UAV "hunter" will fly to space, say in the Russian Federation. American experts do not believe
Journalists from eurasiantimes. com decided to find out whether the right Knuts, talking about the "space" drone. Today it is known that the "hunter" drone is equipped with a turbojet engine AL-31, which should provide a speed of 1 000 km/h and a range of 6,000 km. UAV creators also installed equipment on board, which enables exploration and observation. At the same time, the weight of the useful load, which should be understood as ammunition, is 2. 8 tons.
The Knuts claims that the "hunter" can reach outer space if new engines are installed on it, which, however, still have to be created. He also said that UAV could be paired with Su-57 fighter and even in the swarm. According to him, "Su-57 can control the switches of" hunter ", and such a combination opens great opportunities for solving strategic combat missions. " Hunter "is made in the same way as SU-57. And in Ukraine, the Su-57 aircraft decided combat Tasks and returned unnoticed.
" From the statements of Knutov, Eurasiantimes. com journalists concluded that he hinted at the opportunity to destroy large strategic goals, such as NATO command centers, with the help of SU-57, supported by "hunters". Or hints of Knutova should be regarded as follows: Su-57 and C-70 ("hunter") will be able to lay ways for large bombers such as Tu-160, TU-22 or MiG-31, on board, the cruise missiles X-101 or Hypersonic missiles "Dagger".
According to Knutov, the US had never tried to develop UAVs with similar tactical and technical characteristics, but refused the project after their engineers could not cope with their tasks. In December 2021, a drone version with a flatter nozzle was presented, and later it was announced to launch it into mass production. Serhiy Chemezov, CEO of Rostech, said this President Vladimir Putin. He also stressed that a new land management is being developed for UAV.
Later, the deputy chairman of the Board of the Russian Military-Industrial Commission Andriy Yelchaninov later stated in a separate interview that planes and drones could interact "not only with each other". The TASS publication of July 27 stated that the Russian Federation has already developed a double SO-57 to manage the switches of combat drones "Hunter" "for the defeat of air and land purposes. " But since then, the terms have been postponed twice: first for 2022, and then for 2023.
Unmanned aerial vehicles and Russian military technologies are skeptical about the "space" capabilities of the C-70 "hunter". According to him, it was initially developed as a "thunderstorm" of air defense. Yes, the Su-57 and C-70 groups will most likely be involved in the suppression of air defense. The Americans have the same concept-drones known for F-35, should be struck on air defense.
"People who are not directly related to the project are told about the S-70 space flights, and therefore they should be skeptical. I think one of the offered UAVs' hunter functions is the suppression of the air defense for which it was originally developed,"- The American expert said in an interview with Eurasian Times.