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Calculus. you understand military tactics. next thing you know you are pushing up daisies. >> we are talking about switchblade drones that can travel 25 miles and hover, pick a couple and drop. i hope we are sending more. i dont love situation we are doing in he particular way. maybe its a way to prevent escalation. but we have already seen -- as we send more weapons putin has made it clear hes going to bomb further west. then get the weaponry to the ukrainians to do this fighting. you cant unde...

Nbcs ken de lane yan got a demonstration back in december. >> reporter: amid the quiet beauty of the utah desert, a deadly new kind of weapon on display. nbc news got an exclusive look at a so-called killer drone. it doesnt fire a missile. it is the missile. >> this is about the size of a toy drone i bought my 12-year-old a few years ago. >> reporter: the switchblade can be carried into bat until a backpack and launched miles away from a threat. wauns target is identified the switchblade can fin...

>> reporter: so were hearing from ukrainian troops, but im also hearing from u.s. military officials, that the russian offensive has been poorly coordinated. it seems to be -- theres very little communication between the national guard and the regular russian army troops. theyre not coordinating well with air cover. sometimes russian troops have been sent into small engagement battles, russian armored personnel carriers and tanks, without air cover and theyve been quickly eliminated by the ukrai...

You launch a weapon at them. the swiss blade drone is very different. its called a switchblade because it comes from something like a mortar tube and the wings blow up and the operator flies it to the target and instead of shooting the missile from the drone and having the drone return to a base, it literally dives in because it has the warhead in the drone itself and hits the target. the operator can watch it go all the way to the target and in fact, if something happens where they see a child ...

Decimated. >> ken, yeah, let me ask you that question. i bet everyone watching right now is going, why arent we supplying more of these. >> well, you know, i had a conversation with a hill staffer about a u.s. system called the switchblade, which is a kamikaze drone that the u.s. military fields but it is not approved for export anywhere except the united kingdom. there is a concern about sharing this technology, but this is not -- this is pretty old technology, like ten years old. the russians ...

Theyre misunderstanding the ukrainian peel and leferl of defiance i think their capable of and i dont think it is going to end well for them. >> do you think ukrainian people win at the end of the day? >> i sure hope so lawrence. i wish between 2014 and now ukraine had become a part of nato an european happening and a lot of things -- the people in the white house certainly could have handled this better back in the fall. right now, were sort of limited in our choice of options. lawrence: all ri...

It may be an issue of -- >> i want to point out a couple of -- >> weve got -- yeah, go ahead. >> i wanted to point out a couple of the weapons we understand they will be getting. and using. and that includes a switchblade drone and for our viewers, these are small, portable drones that carry a warhead on them. they detonate on impact. they also are being sent the s-300 surface to air missile systems. these have longer range. these are not the jets or no-fly zone zelenskyy has really wanted and a...

Six pounds each. here is a demo of the 300 model from a company that makes it. the drone launches from a tripod case you see. an operator controls it using gps and real-time video from a camera or they can program it to a specific location. either way it is electric and it is silent. hard to detect. experts say it is deadly and it is precise. but, again, kamikaze, one and done. the drone hits the target and thats it. not to understate their capabilities but we are talking 100 of these. theyre li...

Theyre misunderstanding the ukrainian peel and leferl of defiance i think their capable of and i dont think it is going to end well for them. >> do you think ukrainian people win at the end of the day? >> i sure hope so lawrence. i wish between 2014 and now ukraine had become a part of nato an european happening and a lot of things -- the people in the white house certainly could have handled this better back in the fall. right now, were sort of limited in our choice of options. lawrence: all ri...

In fact they were chechans. reports that chechen were fighting alongside the taliban in afghanistan. give as clean approach for putin. hey, that wasnt us doing heinous things into ukraine. pete: somebody else. >> that was chechens. pete: 30 seconds, introduction after switchblade drone, effectively a kamikaze drone, flown in 25 miles away. how important would that be for ukraine at this moment? >> it is very important. especially, you know, hopefully we dont just send 100. i see reports there wi...