Defence’s Advanced Strategic Capabilities Accelerator (ASCA), through Mission Talon Strike, has issued a Request for Tenders (RFT) for technologies that can address the Problem Statement, “How might we strike land targets from medium range with low cost, and launched loitering…
Washington DC firm AeroVironment (AV) has been awarded a 5-year Indefinite Delivery, Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract for the US Army’s Directed Requirement (DR) for Lethal Unmanned Systems (LUS). The contract, from Army Contracting Command-Aberdeen Proving Ground, is for Switchblade loitering…
Some of the capabilities and one of the systems selected for accelerated fielding as part of the first tranche of the US Replicator initiative are already in US military service. The Replicator initiative, which was launched last year by the…
Arlington, Virginia-based AeroVironment’s Switchblade 600 loitering munition has been selected for Tranche 1 of the first iteration of the US Department of Defense’s (DoD) Replicator initiative. The AeroVironment (AV) Switchblade 600 is a man-portable, extended-range loitering munition system equipped with…
The US Marine Corps has selected the latest version of the AeroVironment Switchblade 300 for the first phase of its Organic Precision Fires-Light (OPF-L) program. Washington DC-based AeroVironment’s (AV’s) Switchblade 300 Block 20 loitering munition system (LMS) will provide the…
US company AeroVironment has unveiled the newest version of its Switchblade® 300 rapidly deployable loitering missile system. The Switchblade 300 Block 20 builds on Block 10C’s performance in Ukraine with new operational features and significant performance and capability improvements. The company…
Melbourne-based Sentient Vision Systems has signed a multi-year contract extension with US firm AeroVironment, a global leader in intelligent, multi-domain robotic systems, to provide enhanced airborne surveillance capabilities. Sentient Vision Systems’ Kestrel Moving Target Indication (MTI) system has been part…