A Russian experimental design bureau has completed the modernization of a Yak-52 training aircraft into a drone fighter. The design is based on the experience of creating the Yak-52B light attack aircraft from the Afghan War era.
The modernized aircraft is called Yak-52B2. It can carry up to 90 kilograms of payload under each wing. The prototype has been 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 targeting information, as well as a modern flight and navigation system that allows it to fly at night and in adverse weather conditions.
With this set of equipment, the Yak-52B2 is capable of engaging both large aircraft-type UAVs, such as the An-196 "Lyuty", and light aircraft converted into drones. The drone fighter has an airworthiness certificate and is undergoing debugging of its onboard equipment.
Earlier, www1.ru reported that footage of an export Su-34 fighter-bomber in an unusual camouflage has appeared.
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