The heavy "Partisan" drone, which is being developed in Novosibirsk, will be mass-produced in 2024. This was announced by Anton Ryazantsev, Chairman of the Industrial Council of the NTI Center for "Technologies for Modeling and Developing New Functional Materials with Specified Properties".
There is development work on the "Partisan" heavy unmanned aerial vehicle, and in 2024 it is planned to deploy a production complex and produce 10 serial units.
The peculiarity of the "Partisan" is its hybrid power plant – electric and thermal at the same time. Thus, there are four electric motors on the wings on the left and right, which drive propellers that blow the wing. And the large marching engine is a piston engine.
Due to the propellers on the wing, the lift required for takeoff is achieved faster, so the "Partisan" does not need a long runway: the drone will be able to take off from sites measuring 50 by 50 meters. The carrying capacity of the "Partisan" is up to 1 ton, the range of body heat is up to 1 km.
