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The size of a backpack. it can be launched at a location, and it literally crashes into it, and it explodes. it has ammunition on board, and it explodes. it is a single use drone, but just that very nature of the name, drone, it does not involve an operator. it does not put people in danger. but it can be very effective in targeting things as big as tanks, and equipment on the ground. so because these are relatively new pieces of equipment, we learned today from a senior defense official that the u.s. military actually has been training members, a small group of members of the ukrainian milita...

Ukrainian soldiers here in the united states to use specific weapons to attack russian tanks. can you explain this? >> what happened here is that you have the pentagon already sending several hundred drones which blade drones, drones that basically come in a backpack, called kamikaze drones, they basically strike armored vehicles, tanks, those kind of things -- it turns out there are about a dozen ukrainian soldiers here in united states before the invasion started in february, who were here on educational assignment. the pentagon decided to send the switchblade drones. anyways, when i train u...

More things from the pentagon. number one, javelins that are part of the new 100 million dollar supplemental military aid will be in ukrainian hand necessary four to six days and learning the u.s. is training ukrainian pilots on those switchblade drones, the comcausy drones, they will be back here in the country putting them to use. we expect the fight to escalate in the donald trump region. >> carley: griff jenkins, thank you, griff. white house -- after president biden made a joke about the u.s. involvement in the war on ukraine. >> todd: lucas donaldson. >> speaking to union workers soundin...

The united states is sending in these switchblade drones. they take out, this is a radar position here. they can also if you move over here, this is the 300 version. they're tank killers. if the russians mount that offensive, how important are these drones? >> absolutely vital. the ukrainians are doing as well as they are is for three reasons. the will of the ukrainian people has never wavered. their logistics have been brilliant. but the third thing is technology. the ukrainians have figured out how to leverage technology. what they are doing with commercial off-the-shelf drones is amazing. t...

Every russian tank in ukraine we have provided or will soon provide ten anti-tank systems. ten for every single russian tank. so in terms of what they need to act quickly and act effectively to deal with the planes that are firing at them from the skies, the tanks that are trying to destroy their cities from the ground, they have the tools that they need. they're going to keep getting them and we will keep sustaining that. >> we are also learning that the u.s. military has trained some ukrainian military members on how to use switchblade drones. >> now, you don't want one of these coming at yo...