U.S. Army Awards AeroVironment Contracts Totaling $47 Million for RQ-11B Raven and RQ-20A Puma AE Unmanned Aircraft Systems Sustainment
- Raven and Puma continue to support soldiers with critical situational awareness anywhere, anytime
- Sustainment of Raven and Puma fleets ensures operational readiness
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The AeroVironment Raven, the most widely used UAS in the world today, is a lightweight solution designed for rapid deployment and high mobility for military applications requiring low-altitude surveillance and reconnaissance intelligence. The AeroVironment Puma AE is a small UAS designed for land-based and maritime operations. Capable of landing in salt water or on the ground, the Puma AE empowers the operator with a level of operational flexibility never before available in the small UAS class.
"Sustaining the Army's large fleet of Raven and Puma AE systems ensures
that soldiers continue to have the most effective, reliable and
adaptable small UAS available to support them wherever and whenever
required," said
About AeroVironment Small UAS
RQ-11B
Raven®, RQ-12
Wasp®AE, RQ-20A
Puma™AE and Shrike
VTOL™ comprise AeroVironment's Family of Small Unmanned Aircraft
Systems. Operating with a common ground control system (GCS), this
Family of Systems provides increased capability to the warfighter that
can give ground commanders the option of selecting the appropriate
aircraft based on the type of mission to be performed. This increased
capability has the potential to provide significant force protection and
force multiplication benefits to small tactical units and security
personnel.
The Puma AE small UAS comprises one component of AeroVironment's advanced, turnkey data collection, processing and delivery solution employed to provide commercial customers with engineering-quality information, on-demand, across multiple industries such as oil & gas, agriculture, mining and others. The Qube® small UAS is tailored to law enforcement, first response and other public safety missions. Small enough to fit easily in the trunk of a car, the Qube system can be unpacked, assembled and ready for flight in less than five minutes, giving the operator a rapidly deployable eye in the sky at a fraction of the cost of manned aircraft and large unmanned aircraft.
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