The Executive Director of the Radar mms Research and Production Association, Ivan Anziv, spoke about a new drone the company is working on. It's not a military development: the drone could be used for tasks such as firefighting, environmental monitoring, and so on.
The hydroplane drone can land not just on water, but also on snow and in the field, and it doesn't require any special infrastructure. I think it will be useful for tasks such as air delivery, environmental monitoring, monitoring of extended objects, firefighting. According to calculations, if we take a payload of up to 800 kg, the time in the air is 15 hours.
Ivan Anziv
The top manager reported that the maximum speed of the new product will be 200 km/h. The full premiere of the device will take place in 2024. The drone tests will be conducted at the hydroaerodrome in Nizhny Novgorod.