Red Cat Teal 2 Drone for Night Operations

Pink Cat Launches Teal 2 sUAS at AAAA Summit in Nashville

By DRONELIFE Employees Author Ian M. Crosby

April 26, 2023 marks the official launch of the army expertise firm Red Cat Holdings‘ new army grade SUAS, Teal 2.

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The drone will probably be proven to the general public for the primary time on the 2023 AAAA Military Aviation Mission Options Summit in Nashville, Tennessee. Teal 2, beforehand restricted to early adopters, will be newly ordered for army, authorities and business purposes. The system is manufactured at Pink Cat’s Salt Lake Metropolis-based manufacturing unit.

“Most army operations happen at evening, and Teal 2 is precisely the sUAS warriors need,” mentioned Pink Cat CEO Jeff Thompson. “Teal 2, ‘Dominate the Night™‘ and comes because the world’s main small drone system for evening operations. The system additionally provides the most recent intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) expertise, offering time-critical info and enabling operators to make sooner, smarter choices.”

The primary SUAS outfitted with Teledyne FLIRTeal 2, ‘s new Hadron 640R sensor, provides clients the very best decision thermal imaging out there in a compact (Group 1) type issue specialised for working at evening. Rugged, moveable Teal 2 will be deployed within the harshest environments. Multi-vehicle command and management permits a 360-degree view of a goal or ISR over a number of targets. Along with Teledyne FLIR, expertise companions for Teal 2 embrace: Athena AI, Reveal the Technology And Tomahawk Robotics.

U.S. Customs and Border Safety, one of many early adopters of Teal 2, has ordered 54 items presently used to supply extra aerial reconnaissance, surveillance and monitoring functionality to extend situational consciousness for U.S. subject commanders and brokers.

Pink Cat subsidiary Teal Drones is a member of the “Blue UAS” checklist of producers licensed to provide gear to the US army. The corporate is one in all solely three drone producers invited to take part within the US Military’s Quick Vary Reconnaissance Slice 2 program, which goals to provide a transportable army SUAS for surveillance and reconnaissance operations.

“Teal 2’s superior expertise and progressive design will assist redefine the way forward for protection,” Thompson mentioned. “This week’s AAAA summit is your first alternative to see the system up shut and in particular person.”

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Ian attended the Dominican College of California the place he graduated in English in 2019. With a lifelong ardour for writing and storytelling and a powerful curiosity in expertise, he now contributes to DroneLife as a workers author.

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