SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, April 25, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Red Cat Holdings, Inc. (Nasdaq: RCAT) (“Red Cat”), a drone know-how firm integrating robotic {hardware} and software program for navy, authorities, and business operations, introduced it has efficiently handed digital warfare (EW) testing in Ukraine with Doodle Labs. The profitable take a look at is a part of a steady innovation cycle that started in May 2023 with a partnership between Doodle Labs and Red Cat for its U.S. Army Short Range Reconnaissance (SRR) program prototype.
The ongoing partnership between Red Cat and Doodle Labs is addressing the rising want by the U.S. and its allies for small, autonomous, and attritable drones geared up with anti-jamming radios able to working in digital warfare. Russian jamming has posed the most important problem to Ukrainian armed forces’ use of sUAS at scale. Teal techniques with Doodle Labs frequency-hopping radios can evade jamming makes an attempt and are usable in multi-domain environments for surveillance and swarming operations.
“The predominant goal of each certainly one of our partnerships is to extend the survivability and lethality of the warfighter – and our work with Doodle Labs isn’t any exception,” mentioned George Matus Red Cat CTO. “Requirements for operation in EW environments are altering quickly as sUAS turn out to be an integral a part of fashionable warfare. The U.S. and its allies require a functionality that forestalls their techniques from being jammed throughout vital missions, and this profitable EW take a look at is a serious step ahead for Teal in assembly these necessities.”
Red Cat’s success with Doodle Labs and integration of its Helix Mesh Rider® Radio provides to its sturdy tactical ecosystem of partnerships with main corporations within the trade. Other Red Cat {hardware} and software program companions embrace Sentien Robotics, Ocean Power Technologies, Primordial Labs, Tomahawk Robotics, Athena AI, Teledyne FLIR, Reveal Technology, Immervision, and Doodle Labs, which mixed allow multi-domain capabilities that may deter battle or dominate the battle.
“The conflict in Ukraine has demonstrated the actual world want for low-cost, U.S. made drones that may be deployed quickly at scale and face up to enemy jamming makes an attempt,” mentioned Amol Parikh, Doodle Labs Co-CEO. “Drone communication and jamming is a steady recreation of cat and mouse that requires fixed innovation. Our Mesh Rider radio is confirmed to evade essentially the most extremely refined jamming makes an attempt at lengthy distances, and we’re extremely inspired by the profitable integration and EW testing with Red Cat and Teal.”
Red Cat subsidiary Teal Drones builds its Teal 2 system, designed to assist U.S. and allied navy operations, public security organizations, and authorities businesses, at its Utah facility. Teal 2 is a cost-effective, man-portable sUAS designed to “Dominate the Night™” that has best-in-class night time imaginative and prescient, multi-vehicle management assist, and a totally modular design. It is each Blue UAS Certified and FAA Remote ID authorized.
Doodle Labs’ Helix Mesh Rider® radio has a built-in spectrum scanner that displays in-band interference and gives automated band and channel switching capabilities. It gives the tactical functionality of switching frequency bands within the subject with 6 bands in a single radio. With sponsorship from the Defense Innovation Unit, Helix is the one radio that meets the Blue UAS program necessities in a single radio.
About Red Cat, Inc.
Red Cat (Nasdaq: RCAT) is a drone know-how firm integrating robotic {hardware} and software program for navy, authorities and business operations. Red Cat’s options are designed to “Dominate the Night™” and embrace the Teal 2, a small unmanned system providing the highest-resolution thermal imaging in its class. Learn extra at www.redcat.pink.
About Doodle Labs
Doodle Labs designs and produces industrial-grade wi-fi networking options. The firm focuses on mesh networking for robotic techniques, offering excessive throughput, long-range Mesh Rider options for UAVs, UGVs, AMRs, linked groups, authorities/protection, personal wi-fi and different functions. The firm’s Helix Mesh Rider Radio was developed with sponsorship from DIU and is the Blue UAS program’s datalink of selection. Doodle Labs was named to Fast Company’s checklist of “The World’s Most Innovative Companies of 2024,” checking in at no. 2 within the Robotics class.
Doodle Labs was based in 1999 and has workplaces within the United States and Singapore. For extra info, go to
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