Product profile
C100
C100 is PDW tactical quadcopter for defense missions. The backpackable drone is designed for ISR, target designation and battlefield support, with long end...
Facts
- Company
- PDW
- Product type
- uav
- Status
- available
- Primary capability
- generalist
- Website
- https://www.pdw.ai/products/c100-public-safety
About C100
C100 is PDW's modular tactical quadcopter for public-safety and defence response. Its payload-agnostic architecture can carry thermal cameras, zoom turrets, radios, lights, medical packs or flotation equipment, with rapid payload changes for different missions.
The system can reach 40 mph, carry up to 10 pounds and fly for up to 74 minutes with an ISR payload. Built for harsh field use, C100 combines a portable airframe, modular payloads and rapid deployment so teams can add aerial eyes, communications or delivery support when ground response is slow.
Market context
generalist
Summary
Type: UAV
Core: Tactical lift
Function: Logistics
Audience: Defense
Specifications
- airframe
- Tactical quadcopter, Group 2 UAS
- compliance_status
- Military MIL-STD-810G and MIL-STD-1472H survivability standards cited by PDW
- deployment_time
- Dispatch to deployed in under 3 minutes
- max_flight_time_minutes
- 74 min
- max_payload_kg
- 4.54 kg
- max_speed_kmh
- 64.37 km/h
- payload_options
- Universal payload integration for thermal imaging, phone, radio, med pack, flotation device and custom payloads
- task_scope
- Defence ISR
- weather_rating
- IP54 compliant; validated to MIL-STD-810G and MIL-STD-1472H durability standards
Research, Articles and recent verified events
- OSC signs up to $820m conditional loan commitment with PDW — 2026-07-31
- PDW agrees to acquire Vanteon to expand communications engineering capacity — 2026-06-04
- PDW raises over $110M Series B to expand modular military drone production — 2026-03-25
- PDW moves its Attritable Multirotor strike drone into production — 2026-03-24
- PDW validates long-range and GPS-denied sUAS performance during 9 Mile test series — 2026-03-20
- PDW releases CORE 1.4 for the C100 platform — 2026-03-02
- PDW demonstrates C100 support capabilities during Crimson Tomahawk 25 — 2026-02-18
- PDW supports Army Transformation in Contact units at the National Training Center — 2026-01-28