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AeroVironment Readies To Begin Production Of Loitering Munitions At New Facility

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, February 13th, 2025

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AeroVironment Readies To Begin Production Of Loitering Munitions At New Facility

AeroVironment's new FreedomWerx plant in Salt Lake City. Photo: AV

AeroVironment [AVAV] has established a new production facility for its loitering munitions, FreedomWerx, which is located in Salt Lake City, Utah and will begin manufacturing operations in the second half of 2025. The 200,000 square-feet FreedomWerx fits with AV’s approach to distributed production model of geographically dispersed manufacturing facilities to strengthen resiliency versus single-location, gigafactories. Anduril Industries is in the process of establishing a hyperscale manufacturing facility for most of its products at a location in Columbus, Ohio. “By maintaining…

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