Country

ENICS

R90

Complete(?)

Air-launched battlefield reconnaissance / surveillance UAV. Secondary use as decoy.

TV camera; video downlink transmits imagery.

Air- launched

Non- recoverable

One 11 lb st ENICS M44D pulsejet

2.56

1.42

0.40

45

58-78

9,850

0.5

First flight in 1990.

Tupolev

VR-2 / Tu-141 Strizh

Complete

Complete

Deployed

Long-range jet-powered tactical reconnaissance / surveillance UAV.

 Can include frame or TV camera, IR sensor, laser range finder/ designator or radiation detection equipment.

By solid-propellant booster rocket(s) from trailer-mounted container; outer wings unfold and lock as it emerges.

 Parachute recovery to three-skid landing, as for Tu-143.

Launcher, transporter vehicle or refuelling truck, checking and testing system, POD-3 data processing and decoding centre.

One 4,409 lb st Tumansky KR-17A (R-9A-300) turbojet.

3.875

14.33

2.435

6,215

 594

19,685

540

1.0

In service.

Tu-143 /243 Reys

Complete

Underway

Deployed

 Jet-powered tactical reconnaissance systems.

 Tu-143: a PA-1 wet-film camera or a camera or a Chibis-B real-time TV camera; optionally a Sigma ground-mapping radar or radiation detection equipment. Tu-243: day/night AP-402M still and Aist-M(stork) TV cameras or still camera plus Zima-M (winter) IR sensor.

Launched from large, truck-mounted cylindrical container, inclined at 15° from horizontal, by means of an underfuselage solid-propellant rocket booster. This accelerates the air vehicle for the first 550 m of flight, at which point it is jettisoned and the turbojet takes over.

Recovery sequence begins with deployment of a drogue parachute to slow the UAV to a speed of about 156 kt, when the main parachute deploys. Landing is made on a 'tricycle' gear of three retractable landing skids, after firing of a small braking rocket just before touchdown.

Rays : Two eight-wheeled ground vehicles: an SPU-141 transporter/launcher vehicle and a TZM-141 transporter/refueller (both based on the BAZ 135 truck), a KPK-141 cheching/testing system and POD-3 data processing and decoding centre.

One TR3-117 turbojet in Tu-143 1,301 lb st in early aircraft, 1,411 lb st later.

 2.24

2.90

 7.065/ 8.06

 1.545

dia 0.61

150 (190 liters)

7.3

Tu-143:1,390/1,400 Tu-243: 1,410 / 1,600

472 / 459-508

9,800/ 16,400

51 / 97

Tu-143: 13 min

950 Tu-143 produced between 1973 and 1989. Original VR-3/ Tu-143 Reys system in service: Russian, Ukrainian and other armed forces of the former USSR; Czech Republic( 345 Reconnaissance Drone Squadron at Pardubice); Iraq(reportedly) ; Romania; Slovak Republic; Syria.

Tu-300 Korshun (Black Kite)

Underway

Turbojet

3,100

7.3

500

16,400

97

0.4

Prototype was displayed at the 1995 and 1997 Moscow Air show

Yakovlev

Abatross

Underway

Ship-based V/STOL UAV, day and night overwater surveillance and environmental monitoring.

TV camera, IRLS and environmental mointoring sensors.

Vertical or short take-off

Vertical landing

Air vehicle, GCS and support equipment.

One 160 shp turboshaft engine.

Two three-blade proprotors in tiltable nacelles at wingtips.

Span over proprotors 8.00

proprotor dia 2.20

4.80

450

162

11.480

1,772

54

3-7

designed 1999-2000

7×7 m (23×23 ft) deck area for air vehicle take-off and landing.

lzd. 60C

Complete

Complete

Deployed

 Short rane surveillance and tactical UAV.

 TV cemera.

From the rail assisted by a pair of solid-propellant rocket boosters.

 Parachute and shock- absorption system locked in the center-fuselage.

 GCS and system integration by NLL Kulon; launch equipment by Horizont MOKB.

One 20 hp P-020 piston engine

285

10.7

60

9,800

27

2.0

First flight 17 June 1983.

25 launched made, of which 20 were successful.

Pchela-1T (air vehicle) / Story-P (full system)

 Complete

complete

Deployed

 Developed version, based on lzd. 60C.

 TV camera with zoom lens

 From the rail assisted by a pair of solid-propellant rocket boosters.

Parachute descent ro a landing on the four spring-loaded landing legs.

 10 air vehicles, one GCS/launch vehicle mounted on a BTR-D air-droppable APC. One GAZ-66 load/transportation truck, and a crew of eight. Deployment time 20 minutes.

 One 32 hp Samara P-032 two-cylinder two-stroke engine.

 3.25

1.83

2.78

1.11

 97

 65

 8,200

 27

2

 First flight 26 April 1986. 68 launches, 52 of them successful.

Entered in 1991.

 since in early 1994. Russian Army, Navy and Marines(Pchela), North Korea (one system plus 10 Shmel-1 air vehicles ordered in 1994)

Pchela-1K (air vehicle) / Story-P (full system) system)

 Complete(?)

Underway(?)

Deployed(?)

Pchela-1T With IRLS sensor.

 IRLS

 //

//

 Trial complete at the end of 2000.

Pchela-2,  Yak-061 Shmel-2 (air vehicle) / Story-P (full system)

Underway

Improved version of Pchela-1

 //

 //

 One 32 hp engine.

140

 97

 65

4

MARKS-95

 Underway

Strekoza (air vehicle) / Expert (full system)

Underway

 Surveillance and environmental monitoring UAV.

TV camera, IRLS and environmental monitoring sensors.

 Pneumatic catapult

Belly skid landing on unpaved strip.

2

Three air vehicles, GCS, launcher and support equipment.

 One 7.5 kW electric motor

Two-blade pusher prop

 40

 59

35

 14,760

 984

54

6

Deployment time 30 minuete.

Kamov

Ka-37

Underway in 1998

 Civil helicopter UAV

Conventional helicopter take off.

Conventional helicopter landing.

Two 33.5 hp Samara/Trud (Kuznetsov) P-037 two-cylinder two-stroke engines. Later single 65 hp Hirth 2706-R05 two-cylinder two-stroke in-line.

 dia 4.80

 2.875

 1.64

1.335

0.75

50

250

 59

9,800

3

1.0

Selected by Daewoo of South Korea as a basis for the latter's ARCH-50 programme.

Ka-115

Complete

Underway

Piston

780km

Helicopter

Ka-137

Underway

 Multipurpose helicopter UAV.

 SKOL aerial reconnaissance system for the day/night surveillance, real-time detection and localisation of wheeled vehicle ground targets.

Conventional helicopter take off.

Conventional helicopter landing.

 SKOL system, Ka-137S air vehicle, a PPU-137 mobile GCS, a transportation vehicle/launch platform motorcar, and a crew of five.

One 65 hp Hirth 2706-R05 two-cylinder two-stroke in-line engine.

Rotor dia: 5.30

 2.325

1.74

 1.965

appx : 1.30

80

280

95

 78

9,840

At least 10.8

4.0

PS-01 Komar

Complete

One 12 hp MP-6Kh2

2.12

1.3/0.7

2.15

90

180 km/h

2.7 m/sec

1980 -

Novic- XXI centure

GRANT

Surveillance, air monitoring UAV

3 stabilized TV-cameras

Catapult

Wheeled, manual controlled.

Mobile Command Post (light-weight track), Mobile launcher (light- weight track), two containerized UAV.

Radio channel, real-time image information, connecting to "Ethernet"

20

3,000 m / 5,000 m with special "mountane" wing.

50 / 70 km (depending on power of TV- transmitter)

2 / 3

Elf-D

Complete

One 48 hp Nelson engine

5.86

6.16

5.40

360

195

2.5 m/sec

1979-