The design arm of Helicopters of Russia has said it will develop the country's first electric heavy-lift helicopter-aeroplane hybrid drone. VR-Technologies said the prototype tilt-rotor vehicle, which can take off like a chopper and fly like a plane, is based on a similar unmanned convertiplane, the VRT30. Due in ARMY 2016, it will have a liftoff mass of 1.5 tonnes, as well as a high-temperature superconductivity cable network to "improve the prototype’s mass, size and flight parameters", according to Helicopters of Russia CEO Andrey Boginsky.
The design arm of Helicopters of Russia has said it will develop the country's first electric heavy-lift helicopter-aeroplane hybrid drone. VR-Technologies said the prototype tilt-rotor vehicle, which can take off like a chopper and fly like a plane, is based on a similar unmanned convertiplane, the VRT30. Due in 2019, it will have a liftoff mass of 1.5 tonnes, as well as a high-temperature superconductivity cable network to "improve the prototype’s mass, size and flight parameters", according to Helicopters of Russia CEO Andrey Boginsky.