{"id":309111,"date":"2017-05-21T02:09:41","date_gmt":"2017-05-21T01:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-military-gets-350-kamikaze-drones-to-combat-daesh-in-iraq\/"},"modified":"2017-05-21T02:09:41","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T01:09:41","slug":"us-military-gets-350-kamikaze-drones-to-combat-daesh-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-military-gets-350-kamikaze-drones-to-combat-daesh-in-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"US military gets 350 &#039;kamikaze drones&#039; to combat Daesh in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#222222\">The US military has reportedly been supplied with\u00a0inexpensive \u201ckamikaze drones\u201d for use by its special operations troops in the purported battle against Daesh (ISIL) terrorists in Iraq and Syria.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#222222\">In its Joint Urgent Operational Needs Statement, the US Special Operations Command (SOCOM) requested 325 \u201cMiniature Aeria Missile Systems\u201d or LMAMS by this summer,\u00a0 the delivery of which has already been completed, US-based <em>Defense One<\/em> reported.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#222222\">According to the report, SOCOM has just received 350 of the so-called switchblades &#8212; <\/span><span style=\"color:#1C1C1C\">a tube-launched drones outfitted with cameras and cursor-on-target\u00a0GPS\u00a0navigation<\/span><span style=\"color:#222222\"> &#8212; which can be fired from \u201chandheld bazooka-like launchers.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#222222\">It cited officials of the California-based company, AeroVironment, which manufactures the drones, further adding that they \u201ccan be operated manually or autonomously.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#222222\">The drone can fly for about <\/span><span style=\"color:#1C1C1C\">15 minutes, at up to 100 miles per hour.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#1C1C1C\">The report further cited Army&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/05\/21\/522630\/US-kamikaze-drones-Iraq-Daesh-Special-Operation-Command-SOCOM-Col-John-Reim\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US military has reportedly been supplied with\u00a0inexpensive \u201ckamikaze drones\u201d for use by its special operations troops in the purported battle against Daesh (ISIL) terrorists in Iraq and Syria. In its Joint Urgent Operational Needs Statement, the US Special Operations Command (SOCOM) requested 325 \u201cMiniature Aeria Missile Systems\u201d or LMAMS by this summer,\u00a0 the delivery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-309111","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}