{"id":121694,"date":"2021-04-17T22:22:20","date_gmt":"2021-04-18T05:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/russian-company-reveals-plan-for-52-mn-factory-to-mass-produce-uavs-as-drones-play-bigger-more-vital-role-in-military-ops"},"modified":"2021-04-17T22:22:20","modified_gmt":"2021-04-18T05:22:20","slug":"russian-company-reveals-plan-for-52-mn-factory-to-mass-produce-uavs-as-drones-play-bigger-more-vital-role-in-military-ops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/russian-company-reveals-plan-for-52-mn-factory-to-mass-produce-uavs-as-drones-play-bigger-more-vital-role-in-military-ops","title":{"rendered":"Russian company reveals plan for $52-mn factory to mass-produce UAVs, as drones play bigger, more vital role in military ops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/russian-company-reveals-plan-for-52-mn-factory-to-mass-produce-uavs-as-drones-play-bigger-more-vital-role-in-military-ops.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As well as Kronshtadt, many other Russian enterprises in the military-industrial complex are developing drones for deployment on the front lines. For example, aircraft manufacturer Sukhoi has teamed up with defense company Mikoyan to build the Okhotnik-B, which will have a top speed of 1000 km\/h. Another aerospace company, called OKB Sokol, has developed a UAV named Altius, due to be delivered to the Russian Army this year.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>A Russian company is building the country\u2019s first-ever specialized factory solely for manufacturing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). It plans to mass-produce military drones, like those deployed by the Russian Army in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>The 45000-square-meter plant, under construction in the town of Dubna near Moscow, will cost at least four billion rubles ($52 million) and will create jobs for more than 1500 people. If all goes to plan, it will be built in record time, with the launch of production scheduled for November 2021.<\/p>\n<p>The company, called \u2018Kronshtadt Group,\u2019 is the developer and manufacturer of the Inokhodets UAV, also known as the Orion. This medium-altitude drone, which is capable of flying for a whole day, can carry a payload of up to 200kg, and has already seen action in the Middle East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As well as Kronshtadt, many other Russian enterprises in the military-industrial complex are developing drones for deployment on the front lines. For example, aircraft manufacturer Sukhoi has teamed up with defense company Mikoyan to build the Okhotnik-B, which will have a top speed of 1000 km\/h. Another aerospace company, called OKB Sokol, has developed a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,1878,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-employment","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}