{"id":221948,"date":"2025-09-16T04:08:49","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T09:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/us-firms-drone-conducts-strikes-with-next-gen-loitering-munition"},"modified":"2025-09-16T04:08:49","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T09:08:49","slug":"us-firms-drone-conducts-strikes-with-next-gen-loitering-munition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/us-firms-drone-conducts-strikes-with-next-gen-loitering-munition","title":{"rendered":"US firm\u2019s drone conducts strikes with next-gen loitering munition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/us-firms-drone-conducts-strikes-with-next-gen-loitering-munition.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new military test has showcased potential that large drones can work as motherships for smaller loitering munitions. The plan could get a push following a recent air launch of a Switchblade 600 loitering munition (LM) from a General Atomics\u2019 Block 5 MQ-9A unmanned aircraft system (UAS).<\/p>\n<p>It marked the first time a Switchblade 600 has ever been launched from an unmanned aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>The flight testing took place from July 22\u201324 at the U.S. Army Yuma Proving Grounds Test Range.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new military test has showcased potential that large drones can work as motherships for smaller loitering munitions. The plan could get a push following a recent air launch of a Switchblade 600 loitering munition (LM) from a General Atomics\u2019 Block 5 MQ-9A unmanned aircraft system (UAS). It marked the first time a Switchblade 600 [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221948","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\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}