AM product profile
AM, also described as AM-FPV, is PDW small tactical FPV drone platform. It is designed for maneuverable, packable operations in complex and contested environments where operators need speed, situational awareness and payload flexibility.
Facts
- Company: PDW
- Product type: UAV
- Status: commercial
- Capability focus: Generalist
- Website: https://www.pdw.ai/products/am-defense
Profile sections
- Summary
- Overview
- Market context
- Audience
- Workflow
- Capability
- Deployment environment
- Positioning tags
- Specifications
- Tags
- Timeline / Research
- Operations Claims / Customers and deployments
- Comparable Systems
- Sources
Summary
AM, also described as AM-FPV, is PDW small tactical FPV drone platform. It is designed for maneuverable, packable operations in complex and contested environments where operators need speed, situational awareness and payload flexibility.
Overview
AM, also described as AM-FPV, is PDW small tactical FPV drone platform. It is designed for maneuverable, packable operations in complex and contested environments where operators need speed, situational awareness and payload flexibility.
Market context
PDW AM is an attritable multirotor defence platform with swappable configurations and a universal payload interface for strike and mission sets.
- Target environment: Defence operational environments including tactical field sites and contested areas.
- Workflow context: Tactical ISR, strike missions and defence operations using modular multirotor UAVs.
- Customer context: Defence customers requiring attritable multirotor platforms.
- Deployment model: Deployed defence product with active procurement.
- Commercial maturity: Active defence UAV platform with production and field use.
- Adoption constraints: Defence procurement cycles and mission-specific payload integration.
- Market position: PDW attritable multirotor platform for defence use.
- Adjacent products: C100, Black Widow, tactical UAVs
Workflow
Tactical ISR, strike missions and defence operations using modular multirotor UAVs.
Deployment environment
Defence operational environments including tactical field sites and contested areas.
Positioning tags
- Audience: Defense
- Workflow: Tactical ISR, strike missions and defence operations using modular multirotor UAVs.
- Capability: generalist
- Deployment environment: Defence operational environments including tactical field sites and contested areas.
Specifications
- Form Factor: Swappable 12.7, 17.8 and 25.4 cm / 5, 7 and 10 inch configurations
- Range: 20+ km point to point; 30+ km with C100 C2 relay
- Payload Options: Universal electromechanical payload interface
- Camera System: Sony 1/2.8 inch CMOS analog camera with 114° HFOV
- Deployment Time: Field ready in 120 seconds
- Task Scope: Tactical FPV strike, ISR, and contested-environment operations
- Operational Role: Attritable FPV multirotor platform for precision strike and rapid fielding
- Payload Capacity Kg: AM-5: 1.3 kg; AM-7: 1.8 kg; AM-10: 2.2 kg
- Flight Time: AM-5: 23 min slick / 11 min with 1.3 kg payload; AM-7: 32 min slick / 12 min with 1.8 kg payload; AM-10: 35 min slick / 18 min with 2.2 kg payload
Tags
- Peer Group: Tactical ISR UAV
- Workflow: Drone ISR
- Capability: Remote operation
- Deployment Environment: Defence operational environment
- Stack Layer: Finished robot platform
- Commercial Stage: Commercial product
- Market Signal: Defence procurement signal
Timeline / Research
- 2026-06-04 - Acquisition - PDW agrees to acquire Vanteon to expand communications engineering capacity - PDW said it entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Vanteon Corporation, a Rochester, NY-based electronics…
- 2026-03-24 - Production Milestone - PDW moves its Attritable Multirotor strike drone into production - PDW said its Attritable Multirotor strike drone had reached a standardized, supportable configuration and was ready…
Operations Claims / Customers and deployments
- Production Start Status - Attritable Multirotor in production - 2026-03-24 - Attritable Multirotor production program - strike-drone production - PDW moved its Attritable Multirotor strike drone into production and said…
- Factory Area Sqft - 90,000 sq ft manufacturing facility - 2025-08-20 - Drone Factory 01 - tactical drone manufacturing - PDW opened Drone Factory 01, a 90,000 sq ft Huntsville manufacturing facility to scale tactical dr…
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