The number of domestic samples of UAVs created in the country today has reached 110, the task of next year will be to improve them. Dmitry Peskov, Special Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for Digital and Technological Development, CEO of the National Technology Initiative Platform, said this on Thursday at the ceremony of announcing the winners of the Technological Breakthrough Award (Technobreakthrough 2022), TASS reports.
“We [in Russia] today have about 110 different [unmanned] vehicles. <…> Next year, the task is to make them fly cheaper, further and faster,” Peskov said.
The NTI Platform, the NTI Project Support Fund, the Agency for Strategic Initiatives and the Government of Moscow held the Aeronet 2035 exhibition at VDNKh from November 20 to 27, dedicated to advanced domestic developments in the field of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) for logistics, forestry and agriculture, and geodata collection and other tasks. 130 companies took part in it.
BAS developers were also among the winners of the annual Russian Technological Breakthrough award, the award ceremony of which was held on Thursday in Moscow. Among the noted projects is the first Russian heavy unmanned helicopter.
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