AeroVironment Switchblade 600 Drone. Courtesy: AeroVironment
Defense News: Delayed kamikaze drone for Ukraine on track for next month: Pentagon
WASHINGTON ― The U.S. Army is poised to award a contract for longer-range, harder-hitting kamikaze drones for Ukraine more than five months after they were pledged to the fight against Russia, according to the Pentagon.
The research and development contract for 10 of the Switchblade 600 drones in question, made by AeroVironment, is expected in the next 30 days, Pentagon spokeswoman Jessica Maxwell said in an email to Defense News.
While Russia’s five-month-old invasion of Ukraine has mostly been an artillery war, thousands of drones are being used by both sides, and both the United States and Russia have been signaling that more are on the way.
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WNU editor: The expectation is that these drones will make a difference in the war .... How Bigger Kamikaze Drones Expected From U.S. Could Boost Ukraine's Fight (Newsweek).
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