Named the timing of the first flight of the new heavy attack drone "Sirius"

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The Kronstadt group confirmed plans to start flight tests of a new heavy strike drone "Sirius". According to the group's CEO Oleg Shilov, the drone will take off in the near future.

The company is preparing a prototype of the strike Sirius for the first flight, flight tests will begin this year, more detailed information on the timing could not be obtained. Earlier, May was called the start of flight tests, they were supposed to last until the end of the year, after which it was planned to make a decision on mass production. The Ministry of Defense is waiting for this drone next year.



The first flight of the Sirius is scheduled for this year.

- leads RIA News Shilov's words.

The Sirius strike drone is a heavier variant of the Orion with satellite control and the ability to interact with a manned aviation. Due to the equipping of two engines "Sirius" has a greater range and greater payload. Refers to medium-altitude long-range drones. Structurally, it is an aircraft of a normal aerodynamic configuration with a thin fuselage, a large-span straight wing and a V-shaped plumage. The power plant includes two turboprop engines.

Wingspan - 23 m, length - up to 9 m. Maximum takeoff weight - 2 - 2,5 tons (preliminary), of which 1 ton is fuel. Payload - 450 kg (external sling - 300 kg). Flight altitude - 7 thousand meters, cruising speed - 180 km / h.
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    1. +22
      9 August 2022 12: 59
      Great. It’s a pity we just get baptized, according to tradition, we start strongly after the thunder struck ....
      (Applause for his publication began 4 years ago.)
      1. +9
        9 August 2022 13: 18
        January hi, so this applies not only to heavy drones, Armata, Kurganets, Boomerang, how much have they already been riding in tests? Did the warrior go to the front en masse in combat performance?
        1. +11
          9 August 2022 13: 22
          Quote: Murmur 55
          ian, so this applies not only to heavy drones

          And I wasn't just talking about Sirius. It's not a technical problem. This is a system problem. We traditionally test and prepare for the production of something lasts a little longer than all over the world the production of any product itself ...
          1. +1
            10 August 2022 01: 54
            Quote: ian
            And I wasn't just talking about Sirius. It's not a technical problem.

            For them, the engines have just guessed - a German company from our compatriots has developed a whole line of diesel engines for UAVs, and production is already in Russia. Here, apparently, the first engines did go.
          2. +2
            10 August 2022 02: 19
            And how long does "Kronstadt" "move" to the Moscow region?

            The first flight of the Sirius is scheduled for this year.

            They probably expect to make it to the end current year.

            The plant for serial production of reconnaissance and strike drones in the city of Dubna (Moscow region) will begin work in three shifts. He announced this on June 30 at a meeting with employees of the Dubna Machine-Building Plant Deputy General Director of the company-owner of the enterprise - the Kronstadt group Alexey Belykh.

            But five years ago they stuttered that they had plans to create a production of drones in Ulyanovsk!? And since then, silence ...

            Probably the answer should be sought in the fact that it does not belong to the state, but to some private structure. Yes, and the company "Kronstadt" until 2015 was called "Transas" and it was she who received an order from the state to carry out work on the creation of the UAV "Orion" as part of the development work "Inohodets".

            The Kronstadt Group is a wholly private enterprise with Russian share capital. Since October 2015, it has been part of AFK Sistema. Within the Group there is Kronstadt Unmanned Systems LLC. AFK Sistema is a Russian investment company. Large private investor in the real sector of the Russian economy. The investment portfolio of AFK Sistema consists mainly of Russian companies in various sectors of the economy (telecommunications, retail, high technology, logging and wood processing, pharmaceuticals, medical services, agriculture, energy, finance, hotel business, etc.). The owner is billionaire Vladimir Yevtushenkov.

            And Yevtushenkov is like in that saying "and a Swiss, and a reaper, and a gambler on the pipe" ...
        2. 0
          9 August 2022 13: 36
          boomerangs flashed "behind the curb", in one of the videos at the military correspondents a month and a half ago
          1. 0
            9 August 2022 13: 38
            Hort hi, I missed this video, and I didn’t notice the information on the carts either. And how many of them flashed there?
            1. 0
              9 August 2022 16: 48
              several)
      2. +2
        9 August 2022 19: 22
        Quote: ian
        Great. It’s a pity we just get baptized, according to tradition, we start strongly after the thunder struck ....
        (Applause for his publication began 4 years ago.)

        And how many more years ahead? They drank and drank.
      3. -2
        11 August 2022 10: 00
        This only means that the NWO began ahead of schedule .. But if (of course, what I am writing is cynical) the war drags on for a year, all the 55 gadgets mentioned will go to the troops in series.
    2. +2
      9 August 2022 12: 59
      This device is really needed. Already now. Maybe Iranian UAVs will temporarily close this gap?
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    4. +8
      9 August 2022 13: 02
      The fact that he knows how to patch long and far is good. Let's hope that the filling of the device will be worthy: high-resolution optics of its own production and powerful high-precision weapons.
      1. +1
        10 August 2022 01: 56
        He still does not know how, because he does not exist. But the declared characteristics are not bad.
    5. +25
      9 August 2022 13: 03
      This should have been done yesterday!
      Instead of "tank biathlon", "aviation darts", "sport army" and other stupid show-windows!!!
      1. +2
        9 August 2022 13: 21
        A complaint, like gossip, not only does not solve the problem, but also generates a feeling of resentment.
      2. +14
        9 August 2022 14: 07
        Quote: fighter angel
        This should have been done yesterday!
        Instead of "tank biathlon", "aviation darts", "sport army" and other stupid show-windows!!!

        Do you think that if you abandon the show, then immediately the shopping centers will turn into factories again and the production of weapons will increase significantly? The entire system of power and management needs to be changed.
        1. -1
          9 August 2022 19: 54
          If shopping centers turn into factories, then the howl will also rise, give us shops! We want to dress up! It was already passed
          1. +1
            10 August 2022 02: 00
            Do you really think that if new factories appear, you will have nothing to ... dress in?
        2. 0
          15 August 2022 09: 31
          And you see the root! Agree absolutely!
      3. -1
        9 August 2022 20: 23
        In general, this is not a stupid window dressing, but still an exercise for the crews of military equipment.
        1. 0
          15 August 2022 09: 30
          Do you know how much time and effort in parts goes to "tankobiathlonism"? How many crews drive, check, select, how many fuck the brains and fray the nerves of all the services of the unit? To select only one or two crews, which are likely to be sintered already at competitive selections? Do you know how much time, money, resources are spent on this? With much greater efficiency for the same time, it was possible to conduct large-scale exercises of this unit with a forced march, access to the training ground and live firing! But this is not, although it is BATTLE TRAINING! And it matters now more than ever! And "biathlon" is an ordinary military show, ostentatious and stupid, because it HAS NOTHING TO DO with REAL BATTLE TRAINING!
      4. 0
        14 August 2022 22: 25
        Preparing people is more important than buying a prodigy.
        1. +1
          15 August 2022 09: 34
          Preparing PEOPLE! That's right, a large number of people in the tank troops, and not 2-3 exemplary crews for the "tank biathlon"!
          1. +1
            15 August 2022 10: 34
            Quote: fighter angel
            Preparing PEOPLE! That's right, a large number of people in the tank troops, and not 2-3 exemplary crews for the "tank biathlon"!

            Dozens and hundreds of crews are preparing and participating in the competition before these 2-3 are selected from all. Numerous competitions were held in the Soviet army, and no one believed that this did not contribute to the improvement of combat training. In addition, these "shows" promote the promotion of military service and attract young people into its ranks.
            1. -1
              15 August 2022 10: 40
              In the Soviet Army, combat training was in the first place, and only then, all sorts of competitions. Now - everything is turned upside down, exactly the opposite! First the show, and then, if time remains, some combat training. Or I'm wrong?
              1. 0
                15 August 2022 10: 54
                Quote: fighter angel
                First the show, and then, if time remains, some combat training

                Well, you already turned it down. Teachings are still ongoing. You just try to see the bad in everything.
                1. 0
                  15 August 2022 11: 13
                  As our chef says: "The main thing in our business is this very REALISM!" Seriously, I would be glad to be wrong and see the good, but there are a lot of negative examples in many parts, unfortunately. It’s just that there, the father commanders, trying to curry favor, and knowing about the weakness “at the top” for precisely such events, they focus on this, wanting to bend over, report and then jump up ... And their combat training goes according to the residual principle. Such things still exist. Alas.
                  1. 0
                    15 August 2022 12: 39
                    If we talk about realism, then you need to see both good and bad. And you have some kind of filter put on the good, passing only the bad. hi
          2. 0
            18 August 2022 15: 27
            Without mass training, there will be no 2-3 exemplary ones. After all, their take away gotovyih, well, and then a little adjusted to the condition. Out of a thousand.
    6. Two
      +2
      9 August 2022 13: 07
      hi With the harness time is already too much! But you also have to learn how to drive...
    7. -6
      9 August 2022 13: 11
      Will it fly to Sicily or to Glasgow? - then everything is fine.
      If not, pardon my indignation.
    8. +12
      9 August 2022 13: 13
      I apologize in advance for a possibly stupid question, just far from the aircraft industry.
      Why are all these trials taking so long? For years. Here, even the mentioned period of time. From May to the end of the year. This is conventionally 240 days or 5760 hours. All this time, what do the personnel involved in the work on the product do? Well, it doesn’t move in slow-mo mode, like in salidol? Or something objective? For example, does the metal need to cool down, demagnetize, etc.? And this lasts for weeks, you can’t deceive physics. It’s just that when they announce the timing of the tests, the first flight, when it’s in series, it’s already some 2030-40s. Why?
      1. +13
        9 August 2022 13: 38
        The question is correctly posed. The impression is that the process is more important than the result (and slowly, if possible, fuck it).
        1. +1
          9 August 2022 20: 04
          The Turkish company "Baykar Makina", engaged in the production auto parts, belongs to the Bayraktar family. The middle son, Selcuk Bayraktar, was fond of aircraft modeling and studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, around 2005 he develops the first reconnaissance drone "Bayraktar Mini", coolly received by the Turkish army, but after improvements purchased in small quantities. In 2007, Selcuk dropped out of his dissertation, returned to Turkey, assembled a team, and in 2009 rolled out the Bayraktar TB1, which existed in two copies. TB2 was the family's first mass-produced creation.
          The first flight took place in 2014.

          In the fall of 2020, the TB2S model was introduced, operating through the Turksat geostationary communication system.

          In October 2020, the Canadian company Bombardier, which owns the Austrian Rotax, supplied Turkey with embargo on engines, at the same time Canada banned the export to Turkey of Wescam optoelectronic stations (two cameras, a range finder, a guidance laser and a rotary suspension). This didn’t hit the bayraktars much - already in the fall of 2021, drones began to come out with Turkish engines and cameras.
      2. +2
        9 August 2022 13: 59
        I have a friend who works at the Carriage Design Bureau. About 15 years ago, he told me that the design of the car was being done by the designer. Then they start stuffing virtual electrics, plumbing and so on into it. Electricians use standard components. Suddenly it turns out that they cannot mount them and the car needs to be redrawn. Then when the electricians make friends with the car, the plumbers come and it turns out that they cannot do something, because the electricians laid their cables in the wrong place. And then the firemen will come and someone else. Maybe I misunderstood something, but the general meaning is something like this. It seems that a lot of new design solutions have to be made in the drone, which involve not only the use of new materials, but also a change in the configuration of component parts. And this is a deeper technological cycle with the involvement of contractors.
        1. +4
          9 August 2022 18: 19
          But didn’t they try to set Lavrenty Pavlovich on these "designers"?
          1. +2
            9 August 2022 20: 37
            Quote: Taimen
            But didn’t they try to set Lavrenty Pavlovich on these "designers"?

            Where is Lavrentiy Palych? Is he in your kitchen? Release faster! laughing
      3. +5
        9 August 2022 14: 39
        Why are all these trials taking so long? For years

        Almost everyone asks this question, except for the uryakalok.
        If we compare with the states there, the Ministry of Defense places an order, for example, 100 traitors and the company will make a profit by manufacturing 100 products, they will be paid money when they hand over the traitors to the balance of the army.
        In the Russian version, the meaning of the work of the MO bundle and the manufacturer of some other, not related to the manufacture of the final product, spend money, but there is no UAV, or armature, apparently the production stage in iron is discarded as obsolete compared to stupid Americans.
        1. +1
          9 August 2022 15: 54
          Compared to the states

          When compared with the states, everything is the same there, they pay separately for development, and separately for serial production.

          for example, the F-22 was developed for 13 years, from technical specifications to the first flight
          and then there were 3 more years of testing, before the start of mass production
        2. 0
          12 August 2022 11: 22
          Well, yes, your message is that in the states everything is smart, not like we have bast shoes here?))
          Let's see a couple of examples, shall we?
          in such wonderful states where smoothies and everything is so smart Built slop ships of the coastal zone, three years later they are ready to write them off, 3,2 billion dollars have been spent. This is a cut of the dough, isn't it? Why is the project so unsuccessful then? After all, they are all so efficient there?
          They built beautiful Western models of the Zumwalt called a wunderwaffle on paper, designed a miracle of Yudo for lasers or railguns there and homing shells, there is a ship, expensive to build, expensive to maintain and the shells are expensive, the tests failed a couple, but then they seemed to fix something, but it wasn’t a cake .
          Fu 35 was so advertised that wah wah is a peach plane, but it turned out to be raw)) a bunch of planes with children's sores have already been produced))) This is super-efficient in terms of management in terms of the staff, Chubais just dreams of such a cut of the dough)))
          Well, how do you feel about normal tests now?? Do you have any questions for our MO?
      4. -2
        9 August 2022 15: 50
        Why are all these trials taking so long? For years.

        to correct the main shortcomings and start up the series without childhood diseases
      5. +4
        9 August 2022 20: 31
        Quote: Hindu
        Why are all these trials taking so long?

        It happens that during tests such problems are revealed that it is necessary to redesign individual components and assemblies according to a new one. And resource tests. You need to find out how long this device will last and what resource to assign to the entire structure and each unit. You can't do that in ten flights.
      6. +2
        10 August 2022 02: 06
        Quote: Hindu
        Why are all these trials taking so long? For years.

        They didn't have engines. They waited until the Germans developed them for us - a line for all categories of UAVs, then until a plant in Russia was built for these aircraft diesels. Right now, the engines seem to have gone slowly - the UAVs have also begun to rise into the air. There's also "Altius" in line. It is already heavy - from 1,2 to 2 tons with a carrying capacity. Such a container with a radar will already pull, and it will take weapons like an attack helicopter.
      7. 0
        10 August 2022 17: 28
        Documents are approved). And the documents need to lie down.
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    10. +5
      9 August 2022 13: 14
      Proe ... is everything that is possible in drones. And the sea flew away. They thought that having nuclear weapons, nothing else was needed. Dumb. But it turned out that the war could be different.
      1. +1
        11 August 2022 10: 14
        It’s easy and quick to make a glider in almost any barn .. And longer .. It’s not even worth taking on a modern engine already in the barn .. Electronic stuffing, it is produced by us and again BUT .. everything from the exclusive is scheduled for years to come simply because it is either piece or small-scale. Therefore, decisions made according to the Syrian experience will only begin to have an effect by the year 23-24
    11. +6
      9 August 2022 13: 14
      The first flight this year, whether it will go into series, who knows when, they wrote that the factories for the production of shock reconnaissance UAVs switched to 3 shifts, the question arises where then our drones are shock drones and precisely in mass use, in general, questions, questions, questions.
      1. +2
        10 August 2022 02: 09
        Quote: Murmur 55
        the question is where then our drones are drums and it is in mass use

        So only this year we have the only one like this - "Orion" went into series. I think the assembly production cycle is about six months +, so only now the first production samples are probably arriving. The plant for their release was handed over at the end of last year.
    12. 0
      9 August 2022 13: 16
      Air bomb? Are the drones ready for dive bombing like the Stuka?
      1. +2
        10 August 2022 02: 11
        Quote: Liao
        Are the drones ready for dive bombing like the Stuka?

        Not . stop
        But they will be able to send a KAB \ UAB or a rocket. Yes
    13. +5
      9 August 2022 13: 17
      Three LMURs can be loaded. Meanwhile, yesterday there was information that our UAV complexes would be presented at a military exhibition, how is this to be understood !?
    14. +3
      9 August 2022 13: 17
      Something about Altair is not a rumor or a spirit, are they still sawing or have they cut everything?
      1. 0
        9 August 2022 13: 27
        Do you mean Altius-RU? News from 2021.

        .Finally, the problem with the engines is also solved. Now the heavy reconnaissance and strike drone "Altius-RU" will fly on the latest domestic power plants VK800-V, developed by the Design Bureau. Klimov". It is worth noting that our units, having the same takeoff power of 800 hp, are superior to the "German" in terms of "dry" design and manufacturability.

        It is reported that by the end of next year, the Russian Aerospace Forces will receive 18 newest "Altius", and later the military will receive another 50 of these machines.

        https://topcor.ru/20315-rossijskij-bpla-altius-ru-obnuljaet-mnogoletnee-liderstvo-amerikanskogo-zhneca.html
        1. +4
          9 August 2022 13: 35
          As far as I know, the engine for Altius is planned to be VK 800C, not VK 800V. And this engine will go into production only in 2024. That is, Altius will definitely not fly to the NWO. Well, the confirmation of my words is that it’s been like 8 months of this year, and not a single altius has yet been produced
          1. +3
            9 August 2022 13: 56
            It depends on how long this SVO will last. If at the current pace, then it may be in time.
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    15. -2
      9 August 2022 13: 17
      New shockproof waterproof drone.
    16. -9
      9 August 2022 13: 21
      A good model, but initially it is a dead end of development. With such a ceiling, any Stinger will knock down. Drones should be equipped with a jet engine to increase the ceiling and, most importantly, with reference to satellite control, to increase the range. This is the future.
      1. +2
        9 August 2022 15: 31
        Quote from Eva Star
        With such a ceiling, any Stinger will knock down.

        fool
        Stinger and similar MANPADS have a maximum height of about 5 km.
        Quote from Eva Star
        Drones should be equipped with a jet engine to increase the ceiling and, most importantly, with reference to satellite control, to increase the range. This is the future.

        The ceiling depends on the altitude of the engine and not on its type of construction. A jet engine with a weak compressor cannot operate at high altitude. And an old piston with a good / double ++ turbocharger - maybe.
        Tethering to a satellite will be useless in the future, because, due to the war, debris in orbit will be catastrophic. And it’s easier to raise a repeater aircraft, which can always fly at altitudes up to 30 km.
    17. +6
      9 August 2022 13: 28
      If Stalin were alive, then Oleg Shilov would immediately receive the necessary acceleration ...
      1. +6
        9 August 2022 13: 41
        Elephant hi, there the entire military-industrial complex, heavy and light industry, all research institutes, would receive SUCH an acceleration that mom do not cry.
      2. -2
        9 August 2022 13: 51
        And some who would not sit in the Internet, but would wave a pick in the norlag ..
        1. -3
          9 August 2022 15: 40
          So immediately the liberals would have diminished - otherwise Russia is ugly blamed.
    18. +1
      9 August 2022 13: 35
      What are these turboprops? winked
      1. +3
        9 August 2022 15: 06
        You wanted turbo nuts?
    19. +1
      9 August 2022 13: 55
      Let flight tests begin, not announce them.
      Indeed, in addition to flight, a lot of things need to be calibrated and tested, and our fighters already need a car.
    20. According to Russian tradition, the promise is expected for three years.
    21. -2
      9 August 2022 14: 21
      Quote: akropin
      I have a friend who works at the Carriage Design Bureau. About 15 years ago, he told me that the design of the car was being done by the designer. Then they start stuffing virtual electrics, plumbing and so on into it. Electricians use standard components. Suddenly it turns out that they cannot mount them and the car needs to be redrawn. Then when the electricians make friends with the car, the plumbers come and it turns out that they cannot do something, because the electricians laid their cables in the wrong place. And then the firemen will come and someone else. Maybe I misunderstood something, but the general meaning is something like this. It seems that a lot of new design solutions have to be made in the drone, which involve not only the use of new materials, but also a change in the configuration of component parts. And this is a deeper technological cycle with the involvement of contractors.

      And this can not be called sabotage with a businesslike look? You can improve endlessly. And we say that the best is the enemy of the good.
    22. -1
      9 August 2022 16: 15
      Quote from Johnson Smithson
      Why are all these trials taking so long? For years.

      to correct the main shortcomings and start up the series without childhood diseases

      This is clear. The question was why did it take so long?
    23. +2
      9 August 2022 18: 56
      Hm. There are two sentences in the text in which there are circumstances of time. "in the near future" and "earlier, May was called the start of flight tests." In my opinion, neither one nor the other is "named the date of the first flight."
      ... in the Moscow Region they will continue to wait for the drone next year - this is the only thesis that I took out of the filing. A deplorable certainty.
      1. 0
        9 August 2022 20: 31
        there are circumstances of time. "soon"

        and we have everything in the "present imperfect" passing into the "uncertain future" ... :)
        those. when something passes into the state of "real perfect" - it is everywhere already "past" ...
    24. 0
      9 August 2022 19: 45
      Quote: Genry
      You wanted turbo nuts?

      TurboBOLT. laughing
    25. +1
      9 August 2022 20: 46
      Quote from: neworange88
      It depends on how long this SVO will last

      It is still unknown what will happen after.
    26. +1
      10 August 2022 09: 11
      Unfortunately, the word long-term construction has already become familiar to everything breakthrough in technology. First, they declare a technological miracle that has no analogues and name the period of its manufacture, and then every year this period is pushed back and the more fanfare, the longer this period. I will not list all the fanfare, the list is long.
    27. 0
      10 August 2022 14: 07
      He was already too late for this war. And the next it will be junk.
    28. -2
      11 August 2022 08: 30
      How much does Kronstadt make a drone? And so in everything, diesel passenger car, but we can’t make our own car. There is no personal responsibility. Some talking shops from Putin. Necessary. We will provide. Where - Ivanov was appointed responsible for drones and will be held responsible for failure to comply until .... Putin is good for everyone, but does not pull in a difficult situation. Either Lenin is to blame for him, then Western partners. We had such a tsar - Alexander II, an under-reformer, here Putin is one to one.
    29. 0
      11 August 2022 10: 00
      "A good spoon for dinner." In a series will go in how many years? But despite the grumbling - in any case, good news, you need to gain experience in design and production, otherwise the gap will only increase.

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