Pink Cat CEO Jeff Thompson throughout pilot coaching for brand new Teal 2 army drone.
Pink Cat Holdings CEO Visiting NATO Nations to Focus on Navy Drone Help for Ukraine
by DRONELIFE Employees Author Ian M. Crosby
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Jeff Thompson, CEO of army know-how firm Pink Cat Holdings, might be a part of a delegation visiting NATO international locations this week to debate army drone help for Ukrainian forces.
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Pink Cat’s Teal 2
Pink Cat subsidiary Teal Drones’ new military-grade drone, the Teal 2, might be showcased by Thompson to NATO leaders. Anticipated to launch in Q2 2023 and at present out there to first-adopter clients, the Teal 2 is designed to be the world-leading drone resolution for nighttime operations.
In accordance with The Wall Avenue Journal, Ukrainian forces “lack sufficient drones to identify targets and direct artillery – particularly more-expensive fashions with night-vision cameras that will enable them to work in the dead of night, when the Russians search to creep ahead.”
“In Ukraine and elsewhere, most army operations happen at evening, and the Teal 2 provides warfighters precisely the answer they want,” mentioned Thompson. “Teal 2 is the primary drone to combine the world’s greatest new night-time drone digicam – next-generation thermal-imaging know-how from Teledyne FLIR. We’ve additionally partnered with different business leaders, resembling Tomahawk Robotics, Reveal Know-how and Immervision, to supply extra game-changing drone capabilities. These embody multi-vehicle management, 3D mapping and object detection.”
Thus far, Pink Cat has stuffed an order for 54 models of the Teal 2 from U.S. Customs and Border Safety, which might be deployed to grant supplemental airborne reconnaissance, surveillance and monitoring capabilities for enhanced situational consciousness.
Pink Cat additionally beforehand stuffed an order from a NATO member nation for 15 models of Teal’s Golden Eagle drone for deployment to Ukrainian forces.
“Pink Cat needs to do all we will to get the Ukrainian warfighter one of the best and newest American know-how that enables them to dominate the evening, and that’s why I’m assembly with European army resolution makers this week,” mentioned Thompson.
Teal is a part of the Blue UAS cleared listing, which designates producers with the authorization to provide the U.S. army with tools. The corporate can be one in every of solely three drone producers invited to take part within the U.S. Military’s Brief Vary Reconnaissance Tranche 2 (SRR T2), a program for the event of a conveyable small uncrewed aerial system to be used by military platoons in surveillance and reconnaissance operations.
Ian attended Dominican College of California, the place he acquired a BA in English in 2019. With a lifelong ardour for writing and storytelling and a eager curiosity in know-how, he’s now contributing to DroneLife as a workers author.
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