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AeroVironment Inc AVAV

AeroVironment, Inc. is engaged in the design, development, production, delivery, and support of a technologically advanced portfolio of intelligent, multi-domain robotic systems and related services for government agencies and businesses. It supplies uncrewed aircraft and ground robot systems, loitering munitions systems and related services to organizations within or supplying the United States Department of Defense (DoD), other agencies. Its segments include UnCrewed Systems (UxS), Loitering Munition Systems (LMS), and MacCready Works (MW). The UxS segment focuses primarily on small, unmanned aircraft system (SUAS) products, medium UAS products, and unmanned ground vehicles (UGV) products. The LMS segment focuses primarily on tube-launched aircraft that deploy with the push of a button and fly at higher speeds than small UAS products. The MW segment focuses on research and development in the areas of robotics, sensors, software analytics, data intelligence, and connectivity.


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Comment by stockpunteron Oct 13, 2022 5:56pm
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RE:read

RE:readthe company is ramping up production of switchblade 600.  tripling capacity from 2000 to 6000 per year.

The existing tank-busting munitions are:
1) the excalibur 155m artillary shell, which is a GPS guided gliding missile.  It has great range but needs a howitzer and crew.  Cost: about $200,000 per round not counting cost of howitzer and training the crew

2) javlin missile which has little associated equipment or crew, but much shorter range (few km), so more dangerous to use.  Cost $150,000.


600 has same warhead as Javlin and minimal personel, but range like the howitzer.

So, any military that is thinking about avoiding getting attacked like Ukraine has been attacked, must be thinking about investing in the best loitering munitions for future deterence. With the smaller S300, only UK was authorized to purchase the item- US gov has some control on these sorts of transactions.

UA will be trying out the first ten SB 600 in the next few weeks in Ukraine. I'll post a link to the videos.



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