Switchblade 300 News Today

Defense contractor AeroVironment was awarded a U.S. Marine Corps contract for the Switchblade 300 Block 20 loitering munitions drone

Zala Aero’s new loitering munition model has been designed for tactical engagements and features an X-wing design.

There must be nothing scarier for a soldier than to know a drone is not only watching from above, but it’s also capable of following and chasing it...

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600. we have seen this before. we have seen the switchblade 300 version and yesterday we started showing the switchblade 600. this is a ckamikaze drone. it goes after the targets and hits them directly and hits them on impact. it has encrypted communications and gps. so it can do these things in a secure way. and it can also avoid hitting targets that are no-go targets, targets of civilians for example. it has a wave off capability. so it can do all of these kinds of things in a way that other s...

Central intelligence agency to conduct a covert operation to deal with that. all these things that im suggesting, they all have risks to associated with them and youve got to examine that risk in terms of what is the payoff. is there risk acceptable to us? in my judgment, pulling out all the stops to help the ukrainians defend themselves should be the mission. i know we are triumphant about this sanctions. we feel good about strengthening nato. we are beating our chest at the state of the union ...

Small, slow, disposable. the switchblade 300, for example, weighs less than 6 pounds and can be carried in a backpack. it will cruise about 60 miles an hour for 15 minutes while on board cameras and gps hunt for nearby enemy assets. once the target is spotted and the command is given, the drone can sprint up to 600 miles an hour, dive and explode on impact, but as the battle has raged, military analysts say the ukrainians who have such drones, too, have turned the tables on russians using them t...