Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Rudnevo industrial park in Technopolis Moscow on April 27 where a large center of domestic unmanned aviation is being created. They have already built 18 production buildings with a total area of 120 thousand square meters.
During the inspection of the exhibition of producers and operators of unmanned aircraft systems the Head of the State Transport Leasing Company (GTLK) Evgeny Dietrich told Vladimir Putin about the plans of the GTLK to develop unmanned aircraft, the press service of the company reported.
GTLK presented five exhibits at the exhibition. Two light multi-rotor drones and a light aircraft manufactured by Geoscan for surveying, monitoring and modeling. As well as two convertibles from Thuring’s Flying Machines with a payload capacity of 15 and 130 kg.
“To develop production and make unmanned aviation cost-effective, you need a guarantee of a long-term order. It can be given by the basic customer of unmanned aerial systems, which as a development institution in the first 3-4 years at the start of the market will consolidate the demand and supply, develop competencies and control the cost. Later the market will be able to regulate itself. GTLK is already working on the functionality of the base customer,” told Yevgeny Dietrich to the President of the Russian Federation.
Earlier, the GTLK reported that the company now has 21 Russian-made drones in its fleet, which will be leased to customers.
“This is the first deal in the company’s history under which small aircraft, quadcopters for video and photo shooting and convertorcraft for cargo transportation will be supplied. All the equipment is of domestic production of Geoscan and Thuring’s Flying Machines,” specified in GTLK.
The order for another 200 BALA is at a high degree of development. GTLK plans to purchase them and hand them over to the lessees by the end of this year.
