Switchblade 300 / 600

The Switchblade family is a pair of tube-launched loitering munitions that fold like a pocketknife into a backpack launcher: the 5.5-pound Switchblade 300 gives an infantry squad a precision anti-personnel strike out to 10 kilometers, while the 50-pound Switchblade 600 carries an anti-armor warhead derived from the Javelin to roughly 90 kilometers with a 40-minute loiter.

Both variants attack by flying directly into the target, transmitting a video feed up to the moment of impact, and offering a wave-off capability if the engagement criteria change. U.S. deliveries of more than a thousand Switchblade 300s to Ukraine in 2022 brought the category mainstream attention, and the system is now a template for the Army's broader Launched Effects and loitering-munition modernization.

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