Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces claimed to have used US-made Switchblade bombs to destroy Russian main battle tanks.
The video was posted to Special Operations Forces’ social networking site Earlier today, shows a Russian T-72 tank before being suddenly attacked by Ukrainian Switchblade ammunition.
According to the Ukrainian military, Russian soldiers calmly drink alcohol, sitting on the armor of their T-72 tanks.
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“A state-of-the-art suicide drone armed with high explosives flew directly at the tank, inflicting irreparable damage on the enemy. The entire process of killing the enemy was captured by a camera mounted on the killer drone,” Special Operations Forces said in a Facebook post on Tuesday.
The Switchblade is a tube-launched munition that can carry both a camera and a warhead developed by AeroVironment. The company says the Switchblade represents the next generation of long-range loitering missiles, providing unprecedented Reconnaissance, surveillance and target acquisition support capabilities, and features high-precision, high-resolution optics. lingers for more than 40 minutes and anti-armor warheads for greater attack, hardening targets at longer distances.
The US Department of Defense has delivered dozens of weapons called the larger Switchblade 600 and the smaller Switchblade 300 to Ukraine.
The US has promised hundreds more Switchblades, as well as mysterious new loitering drones called the “Phoenix Ghost”, designed by the US Air Force’s Big Safari office for use in the US. Ukraine against Russian forces.
