American officials have announced another military aid package for Ukraine, this time including a batch of tiny Black Hornet reconnaissance drones. What exactly are Black Hornets? Who makes them? What makes them expensive? And why is the US sending them to Ukraine? Sputnik explores.

US officials have spent nearly a week touting a new $400 million weapons package for Kiev to assist in NATO’s ongoing proxy war against Russia, with the weapons, taken directly from the Pentagon’s own stocks, including NASAMS, Stinger and Patriot air defense missiles, Stryker armored vehicles, TOW and Javelin anti-tank missiles, howitzer ammo, HIMARS rockets and 28 million rounds of small arms ammunition.

On Monday, anonymous officials revealed to media that the arms package will also include Black Hornet Nanos, a pricy, sophisticated unmanned aerial vehicle about the size of a small bird.

What are Black Hornet Drones Used For?

Black Hornet Nanos are a micro UAV weighing in at just 17-18 grams. They can be carried around by troops and deployed to provide hi-res images and video of the surrounding environment using three separate onboard cameras. The drones resemble a tiny helicopter, are about 100 mm long and 25 mm wide, with their main rotor blade’s diameter measuring in at about 120 mm.

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Russian military industry has produced weapons far more advanced than the obsolete missiles being given to Ukraine by NATO, experts told Sputnik, so there is very little to be learned from them except in adapting Russian air defenses to better combat them.

After it was recently proposed by Mikhail Sheremet, a Russian lawmaker who represents the Republic of Crimea in the State Duma, discussion has swirled about the possibility that Russian military industry might use several “trophy” missiles recently captured in Ukraine to produce new weapons of its own.

Examples of “trophy” missiles include the US-made MGM-140 Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS), a ballistic missile launched by the HIMARS mobile rocket system, and the British-made Storm Shadow/SCALP air-launched cruise missile.

During the Cold War, the Soviet Union was notorious for reverse-engineering captured military equipment from more technologically advanced nations, such as the World War II-era T-4 Bull bomber, which was a carbon-copy of the American B-29 Superfortress.

Another example is the early heat-seeking air-to-air missile, the American AIM-9 Sidewinder, which was passed to the Soviets by their Chinese allies in 1958 and turned into the K-13 by Soviet missile maker Vympel.

However, several Russian military experts told Sputnik on Wednesday that Russia’s weapons industry is no longer lagging behind the West and produces much better weapons than the aging projectiles being donated to Ukraine.

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