AeroVironment has successfully demonstrated its LOCUST laser weapon system aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush during a live-fire test conducted in October 2025.
AeroVironment has introduced the Mayhem 10, a multi-role launched effects system designed for deployment from air, ground, and maritime platforms.
AeroVironment Inc. announced the release of LOCUST X3, the third generation of its high-energy laser weapon system designed to counter unmanned aerial threats.
AeroVironment, Inc. (AV), a global provider of advanced defense and aerospace solutions, announced plans to invest more than $30 million to expand its manufacturing operations in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
AeroVironment, Inc. announced it has received a $186 million delivery order from the U.S. Army for Switchblade 600 Block 2 and Switchblade 300 Block 20 explosively formed penetrator loitering munition systems.
AeroVironment has delivered two Joint Light Tactical Vehicle mounted mobile LOCUST Laser Weapon Systems to the US Army under the second increment of the Army’s Multi-Purpose High Energy Laser prototyping effort.
GDLS has announced the successful demonstration of its Precision Effects & Reconnaissance, Canister-Housed (PERCH) system during the U.S. Army’s Machine Assisted Rugged Sapper event held at Fort Hood, Texas.
AeroVironment has been selected to deliver the U.S. Army’s Next-Generation Counter-Unmanned Aircraft Systems (C-UAS) Missile and has secured a $95.9 million contract for its Long-Range Kinetic Interceptor (LRKI) programme.
AeroVironment, Inc. has announced an expanded partnership with GrandSKY to deploy its Golden Dome for America limited area defence system at Grand Forks Air Force Base (AFB) in North Dakota.
AeroVironment, Inc. has announced three new additions to its Switchblade family of loitering munitions, aimed at expanding operational flexibility and tactical advantage across combat environments.
Soldiers of the 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division, carried out Fort Hood’s first live-fire exercise of the Switchblade 600 loitering munition system on September 15.
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems and AeroVironment (AV) have completed the first-ever air launch of a Switchblade 600 loitering munition from a GA-ASI Block 5 MQ-9A unmanned aircraft system.
