AeroVironment officials yesterday unveiled the company’s new next-generation loitering missile, including a new system with extended endurance and multipurpose, anti-armor munition capabilities. The Switchblade 600 loitering missile is a man-portable solution that provides precision strike capabilities via an anti-armor warhead for aerial, ground and maritime missions. The system has an endurance of 40 minutes and has demonstrated a 40 km target standoff range. It "provides the ability to prosecute non-line-of-sight targets with precision lethal effects at a greater stand-off distance,...
