Russia Reveals Loyal Wingman Concept

摘要

The Kronstadt Co. is building on the success of Russia's first modern large unmanned aircraft system Inokhodets-BLA (Orion), revealing a full-scale mockup of its loyal wingman concept aircraft as well as its ambitions to expand in the large UAV market. Russia's foray into modern UAV development began long after that of the U.S. and other countries-and after the war with Georgia in 2008 revealed Russia's military weaknesses. Moscow has since developed and started production of the Orion, the Russian equivalent of the General Atomics Aeronautical Systems MQ-1 Predator. Behind it, multiple projects are in the pipeline that could be exported to nations that do not want to buy aircraft from Europe, Israel or the U.S.