Switchblade 600 News Today

good morning to you, a sad morning in the news. im jim sciutto. >> a sad morning, one thats become all too familiar, im erica hill. for the third time now in as many days california rocked by mass shootings. in oakland at least one person is dead, seven injured. seven people also dead after a gunman opened fire in half-moon bay, and 11 of course were killed over the weekend in monterey park. police say a 67-year-old man attacked two separate locations in half-moon bay, this morning one...

Drone is first of new wave of lower-cost autonomous weapons the Pentagon is funding through its Replicator programme – an effort to field new systems by August 2025 to help counter Chinese capabilities.

0 february 24. always, the story goes on. look forward to seeing you here monday. stick around. watch the judge on "the five." its going to be a great show. >> neil: all right. there has been a break in the murdaugh trial. it is supposed to resume in the next ten minutes or so. this will give the defense a class to cross examine alec murdaugh who handled himself nicely if you like that sort of thing. questions to the prosecution going over everything, the physical evidence to his financial predi...

What theyve been asking for desperately is long-range drones. this is a switchblade 600 drone, its held up in the department of the army in some sort of foreign military sales pipeline. if they had this they could disrupt the ammunition and so forth behind them. they need the leopard tanks, they need self-propelled artillery, they probably need 300 to 500 main battle tanks. they are talking about maybe getting 100 leopards from these other -- theyre in a really tough position, jim. >> yeah, that...

>> several possibilities here, but for instance this u.s. army model here that is part of the mix that the administration is sending over to ukraine, the howitzers 120 that they moved forward into this area will be key to going after tanks so thats item number one. speaking of tanks, theres a t-72 tank, the eastern european members of nato, those that have these soviet-made tanks, moving them into ukraine, getting theirs replaced by american-made tanks and european made tanks can be used in tank...

1940s, 1942. a major battle, the soviets lost over 277,000 men killed or wounded in that battle. >> general milley is saying ukraine has already received tens of thousands of anti-tank and anti-aircraft wagons from the u.s. and nato countries. we have spoken how effective these stingers and javelins are. what do they need, though? >> thats a good question. they need more of the stingers and javelins, but they also need t-72 tanks. t-72 tanks, same tanks that the russians are using, but they are ...

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...

The latest Switchblade-600s donated by the US have several counterparts made in China, where their effectiveness will be watched with interest.

Killing drones. the administration plans to send ukraine ten so-called, switchblade 600 drones. check these out, but about the under million dollar lethal military aid package. these weapons are essentially portable robotic smart bombs that can destroy heavy armor like tanks and artillery from a distance. the 600 series of these drones carry a stronger payload than these ones theyre looking at, the low cost switchblade 300 drones that are used for pinpoint strikes on enemy personnel. both types ...

They dont have very good air defense capability, particularly against cruise missiles launched by aircraft. they dont have an anti-ship missile capability to try and strike the russian fleet in the sea of azov and the black sea. they dont have enough remotely piloted lethal drones in there. the switchblade 600, another magic bit of technology, could also make a difference. so i think ukraine is doing very well, but, look, there is zero possibility of putin saying to his generals, "okay, back out...