Product Details
The Ares 13 inch is where our lineup stops being about FPV and starts being about work. 785g of carbon fiber with 10mm arms and a 4mm bottom plate — this isn’t a frame you fly for fun on the weekend. It’s a frame you deploy because something needs inspecting, spraying, mapping, or monitoring, and it needs to happen reliably, in conditions that would shake a lighter frame apart.
Let’s talk about those 10mm arms. The MARK4 series maxes out at 8mm because that’s enough for FPV and light commercial use. The Ares doesn’t care about saving weight — it cares about not bending. When you’re flying a 2kg+ AUW rig on 13-inch props with heavy batteries and industrial sensors hanging off every mounting point, arm flex isn’t an inconvenience. It’s a failure mode. Ten millimeters of 3K T300 carbon fiber per arm eliminates that concern entirely. We press our own sheet and cut every arm in-house, so that 10mm thickness is the same on frame #1 and frame #1000.
The 4mm bottom plate is the other headline. Every MARK4 frame uses 3mm. The Ares jumps to 4mm because the bottom plate on an industrial drone does different work — it’s the structural foundation that everything else bolts to, and it takes the impact on every landing. On a commercial inspection drone that lands on concrete pads, gravel roads, and ship decks, that extra millimeter is the difference between a frame that lasts a season and one that lasts for years.
Wide X-type layout. Four arms of equal length meeting symmetrically at the center. No side plates — the Ares doesn’t need them because the 4mm bottom plate and 10mm arms form a rigid enough structure on their own. Camera side plates are 2.0mm for mounting your inspection cameras and thermal sensors. If you’re choosing between this and the MARK4 V2 13-inch, the question is simple: do you want a 370g frame that can carry commercial gear, or a 785g frame that’s built from the ground up to be commercial gear?
Specifications
| Specification | Details |
|---|---|
| Model | Ares 13 Inch |
| Dimensions | 478 × 480 × 44.6mm |
| Wheelbase | 594mm |
| Frame Weight | 785g (frame only) |
| Frame Design | Wide X-Type |
| Arm Material | 10mm 3K T300 carbon fiber |
| Bottom / Middle Plate | 4.0mm 3K carbon fiber |
| Top Plate | 2.0mm 3K carbon fiber |
| Side Plate | — |
| Camera Side Plate | 2.0mm 3K carbon fiber |
| Prop Size | 13 inch |
| Motor Mount | 16×16mm / 19×19mm |
| FC Mounting | 20×20mm / 25.5×25.5mm / 30.5×30.5mm |
| Camera Mount | 19mm / 20mm micro FPV camera |
Package Includes
- Full set of 3K carbon fiber plates (arms, bottom/middle/top plates, camera side plates)
- Aluminum standoffs
- Stainless steel screws and hardware
- Arm soft mounts (vibration damping)
- Battery pad
- Battery strap
Applications
- Power line and infrastructure inspection — 10mm arms and 4mm bottom plate handle wind gusts and turbulence near towers. Wide X symmetry keeps the platform stable when you’re hovering 50m up next to high-voltage lines
- Agricultural spraying — Bolt on your tank and pump system. The 785g frame weight is irrelevant when you’re carrying 5L+ of spray payload — what matters is that the frame doesn’t flex under the combined weight and vibration of the pump
- Commercial mapping and survey — RTK base, LiDAR, or photogrammetry payload — the 4mm plate and X-type geometry give you a rock-solid sensor platform that doesn’t drift out of calibration mid-flight
- Industrial monitoring stations — Fixed-position hover and observation for construction sites, mining operations, or security perimeters. The Ares is built to stay up and come back intact, shift after shift
Why Choose YTCarbon
- We make the carbon. Period. Raw 3K T300 fiber enters our facility, gets pressed into sheet, and gets CNC cut into your Ares 13 inch carbon fiber frame — all under one roof. No sourcing from unknown suppliers, no batch inconsistency, no excuses when your client’s QA team shows up
- 4mm plate means 4mm plate. One solid piece of 3K carbon fiber per plate, not layered thinner sheets glued together. CNC machined with deburred edges and chamfered corners to stop cracks before they start
- No MOQ. One frame for prototyping, ten for a pilot fleet, five hundred for full deployment. Same material, same process, same inspection — whether you’re testing or scaling
- ISO 9001 certified. Independently audited quality management system. Material Test Reports, dimensional data, and traceable documentation available when your project requires compliance proof
- Deploy before you commit. Get a sample at cost. Mount your payload, run your flight tests, submit your reports. Then order volume with data your stakeholders can verify
Certifications
Every frame we ship is backed by documented quality credentials. We hold ISO 9001 certification for our quality management system, and our carbon fiber materials carry RoHS and CE compliance — which matters if you’re reselling into the EU or supplying customers who need traceable documentation. Need a copy for your records? Just ask and we’ll send the PDF.
How We Manufacture Your Frame
A lot of frame sellers can’t tell you how their product gets made because they don’t make it — they buy it from a supplier who buys it from another supplier. We’re different. The process below shows what actually happens inside our facility: raw 3K T300 carbon fiber comes in, we lay it up and press it into sheet, then our CNC machines cut every plate and arm to spec. After machining, each part gets a visual and dimensional inspection before it goes into the package.
Frequently Asked Questions
+ Why would I choose the Ares over the MARK4 V2 13-inch?
+ Is 10mm arm thickness overkill?
+ Why no side plates on the Ares?
+ What battery setup for the Ares 13-inch?
+ Can this frame be certified for commercial operations?
Need an Industrial 13 Inch Carbon Fiber Drone Frame?
The Ares 13 inch — 10mm arms, 4mm bottom plate, Wide X-type geometry built for power line inspection, agricultural spraying, and commercial mapping. Custom specs and OEM branding available.