Phoenix Ghost: What we know about the US's new drones for Ukraine

The United States has disclosed details of its latest military aid package to be used by Ukraine's forces in the country's east after Russian forces this week launched a full-scale offensive in the region. The new $800m assistance package includes a new unmanned aerial weapons system, or drone, dubbed the Phoenix Ghost. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said the drones, which are produced by a US company, Aevex Aerospace, are particularly well suited for the fight in Ukraine's east, in the flat and open terrain of the region known as Donbas. "Without getting into the specifications, but the kinds of things this drone can do lend itself well to this particular kind of terrain," Kirby told reporters on Thursday. "I think I'm just going leave it at that. But its purpose is akin to that of the Switchblade … which is basically a one-way drone, an attack drone. And that's essentially what this is designed to do".