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To a 60 millimeter mortar, well against trucks or things not heavily armored but not against a tank or armored vehicle. the other variant, the 600 has the same warhead as a javelin does in it. so that can take out a tank and john kirby was suggesting that some of those six hundreds are what are on their way to ukraine. and we were talking with general keith kellogg a couple weeks ago, lamenting the fact looked like we were giving the 300s and not the 600s, but now looks the more powerful version...

Keep that option open going forward. i would rather not get into specifics about each shipment in terms of variant of the switch blade, but we are going to keep talking to them and working, and helping them get additional ones if they need it. now, this is not a system that the ukrainians typically use, so there is going to need to be a little bit of training. it is not a very complex system, it does not require a lot of training. an individual could be suitably trained how to use the switch bla...

Used in that capacity. >> thank you, john. i have two questions on -- >> sandra: all right, you just heard our own jen griffin get some questions in there, the most recent question that she put to him was about the announcement from the pentagon on the $100 million in javelin anti-armor missiles to ukraine, we just had general keane here last hour showing some frustration, along with the ukrainians getting what the ukrainian fighters need when they need it most and the slowness of that happening...

Germany, this giant economic power house which has a great officer corps but no technology, no equipment, no budgets. they just came together and said were going to double the defense budget investment next year. thats good news for nato deterence. >> and to the point, it may sort of put more options on the table for president zelenskyy. just real quickly, general mccaffrey, what do you think the most sort of, the best use of president zelenskyys sort of words are tomorrow in terms of getting th...

It, you could not stop it. our country experienced the same every day right now. >> got a standing ovation from lawmakers and after president biden announced an additional $800 million in assistance for ukraine but not the no-fly zone zelenskyy wants. the weaponry will include switch blade drones that are comma cazy drones that detonate on impact. there is some of what the president said. this could be a long and difficult battle. his unethical attacks on populations. we are united. and well c...

Of which, of course, a lot of the cities of ukraine have been massively damaged. the russians have not yet opened up their full campaign. kyiv is being hit but not by thousands of rounds a day of millimeter and rockets. this is going to get worse before better. i think zelenskyy should be at 100% support out of the administration and is. there are things we can do to further intensify the pressure on the russians. this switch blade 600 is a magic cystism. weve been reluctant to threat russians s...

Capabilities used extensively by the azerbaijanis in the recent war with armenia back in 2020 to great effect against the armenian armor. but instead, what weve seen in this particular conflict with the russians is they havent really used drones at all which surprised us because the russians have been investing heavily in drones. i think what you will see with switch blade is the ukrainians getting a very effective loitering munition capability they can use to great effect against russian armor....

>> jim, i think youve got it exactly right. theyre flexing their muscles, theyre not running out of regular missiles knocked down by air defense. i think that message is being sent as much to nato as to ukraine. this is the first use of hypersonic weapons inside a conflict. russians know we dont have them fully online, china does. i think the message is not that they want to precisely attack specific targets but theyre sending a clear message to nato and in general in the united states in partic...

Administration a list of requests. that list includes equipment like armed drones, anti-ship missiles, off-the-shelf electronic jamming equipment and surface-to-air missiles, but also more of what the united states has already been providing, more of those stinger anti-aircraft missiles, more javelin anti-tank weapons. nbcs intelligence ken delaney is behind this reporting and were joined by jason beardsly, national executive director of the association of the u.s. navy. ken, you laid out that l...

Situations. this is the kind of weaponry they have been asking for, not everything they have been asking for. how much of a difference will it make? >> candidly i think it will make little difference. the switch blade is basically a hand grenade, a weapon about that big with wings on it. what will make a difference is at 4 weapons theyre bringing in significant numbers. theyre like javelins but for short range and city fighting. only good for about 300 meters, but they will stop a tank inside a ...