PressTV... Russia and China are developing a new drone that uses a powerful projectile of a multiple launch rocket system for deployment to battlefields as far as 90 kilometers away.
The reconnaissance drone, the first of its kind ever, is being developed by Russian and Chinese engineers at the Splav design bureau and production center in the western Russian city of Tula, some 400 kilometers from the border with Ukraine, RT reported Wednesday.
The unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) is capable of being delivered within a 300mm MRLS rocket.
“This system makes tactical intelligence really fast, because the UAV is delivered to a desired distance – which could be up to 90km – by a projectile flying with tremendous speed,” the deputy director of Techmash Concern, Dmitry Rytenkov, said at the Russia Arms Expo 2015 in Nizhny Tagil.
The UAV is capable of monitoring an area for 25-30 minutes and transmit real-time data to an operational console, Rytenkov said. It can then launch a precise airstrike on the given target.
It is not clear what part of the drone is being made in China.