Tactical Missile System – Solution for Complex Combat Envrionments

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Man-portable and lightweight, Switchblade is a uniquely powerful LMAMS (Lethal Miniature Aerial Missile System) solution for today’s complex combat environments.  It is designed to provide the warfighter with a back-packable, non-line-of-sight precision strike solution with minimal collateral effects. It can rapidly provide a powerful, but expendable miniature flying intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) package on a beyond line-of-sight (BLOS) target within minutes.

This remotely-piloted or autonomous platform can either glide or propel itself via quiet electric propulsion, providing real-time GPS coordinates and video for information gathering, targeting, or feature/object recognition. The vehicle’s small size and quiet motor make it difficult to detect, recognize and track even at very close range.

The Switchblade is fully scalable and can be launched from a variety of air and ground platforms, according to Aerovironment website. Switchblade is operated from AeroVironment’s battle proven ground control system (GCS) with a communications range of greater than 10 km.

AeroVironment recently received contract awards from the US Army for procurement of the Switchable system and Contractor Logistics Support (CLS) that bring the total value of Switchblade awards to $111,054,202 since August 2017.

Deployed by United States forces for more than five years, the system provides warfighters with rapid-response force protection and precision strike capabilities up to 10 kilometers from its launch location.  Its high precision, combined with specialized effects means Switchblade can minimize or even eliminate collateral damage.

Orbital ATK provides single purpose and multimode warheads for the Switchblade program.