Redwire’s Penguin Mk3 Group 3 vertical takeoff and landing drone. (Photo: Redwire)
Redwire Corp. on Tuesday said it received a multi-year, multi-million dollar contract from a NATO ally to deliver the company’s Penguin Mk3 unmanned aircraft system (UAS).
Redwire said the contract is valued in the “high-eight figures” but declined to disclose the exact value or say how many of the drones will be delivered to the unnamed customer.
The Mk3 is part of the Redwire’s Penguin family of UAS that include Groups 2 and 3 drones, vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL), catapult launch, and medium and long-range endurance. The company has delivered more than 250 Penguin UAS to Ukraine’s armed forces through previous U.S. security assistance packages.
The Mk3 VTOL is a Group 3 UAS and is the latest Penguin model and features improved modularity, mission adaptability and capacity to scale for a range of operational requirements, Redwire said. The drone has up to 14 hours of endurance, multiple payload bays with a total capacity weighing nearly 18 pounds and has a communications range up to 112 miles.
“Penguin Mk3 builds on years of operational, combat experience to deliver a scalable, adaptable solution aligned with the demands of modern defense environments,” Steve Adlich, president of Redwire Defense Tech, said in a statement.
The Mk3’s being delivered to the NATO ally are payload agnostic but will include Redwire’s Octopus electro-optical and infrared payloads. The Penguin UAS can operate autonomously once mission parameters and coordinates are set with a human-in-the-loop.
A version of this story originally appeared in sister publication Defense Daily.
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