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Kronshtadt from Russia plans to manufacture drone with a weight up to eight tons in 2025 TASS 10810162.
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Defence & Security News - Russia
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A Russian cargo vertical takeoff and landing drone with a weight of up to eight tons can be created in 2025 provided the necessary budget appropriations, Deputy Director General of Kronshtadt Company Vladimir Voronov told TASS.
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 Dozor UAVs family manufactured by the Russian Company Kronshtadt |
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The Russian company Kronshtadt is one of a number of high-tech companies that work in the market of armaments and military techniques. The Company is also involved in the technologies software and R&D facilities to the market of UAV commercial and governmental usage.
Kronshtadt has already developed the heavy Dozor-3 UAV with a lift-off weight of 600 kg and a payload of 100 kg. The company is currently working on the civilian version of the one-ton Frigate drone. The design was first demonstrated at MAKS-2015 air show. The drone in metal has to appear in 2020. "We created and tested the flight-research model of Frigate. The feasibility of the chosen aerodynamic scheme has been confirmed. The results will be used to build a 500-kg drone which will take 18-24 months. Then a one-ton drone will be created in 2020. By 2025 it is quite realistic to build on its basis a drone of seven-eight tons," Voronov said. Thus the Frigate will be used for a whole line of vertical takeoff and landing drones capable of high-speed and long-range flights. The biggest of them will have a wing span of 20 meters. "According to our calculations, it can fly up to two tons of payload non-stop to a distance of 2.5-3 thousand kilometers with a speed of up to 500 kilometers per hour," he said. The Kronshtadt has sufficient technological experience in creating heavy drones which can also be used in the oil and gas industry. "However the available funds for perspective research and design are limited. The creation pace of a Russian off-aerodrome deployment drone will depend on budget financing," Voronov said without elaborating how much the project would cost. He added "much has already been done" for the ground complex, onboard equipment and software for the heavy Frigate. "I estimate that over a half of the work volume in this direction has been accomplished," Voronov said. |
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