" Russia presents the Chirok drone" Topic
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Tango01 | 11 Jul 2014 12:28 p.m. PST |
"Russia's United Instrument-Making Corporation, a Rostec subsidiary, presented the unique and innovative Chirok drone at the Innoprom international technology exhibition, the press service of the state corporation reported. "The innovative technology, air-cushion landing system, allows the drone to take off without an air strip. This technology is absolutely unique. The drone is able to take off from soft soil, water, marshy terrain and loose snow. It can also land on these surfaces, whereas other aircraft can neither take off from nor land on them," the press service said. The drone model presented at Innoprom has already been tested in Zhukovsky, a city in Moscow Region that hosts the MAKS air show. The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) has no analogues in the world, and other models with air-cushion landing systems are not in mass production…"
Full article here link This drone has evil-looking! Amicalement Armand |
15mm and 28mm Fanatik | 11 Jul 2014 3:48 p.m. PST |
Looks like a beached whale. |
EMPERORS LIBRARY | 11 Jul 2014 10:33 p.m. PST |
It is only a scale model at the moment but definitely an interesting concept. |
kidbananas | 12 Jul 2014 5:29 a.m. PST |
Looks like a GEV from OGRE. |
Mako11 | 12 Jul 2014 2:18 p.m. PST |
Rather cute, and tubby. Perhaps more useful for landing than takeoff. Do Russians not know how to toss small aircraft/drones into the air? Perhaps they need to take up baseball, or football (the kind with the oblong pigskin, that is thrown by hand [not the round ball]). |
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