AeroVironment, Inc. is an American defense contractor headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, that designs and manufactures unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Paul B. MacCready Jr., a designer of human-powered aircraft, founded the company in 1971. The company is best known for its lightweight human-powered and solar-powered vehicles. The company is the US military's top supplier of small drones —notably the Raven, Switchblade, Wasp and Puma models.
^"AeroVironment, Inc. 2022 Annual Report (Form 10-K)". U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. 2022-06-29.
deals snapshot: Aerovironment acquires Arcturus UAV for $405m". Retrieved 2021-01-20. Wikimedia Commons has media related to AeroVironment. Official website...
The AeroVironment Switchblade is a miniature loitering munition designed by AeroVironment and used by several branches of the United States military....
The AeroVironment Wasp III Small Unmanned Aircraft System is a miniature UAV developed for United States Air Force special operations to provide a small...
series of solar- and fuel-cell-system-powered unmanned aerial vehicles. AeroVironment, Inc. developed the vehicles under NASA's Environmental Research Aircraft...
VTOL UAV Systems Wikimedia Commons has media related to AeroVironment SkyTote. Aerovironment SkyTote SkyTote to demonstrate high-speed flight with vertical...
The AeroVironment Global Observer is a concept for a high-altitude, long endurance unmanned aerial vehicle, designed by AeroVironment (AV) to operate...
The AeroVironment Nano Hummingbird or Nano Air Vehicle (NAV) is a tiny, remote controlled aircraft built to resemble and fly like a hummingbird, developed...
built by American aeronautical engineer Dr Paul B MacCready's company AeroVironment. On June 12, 1979, it completed a successful crossing of the English...
won the Kremer prize in 1977. Its design was led by Paul MacCready of AeroVironment, Inc. The Kremer Prize had been set up in 1959 by Henry Kremer, a British...
series of solar- and fuel-cell-system-powered unmanned aerial vehicles. AeroVironment, Inc. developed the vehicles under NASA's Environmental Research Aircraft...
Hollywood Film Use (2003) Aero Telemetry H-4 Hercules, Commercial for Hollywood Film Use (2003) AeroVironment FQM-151 Pointer AeroVironment RQ-11 Raven, reconnaissance...
systems acquired and used in combat. In 1999, the US Army bought four AeroVironment Pointer small UAVs for testing in the service's "Military Operations...
1985, the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and AeroVironment used Quetzalcoatlus northropi as the basis for an experimental ornithopter...
cars. The Sunraycer was a joint collaboration between General Motors, AeroVironment, and Hughes Aircraft. The Sunraycer won the first World Solar Challenge...
loitering munitions such as the UJ-25 Skyline or the American-made AeroVironment Switchblade, which is deployed at the platoon level and fits in a backpack...
According to a senior US defense official, it is broadly similar to the AeroVironment Switchblade. The Phoenix Ghost's primary purpose is to deliver an explosive...
a subsidiary of Google's parent Alphabet Inc. On January 3, 2018, AeroVironment announced it would design and develop a solar-powered, high-altitude...
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