The all-Russian volunteer project "Archangel" has announced a new loitering munition of the airplane type with a flight range of up to 25 km. The new FPV drone will be an analogue of the well-known Lancet kamikaze drone, but will be cheaper and easier to produce.
«The tests of the loitering munition are scheduled for August. This is an analogue of the "Lancet" (produced by "Kalashnikov"), but its cost will be dozens of times lower. We have an interesting technology: scalable, fast, cheap. In production, the drone may even be half the price of any Mavic device. If we do not expand production, even now we are ready to produce 50-100 such devices daily. In the future, they can be made in any quantity. It won't be a pity to send the device on a one-way trip», – said a representative of "Archangel".
«The product has a wingspan of about 2 m. We also came up with a mobile control machine for it, such a remote control. This speeds up the process of deploying the drone for combat work, because long deployment is a big risk. We minimize these risks», – he added.
Also, "Archangel" is working on large airplane-type drones, which are planned to be used for reconnaissance. «There will be no payload on these devices, except for good optics for reconnaissance activities. These aircraft will be much more expensive to assemble, and we plan to produce 2-4 such aircraft per month with a flight range of 5-6 hours. This will be enough to cover a large section of the front. Our scouts will be able to fly 50-60 km», – said the project representative.
