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10/27/2011:
AeroVironment Introduces the Qube Small Unmanned Aircraft System for
Public Safety Professionals; Announces Test and Evaluation Program
09/01/2011:
U.S. Army Awards AeroVironment $4.9 Million Contract for Switchblade
Agile Munition Systems and Services
08/30/2011:
AeroVironment Introduces Shrike Vertical Take-off And Landing (VTOL)
Unmanned Aircraft System
08/16/2011:
AeroVironment Receives $65 Million Order for Digital Puma Unmanned
Aircraft Systems
07/01/2011:
Report: FBI Warns Of Al-Qaida Threats Against Monrovia Aircraft Execs
06/29/2011: Burundi,
Uganda to receive Raven B SUAS
04/01/2011:
AeroVironment Global Observer Experiences Mishap During Extended
Duration Flight Testing
02/28/2011:
Ultra Electronics Provides JALN-TCS Communications Payload on Global
Observer
02/17/2011:
AeroVironment Develops World’s First Fully Operational Life-Size
Hummingbird-Like Unmanned Aircraft for DARPA
01/31/2011:
AeroVironment Receives $7.8 Million Order for Raven UAS Digital Module
Upgrade Kits
01/11/2011:
Global Observer, AeroVironment’s Extreme Endurance Unmanned Aircraft
System, Achieves Historic First Hydrogen-Powered Flight
10/25/2010:
AV’s Global Observer Stratospheric Unmanned Aircraft System Completes
Initial Flight Testing
08/14/2010:
AeroVironment’s Stratospheric Global Observer Unmanned Aircraft System
Makes First Flight
08/11/2010:
Global Observer Unmanned Aircraft System Successfully Completes Wing
Load Tests
05/25/2010:
AeroVironment’s Global Observer Unmanned Aircraft System Completes Key
Ground Tests
03/04/2010:
Aerovironment receives $1.18m contract for Phase III "Anubis stealth
assassin robo-missile"
01/28/2010:
Retired Marine Lt. Col. Oliver North flies Raven at Redstone Arsenal
12/28/2009:
Dutch Defense starts using Ravens for civil defense missions in the province of North Brabant, Netherlands
(English) (Dutch1)
(Dutch2)
(Dutch3)
11/01/2009:
Army to Expand Raven Family of Unmanned Aircraft, to include Wasp and
Puma AE
10/05/2009:
Smiths Detection, AeroVironment and US Army Collaborate on Chemical
Agent-Detecting UAV
10/02/2009:
Czech military to buy two Raven B Systems for Afghanistan
09/01/2009:
AeroVironment's Raven Receives Military Aircraft Type-Certification from
The Netherlands Ministry of Defense (English)
(Dutch)
08/06/2009:
Australia trials Wasp III ahead of new SUAS fleet buy
06/03/2009:
AeroVironment Receives Order for Third Global Observer Aircraft under
JCTD Program
04/20/2009:
Puma AE hydrogen fuel cell development continues with $3.3M US DoD contract to
Protonex, leading to 6+ hour endurance (Defense News)
04/01/2009:
AeroVironment's Raven Achieves 30-Hour Persistent Surveillance in Demonstration with US Army
03/18/2009:
AeroVironment Puma AE enters development for fuel cell power greatly extending endurance, continuing prior Puma fuel cell work
03/16/2009:
AeroVironment Demonstrates Switchblade Lethal UAV
02/27/2009:
US
Government sells Ravens to Lebanon Air Force
01/20/2009:
Rockwell Collins navigation system selected for AeroVironment’s Global Observer Unmanned Aircraft System
12/15/2008:
AeroVironment's Raven Receives Military Aircraft Type-Classification Certificate from the Italian Ministry of Defense
11/03/2008:
Aerovironment awarded $5.8M contract for Raven RQ-11B digital data link
10/30/2008:
Chilean, U.S. Air Forces share perimeter defense methods (Raven featured)
10/10/2008:
Mini unmanned vehicle
(Raven B) demonstrates capabilities for MAWTS-1 Marines
09/15/2008:
Perch and Stare: U.S. Agency Pushes Tiny UAVs Toward New Abilities (Defense News)
09/08/2008:
Ultra
Electronics reveals new details on Global Observer HALE UAV JCTD
08/25/2008:
Raven UAV guards military
convoys in Iraq (www.pentagonchannel.mil video)
07/02/2008:
AeroVironment Awarded
$200M USSOCOM All Environment Capable Variant (AECV) Small UAS Contract,
with "Puma AE"
05/30/2008:
Netherlands
Ministry of Defence Selects AeroVironment's Raven Small UAS (English)
(Dutch)
05/27/2008:
DARPA Awards AeroVironment Phase II Contract for Nano Air Vehicle Development
01/14/2008:
Spanish
Army buys Raven Systems (English) (Spanish)
01/03/2008:
USAF Approves BATMAV System with AeroVironment's Wasp III Micro Air Vehicle for Full Rate Production
01/02/2008:
US
Forces RQ-11 Raven fleet will surpass 450,000 combat flight hours by the
end of 2008, says Col Robert Quackenbush, Deputy Director for US Army Aviation
11/20/2007:
United States Marine Corps Awards AeroVironment $19.3 Million BATMAV Contract for Wasp III Micro Unmanned Aircraft Systems
10/11/2007:
U.S. Air Force adopts Raven B for FPASS program,
replacing Lockheed Martin Desert Hawk
09/26/2007:
AeroVironment Awarded
$57 Million - $108 Million Contract for Development of Global Observer Stratospheric Unmanned Aircraft System
09/11/2007:
Danish Army Chooses Raven B Small UAS
(English)
(Danish)
08/09/2007:
Singapore
reveals jungle trials using AV's Wasp micro unmanned air vehicles
02/08/2007:
Aqua
Puma completes sea trials on the Royal Australian Navy's HMAS Armidale
in the Timor Sea
10/31/2006:
AV's
Raven UAV flies legally in busy downtown Brisbane's controlled airspace
during Australia's Land Warfare Conference
10/09/2006:
Raven UAVs on Loan To British Army in Iraq
02/18/2006:
Aerovironment Wins $9.79 Million Contract (USMC Dragon Eye)
10/17/2005:
AeroVironment's
RQ-11 Raven wins half-billion dollar US Army SUAV Contract
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