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RUSSIA AIRCRAFT MAKER SUKHOI TO BUILD STRIKE UAVS
November 13, 2012 - 12:18 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Russian aircraft maker Sukhoi is to focus on
creating reconnaissance and strike unmanned air vehicles (UAV)
in the near future, United Aircraft Corporation President Mikhail
Pogosyan said at the Zhuhai Airshow China exhibition on Tuesday,
Nov 13, according to RIA Novosti.
Sukhoi, which has historically designed fighter and ground attack
aircraft but now also builds some civil aircraft, is part of UAC,
a holding covering most of Russia's aircraft industry.
"UAVs are a strategic avenue for development for UAC, and Sukhoi
is focused on creating reconnaissance and strike UAVs. But our firm
plans on this are in the future," he said.
Previous UAVs created for Russia's amed forces have been produced by
Tranzas and Sokol, in addition to Sukhoi.
Sukhoi has designs on its website for a series of unmanned aircraft
known as Zond, optimised for the carriage of surveillance and
synthetic-aperture radars and electro-optical sensors.
In 2011, Sukhoi won a contract to develop a heavy strike UAV with
a mass of around 20 tons, Fedutinov said. Another Russian fighter
aircraft design bureau, RAC MiG, will also be involved in this program,
MiG's CEO Sergei Korotkov told Russian media earlier this year.
MiG showed a demonstrator strike UAV design known as Skat at the MAKS
airshow in Moscow in 2007.
St. Petersburg-based Tranzas and Kazan-based Sokol won a tender in
October 2011 to create two UAV systems with a mass of one ton and
five tons respectively.
November 13, 2012 - 12:18 AMT
PanARMENIAN.Net - Russian aircraft maker Sukhoi is to focus on
creating reconnaissance and strike unmanned air vehicles (UAV)
in the near future, United Aircraft Corporation President Mikhail
Pogosyan said at the Zhuhai Airshow China exhibition on Tuesday,
Nov 13, according to RIA Novosti.
Sukhoi, which has historically designed fighter and ground attack
aircraft but now also builds some civil aircraft, is part of UAC,
a holding covering most of Russia's aircraft industry.
"UAVs are a strategic avenue for development for UAC, and Sukhoi
is focused on creating reconnaissance and strike UAVs. But our firm
plans on this are in the future," he said.
Previous UAVs created for Russia's amed forces have been produced by
Tranzas and Sokol, in addition to Sukhoi.
Sukhoi has designs on its website for a series of unmanned aircraft
known as Zond, optimised for the carriage of surveillance and
synthetic-aperture radars and electro-optical sensors.
In 2011, Sukhoi won a contract to develop a heavy strike UAV with
a mass of around 20 tons, Fedutinov said. Another Russian fighter
aircraft design bureau, RAC MiG, will also be involved in this program,
MiG's CEO Sergei Korotkov told Russian media earlier this year.
MiG showed a demonstrator strike UAV design known as Skat at the MAKS
airshow in Moscow in 2007.
St. Petersburg-based Tranzas and Kazan-based Sokol won a tender in
October 2011 to create two UAV systems with a mass of one ton and
five tons respectively.