The agreement supplements the initial contract with Aerovironment, increasing total funding to $ 231. 3 million. Switchblade ordered by July 2024. The US Army has been using Switchblade 300 Switchblade Bargage Ammunition for over 10 years. They allow the military to conduct intelligence and observations by transmitting a video through a 50-fold chamber and GPS coordinates in real time.
In addition, drones can capture goals and then attack them with high accuracy or interrupt dive on the go, returning to a normal flight. The US Armed Forces began to use Switchblade 300 drones to destroy opponents in Afghanistan, invulnerable to artillery, but drones were not very popular. However, the war in Ukraine forced the military to revise the attitude towards drones and barracks, in particular.
"Switchblade 300 continues to remain an important weapon in the arsenal of unmanned the Armed Forces of Ukraine," said Brett Hash, Vice president of AerovironMent Tactical Missile Systems. - "This new contract is once again demonstrating global demand for production, the Switchblade 300 -proven complexes are in battle. It is a great honor for us that Switchblade 300 continues to support the US and our allies.
" In April 2022 it became known that the United States was first handed over to Ukraine by switchblade 300 drones. They are already successfully used to defeat the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces. For example, in March 2023 a video appeared how the SCA of the Armed Forces destroyed a group of Russian military drone Switchblade 300. The occupiers were fixed on a hill in Donetsk region and reflected from UAV with antitrone guns that could not interfere with the US apparatus.
Všetky práva vyhradené IN-Ukraine.info - 2022