Red Cat Holdings introduced Hellcat, a dual-use small unmanned aircraft system (sUAS), on June 15 in conjunction with Eurosatory 2026. The platform is built on the company’s Black Widow architecture — the drone developed for the U.S. Army’s Short Range Reconnaissance (SRR) program — and is intended to extend Red Cat’s small UAS offering to international customers and coalition partners.

Red Cat said Hellcat’s design incorporates warfighter feedback and lessons from an ongoing partnership with Ukraine. The system is built around Modular Open Systems Architecture (MOSA) principles, allowing customers to configure command-and-control, payload, software, and integration pathways to match operational requirements, procurement frameworks, and coalition interoperability needs.

The baseline configuration includes GPS-denied operation from power-on, Return-to-Home (RTH) azimuth recovery without GPS, WEB Standoff Radio support, and a low-visibility tactical finish. The aircraft offers more than 50 minutes of flight time and up to 11 kilometers of range with maintained operator line-of-sight. A field-repairable, rucksack-portable design is standard, and the platform is available with Red Cat’s Ocellus 3CP three-camera payload.

Hellcat joins Red Cat’s Family of Systems alongside Black Widow, FlightWave Edge 130, FANG, and the Blue Ops Variant 7 Uncrewed Surface Vessel (USV).