Russian drone will crush American F-22 and F-35

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As reported on June 28, 2018 by the agency "Interfax ", the first Russian heavy attack drone of OKB "Sukhoi" "Okhotnik" entered the final stage of ground tests. A well-informed source told "Interfax" about it.

"At the Novosibirsk Aviation Plant (NAZ, a branch of the Sukhoi company - IF), the first roll-out of the Okhotnik strike drone took place - it is undergoing ground tests on the eve of the first flight," the agency's interlocutor said.

"The first flight of the Okhotnik is expected in 2019," the source said.

In 2014, the director of the Directorate of Military Aviation Programs of the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC), ex-Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Air Force, reported on the research work carried out at the Sukhoi Design Bureau to create a heavy attack drone. Vladimir Mikhailov.

"Now work is underway, we are doing work on the Sukhoi, called the Hunter. This machine is very promising, now there is research work until 2015, with the subsequent transition to development work," Mikhailov said on the air of the radio station. Echo of Moscow ".

The characteristics of the drone under development are currently not disclosed. According to open data, its take-off weight will be 20 tons, which will make it the heaviest device of this type under development. It was reported that for the first time it will take off in 2018, and in 2020 it will be adopted.

In 2017, a photograph of the "Hunter" was disseminated on the Internet, cut from a presentation by the Russian Ministry of Defense, judging by which the device is being developed according to the "flying wing" scheme with a tricycle landing gear.

A previously informed interlocutor of Interfax reported on the testing of a heavy attack drone Altius-O weighing more than 7.5 tons, developed by the Kazan Design Bureau named after Simonov.

Deputy General Director of Techmash (part of Rostec) Alexander KochkinIn March 2018, he told Interfax that the concern had begun developing a combat load for drones, which could be both melee weapons and aerial bombs.

General Designer - UAC Vice President for Innovation Sergey Korotkov In December 2017, he told Interfax that Russia is working on the creation of attack drones that can organize themselves into groups and coordinate with each other via secure communication channels.

The development of a heavy drone was announced at the Army-2017 forum by the general director of RAC MiG Ilya Tarasenko … In November of the same year, a company representative noted that they had UAVs weighing from a ton to 15 tons in development.

RF President Vladimir Putin stated at the collegium of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation at the end of 2017 that with the implementation of the new state armament program, special emphasis will be placed on equipping troops with high-precision weapons, unmanned strike systems, as well as the latest intelligence, communications and electronic warfare systems.

The plans to equip the Russian Armed Forces with shock drones were announced in October 2017 by the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergei Shoigu … "In the near future, complexes with multifunctional unmanned aerial vehicles, capable of solving not only reconnaissance, but also strike missions, will begin to enter the Armed Forces," Shoigu said.

On the part of bmpd, we recall that, as our blog reported a year ago with reference to the publication of the "Air & Cosmos" magazine, within the framework of the "Okhotnik" research and development project, an unobtrusive unmanned aerial vehicle S-70 is being created. R&D work "Okhotnik" is carried out by PJSC "Company" Sukhoi "under the contract of the Ministry of Defense of Russia, issued on October 14, 2011. The purpose of R&D is to create an unmanned reconnaissance and strike system that would have high speed and autonomy. The S-70 UAV itself is described as a "sixth generation unmanned aerial vehicle" on the "Hunter" theme.

It was reported that the S-70 UAV demonstrator was manufactured at the Novosibirsk Aviation Plant named after V. P. Chkalov - a branch of PJSC Sukhoi Company, and the first flight of the demonstrator was previously planned for 2018. The mass of the UAV is in the range of 10-20 tons, and the maximum speed is estimated at 1000 km / h.

UAV "Okhotnik-B": Russia is creating the killer F-22 and F-35. Americans have nothing to oppose to Russian military-technological thought

Over the past decade, Western armies have emphasized their superiority over any enemy thanks to the widespread use of various drones. Mostly heavy reconnaissance and shock. Even in cinematography, surveillance shots of militants, with their subsequent destruction almost live with the help of some MQ-1 Predator, have become commonplace. In addition, the command of the American Air Force began the final decommissioning of these machines, as well as their reconnaissance modification RQ-1, as already obsolete.

The last flight of the last MQ-1 machine took place on March 9, 2018. However, under contracts with PMCs (but not on behalf of the Air Force), the Predator will still fly until December of this year. But then that's all, only the universal reconnaissance and shock MQ-9 Reaper and heavy Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk weighing 15 tons will remain in service. With the prospect of replacing them with more modern projects that are now under development.

Against this background, the Russian army looked pale. Strictly speaking, after the collapse of the USSR, she did not produce an overall impression of health, but in August 2008 it became obvious that the crisis had been overcome. True, the re-equipment and re-equipment mainly concerned the usual, albeit highly improved systems. Whereas the drone area remained one big blank spot. They simply did not exist in our country. For geopolitical reasons, the possibility of import purchases was also ruled out.

For five years, it was possible to close a critical hole in technical capabilities only in the lightest class - small tactical reconnaissance company link - battalion (weighing up to fifty kilograms and a flight range of up to five kilometers). At the moment, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation deployed 36 units and subunits of unmanned aircraft in service with about two thousand vehicles of seven types, of which five are most widespread. In fact, strictly speaking, it is more, since the designs and tactical and technical capabilities of the systems in service " Pear », « Tachyon », « Outpost », « Garnet », « Eleron-3SV"Closely resemble the most massive Russian army drone" Oralan-10".

But against the background of the image, which is well-established in the mass perception, as loitering high in the sky MQ-9 Reaper hitting a target somewhere in the Afghan mountains or the Iraqi desert it all looked pale. A kind of quick patch. The US Army Command has already talked about strategic drones, while we continued to launch "eagles" in order to look behind the wall of a neighboring house.

However, it is now becoming clear that the past years, the Russian army was engaged not only in "small forms". Russian military design bureaus are finishing work on projects that can seriously change not only the tactical, but also the operational alignment. The last two years of confirmation of the existence of new products fell like a cornucopia.

At the exhibition "MAKS-2017" the company " Kronstadt"demonstrated the Orion heavy reconnaissance aircraft weighing five tons, a wingspan of sixteen meters, an autonomy of 24 hours of continuous flight and an operating height of about seven kilometers. The list of its capabilities takes two pages in small print, from species and electronic reconnaissance, to a communications relay a mobile station for target designation and illumination. MQ-1 Predatorand reconnaissance modification MQ-9 Reaper … Given that Orion also costs 3, 3 times cheaper when purchased, and almost seven times cheaper in terms of operating costs.

Tests of the reconnaissance version have been completed, and this year it is expected to be put into service. In addition, Kronstadt announced that it had entered the final stage of work on the creation of an impact modification of the vehicle.

At the Victory Parade on May 9, 2018, the Russian army demonstrated an attack drone " Corsair"With its own weight of 200 kilograms, it provides a range of combat use of up to 200 kilometers, the solution of reconnaissance, transport and strike missions, including against heavy armored vehicles. The Corsair is equipped with the Ataka missile system and can be part of the digital battlefield thanks modules "All-Seeing Eye" and "Combat Space".

Attack drone "Corsair"

In addition, in the video report on the visit by the Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev to the Kazan Aviation Plant, a prototype of a heavy attack drone flashed among the samples of flight equipment exhibited for demonstration. " Altair". With a mass of five tons and a wingspan of 28, 5 meters, it is capable of flying at a distance of over ten thousand kilometers at operating heights of up to 12 kilometers. Autonomy without refueling in the air reaches two days. There is no exact data on the range of onboard weapons yet. but representatives of the plant speak of "practically the entire range of Russian missiles."

But the most significant leakage of information about the current state of work on the promising heavy strike apparatus "Okhotnik-B", which was rolled out at the end of June this year at the Novosibirsk aircraft plant. According to reports, the machine is based on design solutions not only for the latest fighter-bomber that has already been adopted. PAK FA (known under the designation Su-57), but also a promising long-range bomber PAK YES, work on which is still ongoing. Now "Okhotnik-B" (also known as Object S-70 within the framework of the research work "Okhotnik" of the Sukhoi Design Bureau) is undergoing ground tests. The flight inspection cycle is scheduled for 2019. Putting into service is expected by the end of 2020.

And it will be the most advanced and technically advanced strike drone in the world. With a mass of up to 20 tons, it will develop a speed of up to 1000 kilometers per hour and carry a missile and bomb load corresponding to standard fighter-bomber … In addition, unlike the MQ-9 and RQ-4, the Okhotnik-B was originally developed for operations in conditions of massive electronic countermeasures and a dense enemy air defense zone. If we talk about the categories of aviation generations popular in the West, the American MQ-9 corresponds only to the 4 ++ generation, while the Russian Okhotnik-B is a machine already sixth generations. There are no analogues to it yet.

From which we can conclude that in 2019 Russia will reach parity in the capabilities of military unmanned aircraft, and after 2020 it has every chance of surpassing the NATO armies in drones. Moreover, if the United States has been working on the topic of drones since the early 80s, and the first RQ-1 took off only in 1994, and then, out of 70 delivered to the US Air Force by the end of 2002, about forty crashed for technical reasons, Russia managed to reach the level of sixth generation machines in just seven years. Thus, the progress achieved by the defense industry and the Russian Aerospace Forces in the field of unmanned strike drones makes it possible to look with confidence in the future of Russian aviation in any theater of operations.