{"id":3258,"date":"2023-02-25T04:26:21","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T22:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3258"},"modified":"2025-03-26T11:18:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T05:48:37","slug":"what-is-switchblade-600","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/what-is-switchblade-600\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Switchblade 600?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Switchblade 600 kamikaze \u00a0drone:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The Switchblade 600 kamikaze drone <strong>is a man-portable tube-launched loitering munition developed<\/strong> and designed <strong>by the US company AeroVironment<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is an <strong>upgraded version of Switchblade 300<\/strong> <strong>fitted with an ATGM<\/strong> (Anti-Tank Guided Missile), designed to <strong>neutralize tanks<\/strong> <strong>and heavy armored vehicles.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It aims to <strong>provide precision optics for destroying targets<\/strong> in a direct downward strike.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Features:<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It <strong>can fly, track and engage non-line-of-sight targets<\/strong> and armored vehicles with <strong>precision lethal effects<\/strong> <strong>without the need for external ISR<\/strong>(Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance)\u00a0 <strong>or fire assets<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It has a <strong>range of over 40km<\/strong> and has more than <strong>40 minutes of flight endurance<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>powered by an electric battery and propeller<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>It is <strong>equipped <\/strong>with high-resolution <strong>EO\/IR sensors<\/strong> and <strong>advanced precision flight control, <\/strong>which are used for navigation, surveillance, and targeting.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What are Kamikaze drones?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Kamikaze drones are <strong>crewless aerial vehicles loaded with explosives<\/strong> that can <strong>fly directly to tanks<\/strong> or units and <strong>explode on collision.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>They are <strong>known as a \u201cloitering munition\u201d<\/strong> because they are capable of <strong>circling for some time in an area <\/strong>identified as a potential target and <strong>only striking once an enemy asset is identified.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They are <strong>small, portable and can be quickly launched<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>They are <strong>designed to crash into a target and explode<\/strong>, <strong>detonating their warhead<\/strong> and <strong>destroying the drones<\/strong> in the process.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Their main advantage is that <strong>they are hard to detect and can be fired from a distance.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What are EO\/IR sensors?<\/h3>\n<p>EO\/IR (Electro-Optical\/Infra-Red) systems are imaging systems used for military or law enforcement applications which include both visible and infrared sensors. Because they span both visible and infrared wavelengths, EO\/IR systems provide total situational awareness both day and night and in low light conditions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/us-commits-2-billion-in-drones-ammunition-aid-to-ukraine\/article66549124.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>U.S. commits $2 billion in drones, ammunition, aid to Ukraine<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Switchblade 600 is a man-portable tube-launched loitering munition designed by the US company AeroVironment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3259,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3258","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}