MOSCOW, 1 Sep-RIA Novosti. The Kronstadt company has signed export contracts for the supply of attack drones to countries of the far and near abroad, deliveries will begin next year, the press service of the enterprise reported on Tuesday.
Earlier, Kronstadt announced the interest of 20 countries in the procurement of Orion-E reconnaissance and strike drones. This is the first public statement about contracts for the export of Russian combat drones.
"The first few UAV complexes will be ready for shipment to foreign customers in 2022. The devices are made according to a modular scheme with an open architecture and can, at the request of customers, change the composition of equipment, target load and ground components, depending on the application conditions and tasks. These export samples will also be equipped with satellite data transmission equipment," the company's CEO Sergey Bogatikov is quoted in the message.
For the production of the first export machines at the serial plant in Dubna, components have been ordered from suppliers of the cooperation, they will be delivered to the enterprise in November to start assembly, the top manager added.
To fulfill this contract, Kronstadt took a loan of 3 billion rubles from Promsvyazbank for two years.
"Orion" belongs to the class of medium-high impact unmanned aerial vehicles of long flight duration. Its maximum take-off weight is 1150 kilograms, the cruising speed of the flight is 200 kilometers per hour, the maximum flight altitude is 7 kilometers, the device can stay in the air for up to a day. The wingspan of the drone is 16 meters, the length is 8 meters. The maximum mass of the drone's combat load is 200 kilograms.
