Checked in the tube. TsAGI is completing dual-purpose UAV tests

TsAGI plans to complete aerodynamic tests of the new drone dual purpose during the week, said the head of the department of aerodynamics of power plants of the Central Aerohydrodynamic Institute. Zhukovsky Alexander Chevagin.

TsAGI, wind tunnel

The tests are carried out in the subsonic wind tunnel T-101, transmit RIA "News". Chevagi noted that he could not disclose data about the customer of the test or report any details of the project.

A tailsitter is a vertical take-off and landing vehicle capable of landing on the tail, performing horizontal flight “in an aircraft-like” manner. The development of a dual-purpose aircraft, tailing the Pheasant, became known in December 2016. It was reported that the take-off mass of the drone will be up to 500 kg, cruising speed - about 350 km per hour. The rotax912 XHUMX horsepower engine will be used as the power plant.

A similar device is being developed in the USA. According to media reports, testing of sea tailsters, which Northrop Grumman is working on, is scheduled for the beginning of 2018. Such a machine is convenient to use on ships equipped with helipads.

Comments

[Vard]

I wonder what his carrying capacity is in the sense of how many weapons he will pull ...

[NIKNN]

Quote: Vard

I wonder what his carrying capacity is in the sense of how many weapons he will pull ...

Who?

Chevagi noted that he can not disclose data about the customer tests

The development of a dual-use aircraft - the Tailor "Pheasant" - became known in December 2016. It was reported that the take-off mass of the UAV will be up to 500 kg, cruising speed - about 350 km per hour.

If only this one?

[Vitaly Anisimov]

Well, at the expense of dual-use, our know how to make ..
Also nuclear weapons and nuclear power plants, icebreakers, nuclear submarines .. Everything is going according to plan!

[Vard]

And what else is there in the article about which device?

[NIKNN]

Quote: Vard

And what else is there in the article about which device?

Well, I don’t know about what.

Chevagi noted that he could not disclose data about the test customer or provide any project details.

By the method of scientific poking, provided that the apparatus weighs up to 500 kg and vertical take-off, the mass of the combat load is likely to be up to 100 kg.

[NEXUS]

An interesting drone ... only with a mass of 500 kg it will probably not be a strike, but only a scout ...

[Hagalaz]

What is the gate valve? Whose production?

[vadim dok]

Rotarx 912 horizontally opposed piston engine with power up to 100 hp manufactured by .Bombardier!

[Ingvar0401]

Quote: Hagalaz

912 horsepower Rotax100 engine

Interest Ask. Himself shocked by the name - again we will depend on someone ...

[Borders]

http://okbmai.ru/rotaxbestprice/

[Piramidon]

How good it was before. Nobody knew anything before the adoption of technology in service. Now everything, from the general designer to the test driver, upload their comments and photos on the Internet. Do we have anything left from special departments?

[Bronevick]

Well, there are no weapons yet, but they are already afraid. Efficiency 110%.

[APASUS]

An interesting device, although it is not clear what is the reason for such a scheme?

[pafegosoff]

Yes, somewhere in the early 1960s in the magazine "Young Technician" - one to one!

[pafegosoff]

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