Russia will test the drone drone at the end of this year
Last October, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation signed contracts with the Kazan Design Bureau Sokol and the St. Petersburg company Transas for research and development work. The cost of the agreements amounted to about 3 billion rubles. As part of the projects, it is planned to build a reconnaissance and strike Drones respectively weighing about 1 ton and up to 5 tons.
As the vice president of Transas, V. Godunov, said, the company concluded an agreement on strategic partnership with Sokol Design Bureau. The two companies will build drones jointly. Transas will develop control systems and on-board electronics, and Sokol will directly build UAVs and ground complexes for them. Both vehicles, according to plans, will make the first flights in 2014. With 2015, it is planned to begin their flight tests.
In January, 2010 reported that Tupolev was developing a medium-range UAV project. It is based in part on a reconnaissance-strike complex with a Tu-300 apparatus. (Technical details were not specified). In 2007, the OKB "Klimov" and "MiG" presented the shock drone Scat, which was created using stealth technology. Now this project is closed, but its achievements will be applied in projects of promising UAVs.
The Transas company is the developer of the Dozor-600 drone. This drone can be used as a shock or reconnaissance vehicle. For the first time, a UAV was shown to the public at the Max-2009 air show. His trials were scheduled to begin in 2010, and since then there has been no information about this project.
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