AeroVironment says Switchblade has not received export approval

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AeroVironment said it has not yet received government approval to sell its Switchblade tactical missile system to foreign nations, but remains "optimistic that we will be able to achieve that sometime in the near future." Speaking to analysts this week, Wahid Nawabi, the company's chief executive, said AeroVironment sees a significant opportunity internationally for the system. "We have been a believer of that in the past; we continue to be a believer in that today," he said. "We are also very aggressively working that with both our international potential interested customers as well as with the U.S. Department of State and other agencies that influence this process."