MAKS 09: KB Lutch seeks export orders for Tipchak multi-UAV system
With series production and deliveries under way for the Russian Army and legal approval for export granted, the Rybinsk based Lutch Design Bureau is exhibiting its ‘Tipchak’ multi-UAV system here at Zhukovsky. Company spokesman Dr Alexey V Kuznetsov told Unmanned Vehicles that the system is being offered in to variants: the ‘basic’ version, which includes a four-truck GCS and six air vehicles, and a smaller system with a two-truck GCS and two UAVs.
There are three types of air vehicle available with the Tipchak system. The ‘basic’ aircraft is the UAV-05, a 70 kg twin-boom pusher that offers up to
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