{"id":137122,"date":"2022-03-20T04:02:41","date_gmt":"2022-03-20T11:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/what-are-the-switchblade-kamikaze-drones-the-us-is-sending-to-ukraine"},"modified":"2022-03-20T04:02:41","modified_gmt":"2022-03-20T11:02:41","slug":"what-are-the-switchblade-kamikaze-drones-the-us-is-sending-to-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/03\/what-are-the-switchblade-kamikaze-drones-the-us-is-sending-to-ukraine","title":{"rendered":"What are the Switchblade \u2018kamikaze\u2019 drones the US is sending to Ukraine?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/what-are-the-switchblade-kamikaze-drones-the-us-is-sending-to-ukraine2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 They have on-board video cameras and colour sensors to aid with guidance.<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 They are essentially camera-equipped, remote-controlled flying bombs that can be directed by an operator to find a target then, when ready, plunge on to it. They explode on contact, hence the \u201ckamikaze\u201d nickname.<\/p>\n<p>Switchblades extend the range of attack on Russian vehicles and units to beyond the sight of the user. That gives them an advantage over the guided heat-seeking missiles the Ukrainians have used against Russian tanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00b7 They have on-board video cameras and colour sensors to aid with guidance. \u00b7 They are essentially camera-equipped, remote-controlled flying bombs that can be directed by an operator to find a target then, when ready, plunge on to it. They explode on contact, hence the \u201ckamikaze\u201d nickname. Switchblades extend the range of attack on Russian [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,1694],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-electronics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}