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News - AeroVironment

Programme Results - Defence Insight

  • Military UAS - fixed-wing, Military UAS - mini

    Quantix Recon (Ukraine)

    Programme Background April Meeting In mid-April, just shy of two months after Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February, the Ambassador and the Defence Attaché at the Embassy of Ukraine met ...

  • Military UAS - fixed-wing, Military UAS - small

    Puma 3 AE (Uzbekistan)

    Programme Background Original FMS ContractOn 27 January 2022, the US DoD announced AeroVironment had been awarded an $8.54 million firm-fixed-price contract for an unknown quantity of ...

  • Loitering munitions

    Lethal Unmanned Systems (LUS) [US Army]

    Programme Background DoD Contract On 27 August 2024, the US DoD announced that AeroVironment had been awarded a $990 million hybrid (cost-plus-fixed-fee and firm-fixed-price) contract to provide "an ...

  • Military UAS - fixed-wing, Military UAS - mini

    Blackwing (Second Batch) [USA]

    Programme BackgroundFirst Batch The Blackwing originated from a 2013 initiative to develop a low-cost submarine-launched UAS for the US Navy. Following successful tests with the ...

  • Military UAS - fixed-wing, Military UAS - mini

    Blackwing (First Batch) [USA]

    Programme Background AeroVironment developed the Blackwing system as part of a 2013 US Navy and US Pacific Command (PACOM) sponsored Joint Capabilities Technology Demonstration (JCTD) ...

  • Loitering munitions

    Lethal Miniature Aerial Missile System (LMAMS) (Contracted) [US Army]

    Programme Background First Contract In June 2011, the US awarded AeroVironment a $4.9 series-production contract for the loitering munition, satisfying the US Army's Lethal Miniature ...

  • Military UAS - fixed-wing, Military UAS - small

    Puma 2 AE (Estonia)

    Programme Background The US DoD announced that it had awarded AeroVironment an $8.868 million firm-fixed-price contract to supply an undisclosed number of RQ-20B Puma AE ...

  • Military UAS - fixed-wing, Military UAS - mini, Military UAS - rotary-wing

    Vector / Scorpion (Netherlands)

    Programme Background AeroVironment RQ-11 Raven B The Royal Netherlands Army (RNLA) operates approximately 75 AeroVironment RQ-11 Raven B mini UAVs in the tactical ISTAR role, ...

  • Loitering munitions

    Switchblade 300 [France]

    Programme Background Plans to Purchase At Eurosatory 2022, Col. Arnaud Goujon, the French Army's chief of plans, told the media that the French Army was ...

  • Loitering munitions

    Switchblade 600 [USSOCOM]

    Programme Background Contract One AeroVironment confirmed in an April 2021 statement that it had been awarded a $26 million contract from the United States Special Operations ...

  • Loitering munitions

    Organic Precision Fire - Light (OPF-L) [USMC]

    Programme Background Force Design 2030 The USMC Force Design 2030 is a modernisation effort to create a lighter, more agile maritime force. In May 2022, an annual ...

  • Loitering munitions

    Switchblade 600 (Ukraine Aid) [US]

    Programme Background $300 Million USAI (1 April 2022) On 1 April 2022, the US DoD announced a $300 million military aid package for Ukraine following ...

  • Military UAS - fixed-wing

    Switchblade 300 (USA)

    Programme Background AeroVironment has been providing the Switchblade 300 loitering munition to the US Army under the long-standing Lethal Miniature Aerial Missile Systems (LMAMS) programme ...

  • Military UAS - fixed-wing

    Switchblade 300 (UK)

    Programme Background ContextAeroVironment has been providing the Switchblade 300 loitering munition to the US Army under the long-standing Lethal Miniature Aerial Missile Systems (LMAMS) programme ...

  • Military UAS - fixed-wing, Military UAS - small

    Medium Range/Medium Endurance (MR/ME) [USMC]

    Programme Background Force Design 2030 The USMC Force Design 2030 is a modernisation effort to create a lighter, more agile maritime force. The update to ...

Equipment Results - Defence Insight

  • Military UAS - fixed-wing, Military UAS - small

    Puma 2 AE

    The Puma 2 All Environment (AE), or RQ-20B in US nomenclature, is the second generation of AeroVironment's small UAS. The Puma 2 AE is sometimes called ...

  • Military UAS - rotary-wing, Military UAS - small

    VAPOR 55 MX

    AeroVironment's VAPOR 55 MX is an all-electric rotary-wing small UAV. It features a modular architecture that users can configure to support various mission requirements.  For example, ...

  • EO/IR systems

    Mantis i23

    AeroVironment’s Mantis i23 is a lightweight, compact EO/IR gimbal sensor suite, designed for its fleet of RQ-11B Raven UAS. The Mantis i23 is water-resistant and ...

  • Military UAS - fixed-wing, Military UAS - small

    P550

    Designed by AeroVironment, the P550 is a fixed-wing UAV purpose-built for long-range reconnaissance missions. It was developed in collaboration with Parry Labs and features Modular Open Systems ...

  • Military UAS - fixed-wing, Military UAS - mini

    Quantix Recon

    Quantix Recon is a fully autonomous reconnaissance and mapping UAS manufactured by AeroVironment. These capabilities are provided by the platform's 18MP RGB and Militpsectral camera, which ...

  • Military UAS - fixed-wing, Military UAS - tactical

    Jump 20

    The Jump 20 is a VTOL-capable variant of the T-20 platform manufactured by Arcturus UAV, a wholly-owned subsidiary of AeroVironment. The platform has an open ...

  • Military UAS - fixed-wing, Military UAS - HALE

    Global Observer

    The AeroVironment Global Observer HALE UAV was a developmental HALE UAV designed for various civil, commercial and government applications.  Development of the platform began in 2007 ...

  • EO/IR systems

    Mantis i45

    AeroVironment’s Mantis i45 EO/IR gimbal sensor suite is designed for the AeroVironment Puma AE small UAS, providing it with additional intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities. ...

  • Military UAS - fixed-wing, Military UAS - small

    Puma 3 AE

    The Puma 3 All Environment (AE), or RQ-20 in US nomenclature, is the third generation of AeroVironment's small UAS.  The UAS is designed for reconnaissance and ...

  • Military UAS - fixed-wing, Military UAS - mini

    Puma LE

    The Puma Long Endurance (LE) is a mini UAS manufactured by AeroVironment. The UAS has AeroVironment’s Mantis i45 gimbaled payload featuring EO/IR cameras and an NVG-visible ...

  • Military UAS - micro, Military UAS - rotary-wing

    Snipe Nano

    The Snipe Nano was a micro rotary-wing UAV developed by AeroVironment. Designed to give dismounted troops an immediate "over the wall, down the alley [and] around the hill" ISR ...

  • Military UAS - fixed-wing, Military UAS - small

    Puma AE

    The Puma All Environment (AE), or RQ-20A in US terminology, is the first generation of AeroVironment's small UAS. Succeeded by the Puma 2 AE, which the ...

  • Loitering munitions

    Switchblade 300

    The Switchblade 300 is a man-portable, tube-launched loitering munition manufactured by AeroVironment. The platform is rapidly deployable by one operator from either a self-contained ground launcher ...

  • Military UAS - fixed-wing, Military UAS - mini

    Blackwing

    Manufactured by AeroVironment and based on the Switchblade loitering munition, the Blackwing is a tube-launched UAV designed to deliver rapid ISR capabilities through its EO/IR ...

  • Military UAS - rotary-wing, Military UAS - small

    VAPOR 55

    The VAPOR 55 is an all-electric rotary-wing small UAV. Pulse Aerospace initially manufactured it before AeroVironment purchased the company in 2019.  Powered by a high energy-density lithium-polymer ...