
The Army plans to buy and field more than a thousand Switchblade 600 loitering munitions over the next year for the Pentagon’s Replicator initiative, a senior service official has said. Gen. James Mingus, the Army’s vice chief of staff, provided an update on quantities for the AeroVironment [AVAV]-built attack drone during a House Appropriations Defense Subcommittee field hearing at the Defense Innovation Unit’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif., on June 21. “That was an innovation that we had worked collectively…