Utah-based security UAV specialist Teal Drones has been selected to develop a prototype craft in a final stage of the US Army’s Short Range Reconnaissance Tranche 2 (SRR T2) Program, which aims to create a powerful but portable small craft for surveillance and reconnaissance missions.

A unit of hardware-enabled drone software provider Red Cat Holdings since September, Teal was tapped by the US Army to create a small, rucksack portable prototype craft providing platoons with situational awareness of remote terrain they can’t yet see from the ground. To do so, the company will use its experience in producing its Department of Defense compliant Golden Eagle UAV, which is already used for information collection by combat soldiers, police officers, firefighters, wildlife managers, and industrial inspectors.

As reported yesterday, Teal is also moving to supply Ukraine’s armed forces with Golden Eagle drones for defense missions against invading the Russian…

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Source: dronedj.com