MOSCOW, April 28 The production of promising UAVs should be put on stream, Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting on the development of unmanned aircraft.
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«I am convinced that in such a critical area as unmanned aircraft, we have the potential to provide the necessary level of technological sovereignty. And, frankly, this is exactly the area where we can and should not just replace something with imports, but go one step ahead of our competitors,” he said.
The President of Russia stressed that it is necessary to localize the development and production of our own breakthrough technologies and element base as much as possible.
«To put the production of promising, competitive models on stream,» he said.
, according to experts, the volume of the domestic market for civilian drones alone was estimated at 500 million rubles.
«But no one objected to my remark that it would be at least a trillion,» he said.
Head The state stressed that Russian companies in the field of unmanned aircraft demonstrate many technical solutions. According to him, this also applies to various types of drones, developments in the field of infrastructure for their safe use in the airspace of the country, as well as innovations in related fields, including artificial intelligence and other end-to-end technologies.