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".

When Mark Barlet realized there weren't many gaming resources available for a friend with multiple sclerosis, he and Stephen Spohn helmed a solution that would change countless lives. They created AbleGamers and turned a personal mission into a global vision of video game accessibility for all. "AbleGamers hasn't followed any path. We've created our own," Spohn said. He's AbleGamers' COO and has spinal muscular atrophy, which attacks his muscles and limits movement from the neck down.

Marines will soon be even more deadly - and safer - with their new extremely lethal Switchblades. When you think of a switchblade, you think of a smallish knife that fits in a pocket, right? Marines will soon have in their hands entirely different breed of Switchblades – these are smart, flying little drones loaded with devastating miniature missiles. Tiny, fast and very quiet, they are extremely difficult for adversaries to detect or track. Even if an adversary does spot the drone, it doesn't matter.

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Samson Motors has joined the race to have the first flying cars in the skies, with the world's first 200mph (320km/h) flying sports car, dubbed the Switchblade. The Switchblade can cruise at an altitude of 13,000 feet and at a top speed of 200mph and is fitted with a safety parachute. Samson Motors claims the car will be ready for launch in spring 2018, with prices starting at £90,000 ($120,000). The Switchblade is a three-wheel car, designed by Oregon-based Samson Motors. The car has two seats, and on the ground is 5.1 metres long.

US Special Forces battling ISIS have taken delivery of hundreds of'kamikaze drones' that can be launched from bazooka-like launchers. Earlier this year leaders with U.S. Special Operations Command, or SOCOM, requested 325 'Miniature Aerial Missile Systems,' or LMAMS. Known as Switchblades, they are'miniature flying lethal missiles' that feature inbuilt GPS and even object recognition cameras to ensure they hit their targets. Known as Switchblades, they are'miniature flying lethal missiles' that feature inbuilt GPS and cameras to ensure they hit their targets, and military bosses have unveiled a new'hacker lab' for weapons designed to blow up even bigger targets The weapons led military bosses to set up a new'hacker lab' for weapons designed to blow up even bigger targets. 'The threat is really changing -- this explosion of commercial technology, of super-empowered commercial technology, of each individual technology path on an accelerated schedule,' James'Hondo' Geurts, who leads SOCOM's acquisitions, technology and logistics efforts, said Tuesday at a National Defense Industry Association event, according to Defense One. AeroVironment's combat proven Switchblade offers special operations forces'a back-packable, rapidly deployable, loitering precision strike munition for use against beyond-line-of-sight (BLOS) targets' the firm says.