KUBINKA, Moscow region. Aug 14 (Interfax) - Rostec plans to test the Okhotnik unmanned aerial vehicle in 2024, Vladimir Artyakov, the company's first deputy head, said in an interview with the Zvezda television channel.
"The Okhotnik drone's test trials are due to be held next year, and subsequently, we must start serial production," Artyakov said.
As Interfax reported previously, since 2011, the Sukhoi company (part of the Rostec-controlled United Aircraft Corporation) has been working on the S-70 Okhotnik, a new heavy strike drone with a long flight duration, the first to be made in Russia. The first Okhotnik test model took to the sky on August 3, 2019. The second such drone, one with a flat jet nozzle, which reduces the aerial vehicle's radar visibility, was rolled out of a workshop of the Novosibirsk Aircraft Plant in December 2021