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Defense News - Russia |
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012, 06:30 PM | |||
Russia allocates $160 million fo development of three types of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles UAV | |||
Russian
Helicopters has received 5 billion rubles ($160 mln) from the federal
budget for the development of three types of unmanned aerial vehicles
(UAV). After charging that smaller domestic developers wasted public funds
- and pointedly purchasing Israeli drones for military trials - the Defense
Ministry has switched to a big holding with sufficient capacity to develop
and produce indigenous UAVs. |
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Scale model of Ka-135 Unmanned Aerial vehicle (Photo credit Vitaly Kuzmin) |
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According
to the Gazeta.ru portal, the company has been contracted by the Russian
Defense Ministry to develop light-, medium-, and heavy-weight rotary UAVs
for reconnaissance, strike and transportation purposes. |
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