AeroVironment’s Cell Phone-Size Drone is Helping US Military Forces

May 24, 2017

When it comes to military intelligence, tiny is where it’s at.

No one knows this better than AeroVironment Inc. (AV). The Monrovia-based maker of unmanned aircraft systems has produced a variety of small drones that are used extensively by U.S. military forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. But the company’s newly unveiled Snipe Nano Quad has taken “small” to a new level. The unit is about the size of a cell phone, but what it lacks in size it makes up for in a multitude of high-tech features.

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