Reuters: US military aid for Ukraine for first time includes Black Hornet spy drone
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The U.S. Department of Defense announced $400 million in additional security assistance for Ukraine on Tuesday, including air defense missiles, armored vehicles and small drones, as Ukraine's counteroffensive against Russia grinds on.
The new aid package, which was first reported by Reuters, will include for the first time U.S. furnished Black Hornet surveillance drones made by Teledyne FLIR Defense, part of Teledyne Technologies.
The Norwegian-built Hornet is being used in Ukraine through donations by the British and Norwegian governments, the company said. FLIR Unmanned Aerial Systems was awarded a $93 million contract in April to provide the small reconnaissance drones to the U.S. Army.
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Update: US to provide tiny Black Hornet nano-drones to Ukraine in new aid package (Ukrainska Pravda)
WNU Editor: This is what the Black Hornet spy drone can do (see video below).
Not Quite "Danny Dunn, Invisible Boy" but close!
ReplyDeleteImpressive little machine. It would be good if future wars could be fought drone vs drone instead of humans trying to obliterate fellow humans.
ReplyDeleteDrones can do great things and help people do the almost impossible 10 years ago.
ReplyDeleteBut
Here is where this is headed.
How are you going to defend against this crap.
BTW
This film is about 7-10 years old
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlO2gcs1YvM
Scary crap