AeroVironment (AV) has been awarded a contract for the U.S. Army’s Directed Requirement (DR) for Lethal Unmanned Systems (LUS). The 5-year contract from Army Contracting Command-Aberdeen Proving ...

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A Switchblade 600 made by AeroVironment launches from a General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper drone earlier this year in an experimental test flight. (AeroVironment) In recent years, AeroVironment’s Switchblade ...

In context: Switchblade drones are precision-guided missiles that can loiter over the battlefield for up to 40 minutes while relaying video feeds back to troops before smashing into targets kamikaze ...

The LUS Directed Requirement is the Army’s first effort to equip soldiers in infantry battalions with lethal, man-portable loitering munition systems. The combat-proven Switchblade systems will ...