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The Chinese-government-backed Global Times newspaper describes China’s new FH-901 suicide drone as its “answer” to the U.S. Switchblade drone.

Supports everything involved in our combat operation. to take a u.s. weapon system, send it over to ukraine, even if we train them like we do with some of our artillery pieces in poland, it is not the same. there is not a logistical trail of parts, supplies, maintenance, ammunition, that are all tracking and supporting the units in the same way that we do with the u.s. military. this is ultimately what makes the u.s. military superior. similarly, a lot of the systems are more complicated. withou...

Continuing to reinforce those groups. separately, the ukrainians are building combat power. a lot of that u.s. military equipment, the m-777, switchblade drones, its making its way to the eastern front at the donbas. id like to talk about the bigger picture and how we think this might end or what it could look like when it ends. this is two months ago, talking about what is putins big plan? historically, this was russian area. they call it novorossiya. they want to control this. we hear the russ...

Weapons from london and washington made it to here in the eastern part of the country. the switchblade drones and how itsers and seen a shift in the the battle and places that the russians withdrawn from several weeks ago but the real story today is mariupol. that city thats been besieged by the russians for months now it looks as though -- well, we dont know exactly but looks like the final fighters came out of the steel plant. there are as many as 1,000. in what looks like a negotiated settlem...

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These drones support the tactics that the Ukrainians have effectively used to exact a heavy toll on incoming Russian forces.

John was showing the map a minute ago, the donbas is much more open than what weve seen before so perhaps were talking about something that moves more toward the turkish made drone which has a higher speed, a longer distance and carry multiple different weapons and maybe thats what were talking about here. something that can be used in that more open ground to get over bigger distances, lighter a little longer and strike harder. right now, though, it really is a mystery exactly what the phoenix ...

Of this visit, as well, is that you know the ukrainians state has survived. >> yeah. and when we hear president zelenskyy say, you know, um, hope they dont come empty handed. with just cakes. i mean, what is it he is expecting here? we have heard the united states in the last few weeks announce $800 million or so of support. i mean, two packages in less than a few weeks. so, what is he expecting? >> well, theres obviously theres you know, there are still critical needs for switchblade drones, fo...

Bodies. adding theres evidence that russian forces were dumping bodies there in bulk, literally by the truckload every day for weeks. in a statement, its been a horror story of violations perpetrated against civilians and international humanitarian law has not been ignored but seemingly tossed aside. the united states continues to do what it can to answer ukraines massive need for arms, sending almost $3.4 billion in aid to ukraine since the start of the war on february 24th. the first rounds of...

To talk to you about some of what the new aid includes, right, that these, there are phoenix ghost drone systems that were made by the air force specifically for ukraine. the pentagon spokesperson john kirby says they are similar to switchblade drones but wouldnt elaborate on the differences. how could they use tools like this and do you know the difference? differences? >> well the most important thing you can do with these is either take out the artillery or more importantly the command post t...