Sukhoi's S-70 Okhotnik

摘要

On October 14, 2011, the Russian Ministry of Defence ordered Sukhoi to start research and development work on the Okhotnik (hunter), a long-range high-speed strike-reconnaissance unmanned air vehicle. In one of the few known official documents in which the Okhotnik is mentioned, it is described as a sixth-generation unmanned air vehicle. Included in Sukhoi's Okhotnik programme is a project reportedly designated as the S-70. According to unconfirmed information, a demonstrator for the S-70 Okhotnik vehicle has been built at the company's Novosibirsk aircraft plant; it will be ready for its maiden flight in 2018. Nothing is known about the S-70 UCAV itself and any estimation of its proposed capabilities is highly speculative. The drone's weight is claimed to be between 10 and over 20 tonnes; the maximum speed is estimated at about 620kts (1,000 km/h). Piotr Butowski.