Apologies ... I thought this info was so well known it needed only to be pointed out :-(
Rather than relying on my links too much,why don't you do a bit of research yourself?
googling "switchblade drone" will get you
you might even try the DoD site... I think some of the relevant contract awards are still documented there.
- the manufacturers site .. AeroVironment
(who also make the Wasp, Puma and other small recon drones used by US forces
... no "pilots" there either just a low cost control station and an "operator")- general sources like wikipedia (with all their subsequent references)
- reputable newspaper commentators
- several professional defense publications
In fact there is a whole raft of Manufacturers trying to get in the market for "loitering munitions" as the US prefer to call kamikaze drones
There is/have been a whole set of programme for this
Lethal Miniature Aerial Munition System (LMAMS)
Low Cost Autonomous Attack System (Locaas)
etc etc
For visuals you might try youtube (though these will mostly be manufacturers "puff")
Same goes for the Hero-30 and the rest of it's larger brothers from uvision air.
This is an Israeli company supplying the IDF .. so there is a lot of newies interest about their use vs the Palestinians.
Hence Israel Industry is also a world leader
e.g. the Rotem rotor craft I mentioned is from IAI but new and AFAIK not in active use
See also the Harop from the same company.
However this larger drone is a low cost "loitering" ARM equivalent to the old UK ALARM
and thus probably not as much use in COIN as in lowish tech conventional war.)
Soon the IDF may have the larger/longer ranged/more expensive Skystriker announced only a few months ago
http://elbitsystems.com/pr-new/elbit-systems-introduces-skystriker/
Aside: as one of the few mid sized defense forces actively involved in genuine COIN,
the IDF happens to be world leaders in the tactical use of relatively low cost relatively small drones.
but Israel is also an example that a blade cuts both ways... Hamas is employing "improvised" recon drones against the IDF
with how much success it is difficult to know since the Israeli only ever publicize their shoot downs
http://www.businessinsider.com/r-israel-shoots-down-hamas-drone-from-gaza-strip-military-2017-2?IR=T)
and of course Hamas is not saying how much intel it was able to get in the face of the F-15/AWACS combo.
Thanks for this. I will have to dig into it at a later date.