The US Army plans to buy at least 10 unmanned loitering munitions to destroy soft targets, including enemy personnel and vehicles, with minimal collateral damage.rnAerovironment's Switchblade unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) meets an emerging army requirement for a vehicle that destroys targets with sniper precision but without the line of sight limitation to accurately hitting the target.rn"It is a UAV that doesn't come home - it explodes," William Nichols, an army programme manager who is overseeing the Lethal Miniature Aerial Munition System (LMAMS) project at Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama, told Jane's on 12 May. "It has a warhead in it and the warhead is designed to take out some very specific types of soft targets with very, very minimal collateral damage."
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