Meaning of kamikaze drone | Babel Free

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A drone vehicle that attacks targets by crashing into them and exploding.

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“This aircraft would essentially function as a kamikaze drone, crashing into its target⟳ and detonating its explosives upon impact, and did not appear⟳ to be much of a step up from the single-use drones Iran had years earlier.”

“One such kamikaze drone is called the Switchblade; it was introduced by AeroVironment in 2012 and sold widely to the US military.”

“The Ukrainians themselves have⟳ been using kamikaze drones to strike⟳ against Russian targets – and asked their allies to supply⟳ them with more of these deadly weapons.”

“As we predicted at the time, a drone attack on Sevastopol's Black Sea Fleet headquarters over the summer proved an incredible harbinger of the war's next chapter. Ukraine has used improvised unmanned systems – primarily its so-called 'Alibaba drones' — to attack beyond its current territorial bounds and even into Russia proper. The introduction of unmanned drone ships configured as anti-ship weapons is an extension of these tactics. Russia's use⟳ en-masse of Iranian kamikaze drones against Ukrainian infrastructure in the last⟳ two months, as well as Ukraine increasing its own⟳ kamikaze drone operations in an attempt⟳ to strike⟳ back, has further evolved at least one major facet of conflict into a drone war of sorts.”

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