S-70 "Okhotnik" UCAV

The first prototype demonstrator of the #Russian heavy reconnaissance and strike unmanned aerial vehicle S-70 on the Hunter theme at the 929th V.P. Chkalov State Flight Test Center of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation in Akhtubinsk.
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https://twitter.com/5thSu/status/1330935081830150154

Tai Hai Chen wrote:Wars in Syria, Libya, Azerbaijan have clearly shown there is no future for manned combat aircraft. Gone are the days of world wars. All future wars will be fought by proxy in small scale. Drone will rule the skies in future wars. Fortunately Russian MOD taking drones seriously and focus entirely on drones for future wars.

Tai Hai Chen wrote:Gone are the days of world wars

GarryB wrote:You have to remember with those satellite photos... we only see what they allow us to see.

If they wanted to keep it all super secret they could build a big shed with three walls and a roof so nothing in side was visible at all.

Everything that is really secret would be kept inside all the time... and only brought out and flown on heavily cloudy days or when there are no spy satellites due over.

Scorpius wrote:...In fact, I suspect that these trucks in the picture are specially placed to create a scale. Look at the C-70: it's f*cking huge, damn it.

PapaDragon wrote:

Scorpius wrote:...In fact, I suspect that these trucks in the picture are specially placed to create a scale. Look at the C-70: it's f*cking huge, damn it.

Now that you mentioned it it really is f*cking huge, like massive

This thing will be hauling bombs over the continent like Clydesdale

Hole wrote:The S-70 is thicker then a MiG-21 which could travel at M2+. You don´t need a thin profile to travel at high subsonic speeds.

Isos wrote:

KoTeMoRe wrote:

Tai Hai Chen wrote:Wars in Syria, Libya, Azerbaijan have clearly shown there is no future for manned combat aircraft. Gone are the days of world wars. All future wars will be fought by proxy in small scale. Drone will rule the skies in future wars. Fortunately Russian MOD taking drones seriously and focus entirely on drones for future wars.

The war in Karabakh would have been over the first week if someone had flown its Migs to shoot down the TB-2 fleet.
Drones are the future for a boatload of reasons, just NOT the ones you mention.

Actually azeri have S-300PMU2 and belorussian modernized Osa systems. Old mig-29 would have fallen from the skies pretty fast.

If it was russian mig-29SMT and russian support then yes but if it was for exemple syrian mig-29 they would be easy targets.

Armenia has no air force.

LMFS wrote:Source: strike drone "Okhotnik" first tested with missiles

Tests of the combat unmanned aviation complex Okhotnik - Russia news agency, 1920, 02.12.

MOSCOW, December 2 - RIA Novosti. For the first time, the Russian military conducted a series of flights of the Okhotnik heavy attack drone at the Ashuluk training ground in the form of a fighter-interceptor with simulated air-to-air missiles, a source in the military-industrial complex told RIA Novosti.
Prior to this, the "Okhotnik" had already performed a number of flights, but during them only its flight qualities and the operation of the main on-board systems were assessed.
"From the strip of the military airfield of the Center for Combat Training and Combat Use of the Russian Aerospace Forces at the Ashuluk training ground, several flights of the Hunter were performed with functional simulators of guided air-to-air missiles. Such missiles in the combat version are designed to destroy other aircraft," the source said agencies, noting that the tests were recent.
The source explained that the flights performed "will make it possible to assess the coupling of the drone's avionics with missile guidance systems and the lead Su-57 aircraft ."

According to the interlocutor, simulators of missiles with infrared and radar homing heads were used on the Okhotnik.
"The simulators have a body and all the electronic stuffing of the corresponding missile, but they lack the engine and warhead," the source said.

https://ria.ru/20201202/ispytaniya-1587264518.html