Russian Minister of Industry and Trade discovers new domestically-built Helios UAV.

On August 17, 2020, Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation Denis Manturov visited the Kronstadt pilot plant on the territory of the V.V. Chernysheva.

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Full-size mock-up of the large unmanned aerial vehicle "Helios" being developed by the Kronshtadt Group in the workshop of the JSC "Moscow Machine-Building Enterprise named after VV Chernyshev." (Picture source: Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation)

At the production site, the head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade of Russia was shown the diversification of technologies developed for civilian use, technologies for creating parts of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), and also presented drones "Orion", "Sirius", "Thunder", "Helios". In addition, during the visit, the universal ground part of the complexes with UAVs was presented: the take-off and landing control system, information processing, artificial intelligence technologies.

Model of the large unmanned aerial vehicle with vertical takeoff and landing of the Fregat tiltrotor scheme being developed by the Kronshtadt Group in the workshop of the VV Chernyshev Moscow Machine-Building Enterprise JSC. (Picture source: Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation)

The Minister was also shown digitalization solutions presented at the Element Group's stand: a project for labelling alcoholic beverages with radio frequency tags for additional protection of special and excise stamps, as well as solutions for the digitalization of forestry - mechanisms to control and counteract illegal logging by creating a traceability system and transportation of timber in Russia.

Minister of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation Denis Manturov visited the Kronstadt pilot plant on the territory of the V.V. Chernysheva. (Picture source: Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation)