On July 8, the Australian Department of Defense announced the purchase of the Switchblade 300 kamikaze drone system from American company AeroVironment as part of the Albanese government’s commitment to… Continue reading "Australia Orders Switchblade 300 Loitering Munitions From AeroVironment"
Russian media outlets announced on 18 September, that Android Technics, a Russian technology company, had developed an analogue of AeroVironment’s Switchblade 300 loitering munition. Imagery and footage of the BAS-80… Continue reading "Russia Tests Switchblade Clone"
The Lithuanian Ministry of Defense has signed a contract with the US government to purchase Switchblade 600 kamikaze drones. As a result, Lithuania became the second country after the United… Continue reading "Lithuania Purchases an Unknown Number of Switchblade 600 Drones From the US"
AeroVironment, manufacturers of the Switchblade loitering munitions and Puma UAS being sent to Ukraine by the US are also independently sending some small reconnaissance drones. The company have donated more… Continue reading "AeroVironment, Maker of Switchblade, Donates Drones to Ukraine"
US unmanned aerial systems (UAS) firm AeroVironment have been awarded two recent contracts for their Switchblade and Puma UAS platforms. Last week, the US Army agreed a deal for the… Continue reading "AeroVironment Flying High With Switchblade and Puma"
On July 15, the Australian Department of Defence announced that the long-running LAND 129 Phase 4B or DEF 129 programme, which was launched to replace the Wasp III SUAS used… Continue reading "Australia Expands Its Unmanned Aerial Systems Capabilites With Vector/Scorpion And Corvo X"
The United States State Department has approved the sales of loitering munitions to Taiwan worth up to $360.2 million, with the sales potentially seeing just over a thousand loitering munitions… Continue reading "U.S. State Department Approves Loitering Munition Sales To Taiwan"
Earlier this month, at SOF Week, Teledyne FLIR Defense, best known for thier thermal imaging systems, unveiled the Rogue 1 Loitering Munition System. The official presentation of the small UAS… Continue reading "Teledyne FLIR Rogue 1 Loitering Munitions Unveiled"
This week, the United States delivered an additional shipment of Javelin anti-tank guided missiles (ATGM) valued at approximately $16.6 million to Lithuania, one of its main allies in the Baltic… Continue reading "Lithuania Receives Additional Javelin Anti-Tank Missiles From The United States"
The US Defense Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) has announced that the US State Department has approved a foreign military sale of AIM-120C-8 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missiles and related equipment to… Continue reading "Lithuania To Procure AIM-120 AMRAAM Missiles From the US For NASAMS Air Defense Systems"