# Teal Black Widow: Price, Availability & Status (2026)

Teal's Black Widow (Red Cat) is the US Army SRR soldier-ISR drone, manually-piloted with assistive autonomy (not autonomous). It replaced Skydio, not the Black Hornet. Military, no consumer price.

## Price

_No verified price on record._

There is no consumer price. The Black Widow is military procurement (US Army Short Range Reconnaissance program), not a consumer product, so DEPLOY records zero price points. The ~$12.9M LRIP figure is a contract aggregate, not a per-unit price.

## Availability

_Status: internal-only_

This is military procurement, not a consumer product. From Teal Drones (a Red Cat Holdings subsidiary, NASDAQ: RCAT), the Black Widow is the US Army Short Range Reconnaissance program-of-record drone, at low-rate production.

## Status

The Teal Black Widow is a soldier-borne ISR rucksack quadcopter from Teal Drones, a subsidiary of Red Cat Holdings (NASDAQ: RCAT): a hand-launched, foldable Group-1 quadcopter for single-operator short-range reconnaissance with a Teledyne FLIR Hadron 640R+ EO/IR payload and FLIR's Prism AI stack. Its load-bearing fact is verified: the Black Widow won the US Army Short Range Reconnaissance (SRR) Program of Record in a production selection announced November 19, 2024, displacing the incumbent Skydio. Three aggregator framings are corrected here. The product is the Teal Black Widow, not 'Teal 2'. The contract scope is smaller than commonly framed: the low-rate initial production contract is about $12.9M per a US Army FOIA disclosure (not the larger management-framing figures), and the often-cited 5,880-systems number is the Army's stated five-year objective, explicitly subject to change, not an obligated quantity. And the 'Black Hornet alternative' framing is incorrect: the Black Widow is a different, larger class than Teledyne FLIR's roughly 70-gram Black Hornet nano-UAV, and it replaced Skydio on the platoon-level SRR program, not the Black Hornet. On autonomy it is primarily manually piloted with assistive autonomy (forward obstacle avoidance, a radio-off stealth mode), so any 'autonomous drone' characterization is an overclaim.

## Compare

| Model | Pricing | Tier |
| --- | --- | --- |
| [Neros Archer](/price/neros-archer) | No consumer price | absence (New-defense (FPV strike, piloted)) |
| [Quantum Systems Vector](/price/quantum-systems-vector) | No consumer price | absence (New-defense ISR (Munich)) |
| [Skydio X10](/price/skydio-x10) | No consumer price | absence (Enterprise (displaced on SRR)) |
| [Shield AI V-BAT](/price/shield-ai-v-bat) | No consumer price | absence (New-defense (autonomous VTOL ISR)) |

## Common questions

### Can I buy a Teal Black Widow?

No. The Black Widow is military procurement (US Army SRR program), not a consumer product; there is no consumer price.

### Is the Black Widow autonomous?

No. It is primarily a manually piloted soldier-ISR drone with assistive autonomy (forward obstacle avoidance, FLIR Prism, a radio-off stealth mode). Any 'autonomous drone' framing is an overclaim.

## How DEPLOY verified this

- [How DEPLOY tracks pricing](https://news.deploy.report/methodology/how-we-track-pricing)
- [How DEPLOY verifies deployment status](https://news.deploy.report/methodology/how-we-verify-deployment-status)

## Related reading

- [Deploy News: What is an autonomous drone?](https://news.deploy.report/explainers/what-is-an-autonomous-drone)
- [Deploy News: How DEPLOY verifies](https://news.deploy.report/explainers/how-deploy-verifies)

## On the registry

- [Model record](https://registry.deploy.report/models/teal-black-widow.md)
- [Manufacturer](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/red-cat-holdings.md)

_Canonical: https://deploy.report/price/teal-black-widow_