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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 don't love situation we are doing in he particular way. maybe it's a way to prevent escalation. but we have already seen -- as we send more weapons putin has made it clear he's going to bomb further west. then get the weaponry to the ukrainians to do this fighting. you can't underestimate how it has under performed. and as these columns are in the

Nbc's 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 doesn't 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 find and kill it in minutes. >> launching. >> reporter: the drone's manufacturer showed us how an ope...

>> reporter: so we're hearing from ukrainian troops, but i'm also hearing from u.s. military officials, that the russian offensive has been poorly coordinated. it seems to be -- there's very little communication between the national guard and the regular russian army troops. they're 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 they've been quickly eliminated by the ukrainian forces. they've been using their turkish drones effectively. they are hoping, as the biden...

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...

Decimated. >> ken, yeah, let me ask you that question. i bet everyone watching right now is going, why aren't 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 have a version of this, the chinese have it, the israelis make some kamikaze drones. so they're ava...