The verified answer
As of Oct 2026, DEPLOY verifies Red Cat Holdings: 2 models, 2 deployments across 2 regions. 3 sources back the record.
Red Cat Holdings holds 2 DIU Blue UAS listings, per the DEPLOY registry.
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Appears inMilitary & defense drones
Overview
Red cat Holdings is an American drone company developing military and commercial UAVs through its Teal Drones subsidiary (Black Widow, Golden Eagle), listed on NASDAQ. The company provides compact military-grade drones for defense and security applications.
Verified record
- Verified deployments
- 2 deployments on file
- Active incidents
- None on file
Key facts
Product
Cap-flag
CEO
Subsidiaries
Products
Blue UAS
Subsidiary
Data & sources
Press releases
1
News coverage
1
Web sources
1
3 sources backing this record.View all →
Models (2)
View all models →Current platform
Teal Golden Eagle
Small surveillance drone manufactured by Teal Drones (Red Cat Holdings). Ordered by NATO member for deployment in Ukraine.
Current platform
Teal Black Widow
The Teal Black Widow is a soldier-borne ISR rucksack quadcopter made by Teal Drones, a subsidiary of Red Cat Holdings (NASDAQ: RCAT), and is recorded in the aerial form factor as the US Army Short Range Reconnaissance program drone. A hand-launched, foldable Group-1 quadcopter for single-operator short-range reconnaissance, it carries a Teledyne FLIR Hadron 640R+ electro-optical/infrared payload, an AES-256 frequency-hopping Doodle Labs radio, and a Qualcomm RB5 AI-capable compute module running FLIR's Prism AI stack, with about 45 minutes of endurance and roughly five miles of link range. It is primarily a manually piloted ISR drone with assistive autonomy such as forward obstacle avoidance and a radio-off stealth mode, so the registry frames any autonomous-drone characterization as an overclaim. Its load-bearing fact is verified: the Black Widow won the US Army Short Range Reconnaissance Program of Record in a production selection announced November 19, 2024, displacing the incumbent Skydio. The registry cap-flags the contract scope, however: the actual low-rate initial production contract is about 12.9 million dollars per a US Army FOIA disclosure rather than the larger figures used in management framing, and the often-cited 5,880-systems number is the Army's stated five-year objective, explicitly subject to change, not an obligated quantity, with a reported Tranche 2 expansion to about 35 million dollars. The common framing of the Black Widow as a Black Hornet alternative is corrected here: it is a different and larger class than Teledyne FLIR's roughly 70-gram Black Hornet nano-UAV and replaced Skydio on the platoon-level SRR program rather than replacing the Black Hornet. Red Cat is a cash-burning small-cap reliant on dilutive financing, with fiscal-year 2025 revenue of 40.7 million dollars driven by SRR deliveries against a 72.1 million dollar net loss, and the registry records the maturity as low-rate production.
Red Cat Holdings on the deployment map
View the global map2 verified deployments across 2 regions, newest verified Jun 2024. Explore where Red Cat Holdings's robots are operating, by place and type.
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Relationships
Current leadership (4)
- Jeffrey Thompson Chairman, CEO & PresidentIR-verified
- Christian Koji Ericson COOIR-verified
- Geoffrey Hitchcock CROIR-verified
- Christian Morrison CFOIR-verified
Founders (2)
- Jeffrey Thompsoncofounderfounded 2016-01-01
- George Matuscofounderno longer at company
Former / Previously (1)
- George Matus Founder, Teal Drones (acquired by Red Cat 2021); former Red Cat CTOsecondary-verified
Safety record
No incidents on record for Red Cat Holdings.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
Full safety record: incidents, sourcing, and exposure data →
Operator customers (1)
- Red Cat Holdings2 deployments
Recent coverage
Red Cat Holdings in third-party press
Peers
97 peers across 1 segment. Every Red Cat Holdings competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.
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- AEVEX Aerospacedirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- ATL Global Holding AGdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- Aereodirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- AeroVironmentdirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- AgXeeddirect competitor(inferred)moderate
- AirForestrydirect competitor(inferred)moderate
Mentioned on (8)
Registry pages whose text names Red Cat Holdings.
Robots and products (2)
Deployments (1)
Supplied by (3)
Sensors
- Teledyne FLIRvia Teal Black WidowFLIR Hadron 640R+ dual thermal-visible camera module (Boson+ 640 radiometric thermal 640x512 at 32 deg HFOV + 64MP visible at 67 deg HFOV; includes FLIR Prism AI embedded software for object detection and target tracking) -- selected by Red Cat Holdings for production of Black Widow under U.S. Army Short-Range Reconnaissance (SRR) Program of Record; bilateral November 2024supplies
Actuators & motors
- Unusual Machinescompany-levelmotorsupplies
Inbound supply edges feeding this company directly or via the models it owns. Same source bar as the outbound view (verified against at least two strong sources).
Financial state
- Reporting basis
- private_reported
- Lifecycle stage
- mature
- Counterparty risk class
- low
Each numeric field carries its own basis marker. Aggregators report a number; this surface preserves the source class so verification depth travels with the value.
Regulatory filings (2)
- diu_blue_uasdiu blue uas · us_dodcleared
Linked models: Teal Black Widow
- diu_blue_uasdiu blue uas · us_dodactive2024-01-01
Linked models: Teal Black Widow
Timeline
Every recorded move in Red Cat Holdings’s history, most recent first: funding rounds, partnerships, acquisitions, supply-chain starts, key hires, and press.
New supplierNew supplier: Doodle Labs
2026-06-27Supply: mesh-radio from Doodle Labs
New supplierNew supplier: Unusual Machines
2026-06-26Supply: motor from Unusual Machines
Recent activity
Every change to this record is dated, sourced, and independently verified where marked.
- Verified media addedVerifiedJun 4, 2026
Teal Black Widow capabilities
- Record createdJun 4, 2026
Added to the verified registry
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJun 1, 2024
Teal Black Widow at Salt Lake City
- Deployment verifiedVerifiedJan 1, 2024
Teal Golden Eagle at Ukraine
Sources (3)
- https://ir.redcatholdings.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/160/red-cat-announces-production-selection-for-u-s-army-short-range-reconnaissance-program
- https://www.therobotreport.com/red-cat-wins-u-s-army-next-gen-drone-contract-over-skydio/
- https://www.aviationtoday.com/2025/08/07/red-cat-expects-lrip-order-soon-for-armys-srr-small-drone-aggressive-ramp-up-in-fy-26/
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Methodology: Verified · 3 sources (1 primary) · last reviewed 2026-10-10
Verification posture
Verified
High confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-10-10
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- primary-company-ir
- Company IR disclosure
- 1
- secondary-trade-publication
- Trade publication
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
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In the press
Recent coverage mentioning Red Cat Holdings from third-party publications. Automatically surfaced; not part of the verified registry record.
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Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /companies/red-cat-holdings.md
- RSS feed: /companies/red-cat-holdings/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/companies/11d9426a-1c83-46f8-a45b-406940665f32
- Revision history: /companies/red-cat-holdings/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Peer companies
- Amazon25 models
- DJI9 models
- Anduril Industries7 models
- Skydio6 models
- Autel Robotics4 models
- Baykar4 models
Video
RCAT stock analysis is an absolute requirement right now as Red Cat Holdings rapidly scales its drone deliveries under the U.S. Army's SRR program. In this vide
Heat Index
Serious50/100
A composite of competitive footprint, funding, press velocity, active partnerships, and supply-chain edges. Different from the Intelligence score below (which is per-form-factor productization). Non-robotics companies cap at 25.
Reality vs attention
Red Cat Holdings draws attention at the 53rd percentile but verifies reality at the 20th percentile among aerial robots. Hype Gap +33.1, 21st widest among aerial robots.
6-month trend
Analysis
Clean safety record across 2 verified deployments. Limited public funding data for capital position assessment.
Signal flags
Dimension breakdown
Verified signal
Attention (reach, not merit)
DEPLOY Intelligence scores are computed from verified registry data: confirmed deployments, disclosed funding rounds, regulatory filings, active job listings, video viewership, and press coverage. Confidence ratings reflect data availability. Scores update nightly.
DEPLOY Indices — verified vs claimed
Last computed: Oct 18, 2026