AeroVironment lifted the curtain on the Switchblade 400 at the Association of the U.S. Army’s annual meeting, presenting a “lightweight tank destroyer” that pairs a sub-40-pound all-up round with a 65 km engagement envelope and 35 minutes of endurance. Company materials describe a rocket-launched, tube-packaged munition that a single operator can set up in under five minutes, then hand off across the network if needed to extend useful distance. The 400 adds a gyrostabilized EO and IR sensor suite with aided target recognition, day identification at 5.5 km and night identification at 1.4 km, plus a MOSA-based open compute environment intended for rapid upgrades and easy interoperability with soldier systems like Nett Warrior and ATAK via the TA5 controller. Read more.
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| The Switchblade 400 follows a MOSA approach with an open computing environment and model-based engineering, to ease integration of common subsystems, shorten upgrade cycles, and support interoperability within already fielded ecosystem (Picture source: Army Recognition) |
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