The Russian experimental design bureau has completed the modernization of the Yak-52 training aircraft into a drone fighter. The design was based on the experience of creating the Yak-52B light attack aircraft from the Afghan War era.
The modernized aircraft is called the Yak-52B2. It can carry up to 90 kilograms of payload under each wing. The prototype was equipped with a circular scan radar station with ground and air scan modes, a weather radar, and a semi-automatic 12-gauge carbine.
The fighter is equipped with an onboard computer that generates, among other things, targeting information, as well as a modern flight and navigation system that allows it to fly at night and in difficult weather conditions.
With this set, the Yak-52B2 is capable of hitting both large aircraft-type UAVs, such as the An-196 "Lyuty", and light aircraft converted into drones. The drone fighter has a certificate of airworthiness and is undergoing debugging of onboard equipment.
Earlier, www1.ru reported that footage of the export fighter-bomber Su-34 in an unusual camouflage has appeared.
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