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Army Confirms AEVEX, Anduril, RTX Selected For Launched Effects Short Range Demo

By Matthew Beinart

Friday, March 28th, 2025

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Army Confirms AEVEX, Anduril, RTX Selected For Launched Effects Short Range Demo

RTX’s Raytheon launches new Coyote variant, Coyote LE SR, from helicopter. Photo: RTX.

The Army has confirmed the three systems selected for its Launched Effects-Short Range (LE-SR) special user demonstration are AEVEX Aerospace’s Atlas, Anduril Industries’ Altius 600 and RTX’s [RTX] Coyote. The additional specifics on participants follows an Army official’s announcement earlier in the week that three vendors had been picked for the effort to inform future LE-SR procurement and fielding priorities. “The LE-SR user demonstration is an important step forward in developing launched effects capabilities,” Brig. Gen. David Phillips, the Army’s…

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