The first flight of the heavy stealth drone "Hunter" development company "Dry" will be held before the end of 2018 of the year, TASS transmits a message of its source in the Russian defense industry.
According to the interlocutor, heavy work distal drone are at the final stage. In particular, almost ready first prototype, which will start the test flights later this year.
Work on the creation of a "Hunter" is Novosibirsk Plant named after Chkalov, located in a part of PJSC "Dry".
Russian Ministry of Defense issued a contract to develop a UAV 2011 year. Layout of UAV for ground tests was established in 2014 year. UAV weight - 20 tonnes. It was created on a "flying wing" with "Stealth" technology. Equipped with jet propulsion. Estimated speed - up 1 thousands of kilometers per hour.
According to the expert Denis Fedulova, speech, perhaps, It is the development of UAV, similar to western samples such as a X-47B from Northrop Grumman company or companies of Phantom Ray Boeing - both built according to the "flying wings" and are takeoff weight 20 and 16 tonnes respectively.
Fedulov noted, that the "Hunter", likely, designed to solve the same problems, that the Western drones: defeat enemy air defense, its points of contact and control.
The expert added, that the first flights of the mentioned US drone held back in 2011 year, However, in a series they have not yet gone out to the imperfection of technology, relating to work offline.
