After an urgent request earlier this year, US special forces were just given 350 kamikaze drone missiles to help fight ISIS in Iraq, Defense One reported.
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US special ops just got 350 kamikaze drones to fight ISIS in Iraq
AeroVironment, which makes the drone missiles, describes them as "miniature flying lethal missile can be operated manually or autonomously."
A member of the US Army take position at the US section of a base for Iraqi army and Kurdish peshmerga forces in Makhmour, southeast of Mosul, Iraq, December 23, 2016.
The drones, called Switchblades, are fired from bazooka-like launchers and have
But the US military isn't alone in creating new drones.
“This is how adaptive the enemy was,” Thomas said. “About five or six months ago, it was a day that the Iraqi effort almost came to a screeching halt. Literally in the span of 24 hours, there were up to 70 drones in the air. At one time, 12 ‘killer bees,’ if you will, right overhead.”
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Around that time,
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