOTYPE & ENGINEERED TO ORDER — TELESCOPIC & HOISTABLE MAST PNEUMATIC · ELECTROMECHANICAL · HYDRAULIC · LEVELLED · LOCKED · WIND-RATED · RAISE THE PAYLOAD ENGINEERED IN NOIDA · INDIA

Raise the payload. Hold it steady.

Get the payload up high.

Elevate the payload

A payload is a lever arm

We build the machine that carries it

Raise, hold, retract.

The Telescopic Mast

The Drive & Lock

The Base & Stability

Control, Actuation & Integration

Reference mast, built to the payload.

Where a mast requirement goes wrong

One machine, the drive you need.

Pneumatic Rapid-Deployment Mast

Motorised Locking Mast

Vehicle / Trailer Mast System

Mast Control & Actuation System

Where it elevates.

Common questions.

The mobile-platform line from Neometrix.

Optical System Integration on Mobile Platforms

Counter-Drone System

Field Technical Shelter

Send the payload
and the height.

Similar Products

Share This Page

Raise the payload. Hold it steady.

Get the payload up high.

Elevate the payload

A payload is a lever arm

We build the machine that carries it

Raise, hold, retract.

The Telescopic Mast

The Drive & Lock

The Base & Stability

Control, Actuation & Integration

Reference mast, built to the payload.

Where a mast requirement goes wrong

One machine, the drive you need.

Pneumatic Rapid-Deployment Mast

Motorised Locking Mast

Vehicle / Trailer Mast System

Mast Control & Actuation System

Where it elevates.

Common questions.

The mobile-platform line from Neometrix.

Optical System Integration on Mobile Platforms

Counter-Drone System

Field Technical Shelter

Send the payloadand the height.

Similar Products

Share This Page

Send the payload
and the height.