RUSSIAN ARMY GETS NEW DRONES!!!

por **Ricardo_333** el Vie Sep 05, 2008 1:21 pm

Sep. 05, 2008

Russian Army Gets New Drones

The Vega Radio Engineering Corp. has begun delivery of Tipchak unpiloted recognizance complexes to the Russian armed forces, Vega general director Vladimir Verba told Interfax. The first complex will be on duty this year and may be used in “hot spots.”

The Tipchak complex was developed by the Luch Design Bureau in Rybinsk. It is intended for recognizance at any time of day with the goal of the discovery, recognition determination of the coordinates of a target in real time within a range of 40 km. from its launch point.

Every complex consists of six drones, a transport and launch vehicle, antenna, guidance apparatus and maintenance equipment. The drone is launched by a pneumatic catapult and lands with the use of a parachute. The 50-kg. unit has a piston that is able to propel it at speeds up to 55 km. per hour. It is capable of flights lasting up to two hours. It carries a high-resolution camera that working in normal and infrared light.
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por **Ricardo_333** el Vie Sep 05, 2008 1:23 pm

A Russian TU-300 drone

por **Ricardo_333** el Vie Sep 05, 2008 1:26 pm

Photo: Dmitry Dukhanin

The Almaz Heavy Industry plant in Reutovo, outside Moscow

por **Ricardo_333** el Vie Sep 05, 2008 1:28 pm

Photo: Alexander Miridonov

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev (center), Minister of Defense Anatoly Serdyukov (left) and commander of the strategic missile forces Nikolay Solovets

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