The first flight of the hunter is
expected in 2019, said the Source. About the ongoing research in the OKB Sukhoy research on the creation of heavy
drone in 2014.
Said the director of the
directorate of military aircraft
programs of the united aircraft
corporation UAC ex-commander of the
russian air force Vladimir Mikhailov, now the work is underway we are doing
work on the suhoy hunter. This machine is
very promising, now there is a research
work to 2015 with the subsequent
transition to experimental design work, Mikhailov said on the radio station echo
of moscow.
The characteristics of the developed uav
were not disclosed. According to open
data its takeoff weight will be 20 tons
which will make it the heaviest of the
developed devices of this type. It was reported that for the first time
it will take off in 2018 and in 2020
will be adopted.
In 2017 on the internet a photograph of
the hunter was seen cut out from the
presentation of the ministry of defense
of russia, judging by which the device is
developed according to the flying wing. The degree of readiness of the first
sample of the device from a photograph
cut from a presentation by the russian
ministry of defense is difficult to
determine, since it is not clear whether
the onboard equipment is already
installed on the device. The purpose of the research is to create
an unmanned reconnaissance and strike
system that would have a high speed in
autonomy.
Hunter is characterized as unmanned
aerial sixth generation machine. It is
known only that in the hunter B, it is
planned to use the technologies of the
prospective heavy fighter T-50 Pak Fa. The work on the research work hunter is
carried out by PJSC Company Suhoy under
the contract of the russian defense
ministry, issued on october 14 2011.
Other sources report officially the
development of the impactless drone
under the project hunter b began in
october 2012 when the work of the
companies suhoy and mig was ordered by
the russian defense ministry. It was
reported that the demonstrator UAVs 70
was produced at the novosibirsk aviation
plant shkalav, branch of PJSC company Sukhoy. It is expected that flight tests of the
new device will begin in 2018 and in
2020 it will go into service.
The mass of the UAVis in the range of
10 to 20 tons. Based on the data on the takeoff weight
it can be assumed that this drone will
be close in its characteristics to the
american drone X-47B development Northrop Grumman. It can fly at high subsonic speeds. Operating within a radius of 4000
kilometers, carrying a diverse target
load including a shock with a mass of up
to two tons.
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