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Billion in overall assistance. the game changer i'm waiting to see will have to do with the impact of the so-called switchblade drone, this is manned portable, launched out of a tube, it expands, it's essentially a suicide drone it's electric so you can't, battery powered, you can't hear it. and it can loiter above with a soldier looking at it and guiding it at the feed and then have it dive on to an enemy after about 25 or 30 minutes or so, quite accurate, can lock on to a target. i'm told the first hundred of these in the initial package will be the smaller warheads more for personnel than v...

Them so we're seeing a bit of both of those and drone average across country. i mean the ukrainians they have turkish made drones that are financial with probably less than 30 in the arsenal more on the way. medium range drone so everything from the small level dji hand held and up to big boys. these turkish drops 2 million each they have 18,000 feet operating altitude and 24 hours and they are inflicting massive pain on russian forces. tons of instances where dreams can seek low and also identify other targets for ukraine artillery in the process so that's a big win military wise and also a h...

To them. asking for stinger and javelins and anti-aircraft batteries, able to shoot down russian cargo and fighter planes arriving. according to the "new york times," and this is interesting, the president is considering sending something called the switchblade drone, which essentially is a remote controlled smart phone. it's very cheap. i think each one is $6,000. and the question is whether or not they will release them because at this point the only other country that has been licensed to get them is the united kingdom. they are worried if the former soviets, the russian get this technology...

You launch a weapon at them. the swiss blade drone is very different. it's 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 nearby or something, a few seconds before it hits the target, they can actually stop the drone from...

It may be an issue of -- >> i want to point out a couple of -- >> we've 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 asked for, but are these game changers? >> two quick comments. the s-300 and the other warsaw pact e...