{"id":205528,"date":"2025-02-04T20:08:13","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T02:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/us-football-like-kamikaze-drone-hits-155-mph-with-1-7-pound-bomb"},"modified":"2025-02-04T20:08:13","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T02:08:13","slug":"us-football-like-kamikaze-drone-hits-155-mph-with-1-7-pound-bomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/us-football-like-kamikaze-drone-hits-155-mph-with-1-7-pound-bomb","title":{"rendered":"US football-like kamikaze drone hits 155 mph with 1.7-pound bomb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/us-football-like-kamikaze-drone-hits-155-mph-with-1-7-pound-bomb.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The company also says that it can prove to be equally useful in the open seas, where it can help in ISR, search and rescue, and other missions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImagine, I can upload the mission in a second, throw it from here, forget about it, and it will strike a high-value target (HVT) 40 miles away \u2013 fast, accurate, and quiet,\u201d said Alexander Balan, XDown founder, in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/posts\/alexander-balan-79b36267_psk-activity-7290411767883538435-ISit?utm_source=social_share_send&utm_medium=android_app&rcm=ACoAACbt65oBLrMyeVINewFrzOsum4wjxKRXpek&utm_campaign=copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">post on<\/a> LinkedIn.<\/p>\n<p>XDown estimates that the cost of the PSK will be fairly competitive, making it a lucrative offering for the US armed forces. The price and its formal launch date is yet to be announced.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The company also says that it can prove to be equally useful in the open seas, where it can help in ISR, search and rescue, and other missions. \u201cImagine, I can upload the mission in a second, throw it from here, forget about it, and it will strike a high-value target (HVT) 40 miles away [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205528","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\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}