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AeroVironment Switchblade

AeroVironment Switchblade loitering munition

Loitering munitionUnmanned Systems

  • Soldier carrying a Switchblade 600 launch tube across desert ground
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    Precision Strike

    Switchblade 300 Block 20 delivers rapid beyond-line-of-sight precision strikes against personnel, light vehicles and armored threats, with fragmentation or explosively formed penetrator warheads.

  • Switchblade 600 launching from its tube on open ground at dawn
    02

    Anti-Armor

    Switchblade 600 carries an anti-armor warhead for engaging hardened static and moving vehicles at standoff distances of 40 km and more.

  • Switchblade 600 in flight with wings deployed over desert mountains
    03

    RSTA and Targeting

    High-resolution EO/IR sensors feed real-time video to the operator for target identification and geolocation, and AV says the long loiter time reduces the need for external ISR assets.

  • Soldier setting up a Switchblade 300 launch tube in a field position
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    Rapid Deployment

    Both systems launch from a tube. Switchblade 300 is backpackable, and Switchblade 600 sets up in typically under 10 minutes from ground positions, vehicles or aerial platforms.

Details

  • Class

    Loitering munition
  • Variants

    300 / 600
  • Range

    300 Block 20: 30 km w/ extended range antenna; 600: 40+ km, 90+ km w/ forward pass
  • Endurance

    300 Block 20: 20+ mins; 600: 40+ mins
  • Speed

    300 Block 20: 101 km/h loiter, 161 km/h sprint; 600: 113 km/h loiter, 185 km/h sprint
  • All-up round

    300 Block 20: 3.27 kg (7.2 lb); 600: 29.5 kg (65 lb)
  • Munition weight

    300 Block 20: 1.68 kg (3.7 lb); 600: 15 kg (33 lbs)
  • Sensors

    High-resolution EO/IR
  • Manufacturer

    AeroVironment
  • Category

    Unmanned Systems
  • Status

    Fielded
  • Missions

Gallery

  • Two soldiers preparing Switchblade 300 tubes for launch in a jungle clearing

Video

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