AeroVironment

By Michael Bruno
Investors were widely disappointed with UAV pioneer AeroVironment's financial results for the fiscal second quarter.
Advanced Air Mobility

By Robert Wall
AeroVironment should secure deals for its P550 vertical-takeoff-and-landing uncrewed system from abroad within the next six months, CEO Wahid Nawabi says.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Matthew Fulco
Taiwan's Thunder Tiger plans to participate in the U.S. Army’s Drone Dominance program.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Robert Wall
AeroVironment’s CEO is optimistic about the company's business, saying it could "easily double" in the next 3-5 years, he said in a investor presentation.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Steve Trimble
Two companies have unveiled starkly different approaches to meeting the U.S. Army’s pending requirement for a Low-Altitude Stalk and Strike Ordnance system.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Robert Wall
AeroVironment is expanding its loitering munition product line, while also unveiling a new version of its Vapor drone.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Robert Wall
AeroVironment is looking to parlay its work on counter-uncrewed air system (C-UAS) laser weapons to go after anticipated business to combat higher-end threats.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Matthew Fulco
U.S. drone manufacturer AeroVironment has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Taiwan’s National Chung-Shan Institute of Science and Technology.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
Most small UAS are battery powered and limited in flight time—but what about using aerodynamics to boost flight time by soaring the way birds and gliders do?
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Robert Wall
AeroVironment says the company's Switchblade 600 loitering munition system completed the first launch from a General Atomics MQ-9A Reaper uncrewed air system.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Steve Trimble
AeroVironment will compete for orders from the U.S. Army’s Long Range Reconnaissance (LRR) program against Redwire subsidiary Edge Autonomy.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
AeroVironment Inc. (AV), co-developer of NASA’s pioneering Ingenuity Mars helicopter, has fostered a next-generation Mars helicopter concept called Skyfall.
Space Exploration

By Graham Warwick
AeroVironment’s Wildcat has transitioned to wing-borne forward flight under a DARPA program.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Garrett Reim
AeroVironment has unveiled the Red Dragon, a second-generation loitering munition with a more than 400 km (249 mi.) one-way range.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Michael Bruno
Some observers think the coming years could see more industry fragmentation and the rise of up-and-coming middle-market players.
Manufacturing & Supply Chain

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Steve Trimble
In combination, the ACT and ORIENT programs are addressing underlying challenges with operating thousands of autonomous systems across all domains.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Brian Everstine
The use of high-end air defenses and other munitions in the Middle East and the supplying of Ukraine are affecting the U.S. military readiness in the Pacific.
Budget, Policy & Operations

By Matthew Fulco
Drone manufacturer AeroVironment will purchase defense tech company BlueHalo in an all-stock deal valued at $4.1 billion.
Supply Chain

By Graham Warwick
Next steps for wake surfing; measuring e-SAF emissions; solar stratospheric UAS upgrade; and uncrewed medical eVTOL.
Emerging Technologies

By Graham Warwick
The Horus A is intended for government applications such as surveillance, communications relay, backing up GPS and even space domain awareness.
Emerging Technologies

By Brian Everstine
The U.S. Air Force has proposed a high-altitude balloon program as an option for the broader Replicator initiative to accelerate new autonomous systems.
Sensors & Electronic Warfare

By Chen Chuanren
The U.S. State Department approved Taiwan to acquire more than 1,000 loitering munitions from both AeroVironment and Anduril.
Missile Defense & Weapons

By Graham Warwick
The Pentagon’s advanced research agency has selected six teams to develop preliminary designs for a shipborne VTOL uncrewed aircraft.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Graham Warwick
DARPA has selected six of nine concepts studied under Phase 1A of the Ancillary program to proceed into the 10-month Phase 1B.
Aircraft & Propulsion