Drone technology company Red Cat Holdings, Inc. has acquired FlightWave Aerospace Systems Corporation, a provider of advanced vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) drones, sensors, and software solutions.
Red Cat is adding FlightWave’s Edge 130 to its larger family of low-cost, portable unmanned reconnaissance and precision lethal strike systems.
The platform will be incorporated alongside a new line of FANG™ First-Person View (FPV) drones that are all deployable in air, land, sea, and sub-sea environments.
The Edge 130 Blue is a Blue UAS Certified, military-grade tricopter for long-range mapping, inspection, surveillance, and reconnaissance needs.
Designed specifically for government and military applications, the Edge 130 Blue can be assembled and hand-launched in just one minute by a single user to capture high-accuracy aerial imagery with long-range autonomy.
Weighing in at only 1200g, the Edge 130 has been flown for up to 2 hours in certain configurations in forward flight mode, an industry-leading endurance among all other Blue UAS-approved drones available.
Red Cat’s mission is to redefine the role of sUAS for defense applications by combining the capabilities of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) drones with precision strike payloads. The company is established in the sUAS (Group 1) space with its flagship Teal 2 aircraft.
Jeff Thompson, Red Cat CEO, commented, “Today marks a transformative milestone for Red Cat and our goal to provide warfighters with a diverse set of rucksack portable drones required for mission effectiveness on today’s evolving battlefield. The acquisition of FlightWave broadens our range of drone products and opens up an entirely new revenue stream. The FlightWave Edge 130 Blue completes our Family of Systems and we will begin ramping manufacturing this quarter.”
