Unmanned version of a light tactical aircraft (LTS) Checkmate will provide an opportunity to implement new tactical techniques. Features of the offline version of Checkmate Director General of the United Aircraft Building Corporation (UAC) Yuri Slyusar revealed TASS.
He stressed that Checkmate is initially created as the basis for a family of aviation complexes. The plane will become a platform for unmanned and optional-manned modifications.
“Unmanned modification is not just a tribute to fashion. We are already at the early stage of the project put into it wide opportunities for use within the sectocentric military operations. The aircraft will be able to exchange information and attach other aviation complexes and unmanned aerial vehicles. Application of unmanned The versions of the car will allow, among other things, to implement new tactical techniques, “said Slyusar.
LTS presented at the International Aviation and Space Salon of MAKS-2021 in July. The plane will receive a radar station with an active phased antenna lattice, a complex of radio-electronic combat, as well as means of optical and radio engineering intelligence. As noted by the head of Rostech, Sergey Chezov, the cost of the aircraft will be from 25 to $ 35 million.
At the presentation of the aircraft in July, Yuri Slyusar spoke about creating a unmanned modification of Checkmate. According to him, a single-engine fighter can cause interest in the air-space forces of Russia.