Deployment
AeroVironment Switchblade (300/600) at Kyiv
Tube-launched loitering munitions: the Switchblade 300 (anti-personnel) and Switchblade 600 (anti-armor). Mass-produced and supplied to the US Army under a nearly $1B IDIQ and sent to Ukraine. The US Army program of record is LMAMS (Lethal Miniature Aerial Missile System).
AeroVironment Switchblade (300/600) by AeroVironment · Operated by AeroVironment · Catalog entry · 2 sources · not yet field-verified · Drones
Recent coverage
- Pentagon awards 500M contract for counter-drone tech to AeroVironmentAgentRecon · 2026-07-02
- Army Awards AeroVironment 500M Counter-Drone ContractAgentRecon · 2026-07-02
- New Pentagon unmanned czar will oversee most drone programsAgentRecon · 2026-07-01
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /deployments/aerovironment-switchblade-ukraine.md
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- REST API: /v1/robots/60ddf99a-f36c-4598-a044-6915e61eb8a9
- Data documentation: /data
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Footage
AeroVironment's product film for the Switchblade 600 loitering munition. A man-in-the-loop, operator-initiated weapon (a 'kamikaze drone'), not an autonomous system.
AeroVironment Switchblade 300 loitering munition deployed by Ukrainian Armed Forces. Aggregate defense deployment; widely reported in open sources.
Key facts
- Fleet
- AeroVironment Switchblade 300/600
- Operator
- Ukrainian Armed Forces
- Use Case
- Loitering munition defense deployment
- Technology
- Aerial loitering munition
Safety record
No incidents on record for AeroVironment Switchblade (300/600) at Kyiv.
Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.
- Trust tier
- Catalog entry · 2 sources · not yet field-verifiedhow tiers work →
- Last updated
- 2026-06-28
- Company
- AeroVironment
- Location
- Ukraine (combat zones)/Kyiv
- Operator
- AeroVironment
- Status
- operational
- Operator type
- maker operated
- ID
60ddf99a-f36c-4598-a044-6915e61eb8a9
Timeline
- Jun 2026created
- Jun 2026Current status: operational, reviewedLatest recorded state. New status transitions append here as the deployment-status recorder produces them.
On the deployment map
AeroVironment Switchblade (300/600) operates in Kyiv. Explore the full verified map:
Sources (2)
Methodology: Verified · 2 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-06-28
Verification posture
Verified
Low confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-06-28
Maturity + lifecycle
Maturity stage: production
Lifecycle: active
Architectural position
Cohort: aerial
Sources by quality tier
- 1
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
- 1
- knowledge-base
- Knowledge base
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for AeroVironment Switchblade (300/600) at Kyiv.Common questions
- What is the AeroVironment Switchblade (300/600) deployment at Kyiv?
- AeroVironment Switchblade (300/600), built by AeroVironment, is recorded as a deployment at Kyiv on the DEPLOY registry. AeroVironment operates the deployment directly.
- Who operates AeroVironment Switchblade (300/600) at Kyiv?
- AeroVironment, the manufacturer of AeroVironment Switchblade (300/600), operates this deployment directly. This is a maker-deploys-its-own-product arrangement rather than a customer pilot.
- Have there been incidents at the AeroVironment Switchblade (300/600) deployment at Kyiv?
- No active incidents affecting this deployment are recorded on the DEPLOY registry. Absence of recorded incidents is not a guarantee no incident occurred; DEPLOY records only sourced incidents and suppresses retracted ones.
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