Russian technologies for creating unmanned aerial vehicles do not meet modern requirements for this type of weapon, Air Force Commander-in-Chief Colonel-General Alexander Zelin said on Saturday on the Ekho Moskvy radio station.
“We would be happy to buy our own funds, but, unfortunately, they do not meet the high requirements for this type of weapon,” Zelin is quoted as saying by Interfax.
As a result, a joint venture for the production of drones may be created in Russia.
“It may be necessary to organize joint production, as is done in other countries, for example, in India, China,” Zelin said.
As the newspaper VZGLYAD reported, on July 25, the head of the department for the export of special property and services of the Air Force of Rosoboronexport, Sergei Kornev, said that Israel would supply Russia with 36 unmanned aerial vehicles in the near future.
Earlier, the Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces, General of the Army Nikolai Makarov, said that the Russian Ministry of Defense plans to switch to the network-centric principle of command and control by 2015.
Within the framework of the newest concept of a network-centric system of combat operations, through the introduction of advanced information technologies into the troops, it is planned to combine disparate forces and means (personnel, control bodies and points of control, combat support; weapons and military equipment of land, air and sea basing) into formations with a complex network architecture.
"Network-centric warfare", first of all, implies the active introduction of unmanned reconnaissance aircraft that supply information about enemy territories.
