The 100 unmanned systems heading to Ukraine are actually small "Switchblade" drones, a U.S. official told ABC News. A U.S. Air Force MQ-1B Predator unmanned aerial vehicle carrying a Hellfire ...

AeroVironment Inc. has completed a thorough demonstration of its small Switchblade unmanned aerial vehicle, reports Aviation Week’s Ares Blog. The battery-powered Switchblade is a UAV that can ...

Graham Rouse with 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, launches the Switchblade 300, a weaponized Small Unmanned Air System, at Range 230 for Integrated Training Exercise (ITX) 1-20 on Marine Corps ...

The Switchblade, sometimes described as a ... it led to a 2006 AeroVironment contract with the Air Force for a Miniature Unmanned Aerial Vehicle. This innocuous-sounding device was a small drone ...

The Switchblade UAV, developed by AeroVironment, weighs less than two kilos, is compact enough to fit into a soldier's backpack and is launched from a tube. The UAV's wings spread out as it ...

Ukraine will be provided with long-range missiles and 100 "tactical unmanned aerial systems," as Biden called them. More precisely, these are Switchblade armed drones. Manufactured by ...

On Aug. 28, the maker of unmanned aerial vehicles announced that it had received an award to supply the Army with $15.8 million worth of Switchblade drones. One week later, the Pentagon announced that ...

Ukraine's military has used the Switchblade 600 system in battle ... and it’s preparing to purchase the unmanned aircraft. And Romania this month inked a framework agreement with Israel ...

To improve its unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) capability ... Deliveries of the ordered Switchblade systems are expected to begin in months. The LUS Directed Requirement is the Army’s first ...

Nawabi lofts a Puma drone into the air while standing next to a Switchblade launch tube. The company has provided nearly 3,000 unmanned systems to Ukraine, including ground robots. There are also ...

The Army will buy at least 1,000 Switchblade 600s, which can strike tanks or other armored targets, as part of the first round of Replicator. (Stephen Losey/Staff) The U.S. Army will field more than 1 ...

A Switchblade 300 Block 20 loitering munition ... Aerovironment won a previous contract to fulfill the Army’s loitering unmanned systems directed requirement in December and is delivering ...