Red Cat used Eurosatory 2026 in Paris to launch Hellcat, a dual-use small UAS built on the Black Widow platform and pitched to allied and coalition operators. The configuration shifts the company’s Black Widow lineage toward a more open, modular architecture, with customer control over command and control, payloads, software and integration paths.
Red Cat says Hellcat was shaped by warfighter feedback and its Ukraine partnership, and it enters with GPS-denied operation from power-on, azimuth recovery without GPS, WEB standoff radio support, and a rucksack-portable, field-repairable build. The baseline system claims more than 50 minutes of flight time and up to 11 km of range, with an Ocellus 3CP payload option.
The launch signals Red Cat’s wider push from Army-rooted reconnaissance toward exportable coalition systems, while its USV roadmap points to a broader multi-domain portfolio.