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Army

Army Plans To Field More Than 1,000 Switchblade 600 Attack Drones For Replicator

By Matthew Beinart

Monday, June 24th, 2024

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Army Plans To Field More Than 1,000 Switchblade 600 Attack Drones For Replicator

Switchblade 600. Photo: AeroVironment.

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…

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