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CONFLICT PROVEN
FRONTLINE READY
AEVEX designs and delivers autonomous precision strike systems to dominate the modern battlespace. Proven in conflict and frontline ready, AEVEX engineers to need, delivers at speed, and enables the United States and its allies to thrive in contested and denied environments. AEVEX. Faster. Farther, Forward.
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A full-page advertisement for AEVEX ran in the Friday, April 17, 2026, edition of The Wall Street Journal. I am talking about the hardcopy version of the paper that was delivered onto my front walkway sometime in the early morning hours.
I wanted to find a copy of that advertisement, and to paste it into this blog posting, but I couldn't find it online. The picture I have provided, from the AEVEX website, is only a pale imitation of the picture used in the ad, but you can probably get the idea. Basically, AEVEX builds and deploys drone killers, with a big, omnivorous "eye" at the front, the better to track you down and kill you (if you are chosen as a target).
The text, above, at the very top of this blog posting, is the actual text from the advertiserment I am writing about. As you can see, AEVEX says its drones are "frontline ready," which means ready to kill you (if you are chosen as a target). The advertisement assumes that the reader will identify with whoever is deploying the killer drones that AEVEX builds, those "autonomous precision strike systems," as the company calls them. Funny, though, I found myself identifying with the persons whom AEVEX promises will be tracked down and killed, and did not feel very much aligned with those doing the killing. Investors, though, may not see things the way I do, at least according to an article in the April 18-19, 2026, edition of The Wall Street Journal. According to the news story I have just linked, AEVEX stock "took off," and rose 35% in it debut on the New York Stock Exchange, that debut occurring on the same day that AEVEX ran its full-page ad.
I was an antiwar activist at the time of the War In Vietnam, and I personally refused induction into the armed forces. My antiwar sentiments have not diminished. They have grown. Whole cities are being turned into rubble - homes, schools, and hospitals gone. Our current president is quoted as promising to extinguish an "entire civilization."
Bob Dylan's song, "Masters of War," pretty much sums up my position on companies like AEVEX. Click the link for the lyrics. Dylan's song is a pretty robust rejection of the idea that we should be celebrating the corporations that are building the latest edition of our death machines, and here's my thought. Along with global warming, income inequality, massive environmental pollution, and species extermination, let's get rid of nuclear weapons and remote control death-dealing machines, too.
I know. I know. That's a pretty tall order, but to refer to Bob Dylan one more time: "I believe in the impossible; you know that I do."
When "the impossible" becomes "the necessary," it's time to make it happen!
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