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AeroVironment Donating Over 100 Quantix Recon Mapping Drones To Ukraine

By Matthew Beinart

Tuesday, April 19th, 2022

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AeroVironment Donating Over 100 Quantix Recon Mapping Drones To Ukraine

AeroVironment's Quantix Recon UAS. Photo: AeroVironment.

AeroVironment [AVAV] said Tuesday it will donate over 100 of its Quantix Recon unmanned aircraft systems to Ukraine to assist in its ongoing fight against Russia’s invasion of the country. The company said the delivery of the mapping and scouting drones was finalized during a meeting between CEO Wahid Nawabi and the ambassador and the defense attaché at the Embassy of Ukraine last week. “As the Ukraine military’s fight to protect their homeland and defend their nation’s freedom against Russia’s…

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