MOSCOW. Dec 10 (Interfax-AVN) - Russia will have ship-launched unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) by 2020, naval aviation chief Maj. Gen. Igor Kozhin said.
"At the initial stage [until 2020] the existing fleet of aircraft will be actively upgraded. We are also talking about replacing special-aviation aircraft with new models and supplying combat forces with deck-based fighter aircraft (MiG-29K/KUB), deck-based attack and transport helicopters (Ka-52K), and deck-based unmanned aerial vehicles," Kozhin told the newspaper Krasnaya Zvezda.
Over 100 aircraft are due to be delivered to the Navy by 2020, he said, without giving the specifications or names of the new drones.