Cummings Aerospace unveiled a variant of its Hellhound drone designed to meet homeland defense missions at the Space and Missile Defense Symposium in Huntsville, Alabama, this week.
The company is taking its S3 variant and beefing it up into a new S4 variant to take on air defense missions, particularly countering drone threats, that could fit within the framework of President Donald Trump’s homeland missile defense shield dubbed Golden Dome .
The turbojet-powered, 3D-printed Hellhound S3 drone can carry a variety of payloads, and the company is putting that version forward as a loitering munition option for a competition that the U.S. Army is planning to kick off this year.
The S4 variant, designed to take on Golden Dome mission sets, is a scaled-up version of the S3 that adopts it