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Defense & Combat
AeroVironment RQ-20 Puma AE: The Hand-Launched ISR Platform That Lands in the Ocean
AeroVironment's RQ-20 Puma AE is a hand-launched, battery-electric small UAS that operates from ship decks to desert outposts, delivering day/night ISR without a runway. A two-decade operational record and front-line deployments in Ukraine make it the Group 1/2 benchmark for allied militaries worldwide.
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Defense & Combat
Switchblade 300, 400, and 600: AeroVironment's Loitering Munition Family, Explained
From a 1.77-kilogram backpackable drone that proved itself in Ukrainian urban combat to a 65-pound tank-killer now in battalion-level service, AeroVironment's Switchblade family is the U.S. Army's answer to the loitering munition era — built around a single patented capability: the ability to abort at the last second.
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Defense & Combat
Loitering Munitions Explained: The Watching Weapon Reshaping Modern Combat
From Israel's 1989 Harpy to Ukraine's Lancet hunter-killer teams, loitering munitions fuse sensor and effector into a single expendable platform — a category distinct from both the cruise missile and the reusable drone, and now in procurement at scale across 50-plus countries.
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Industry & Contracts
AeroVironment and Ubiqconn Target Taiwan's Controller Fragmentation Problem
AeroVironment and Taiwan's Ubiqconn Technology have signed an MOU to build a common drone-controller ecosystem for Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense, which is pursuing procurement of tens of thousands of domestically produced UAS — and needs a single interface to run all of them.
