The RHV-35 unmanned convertible aircraft at the display during the international military and technical forum ARMY-2016. The Russian design bureau VR-Technologies, part of Russian Helicopters, will build Russia’s first ever electric-powered heavy-lift convertiplane prototype by 2019, TASS reports. The first prototype is based on unmanned convertiplane VRT30 and has lift-off mass of 1,500 kilograms. "The VR-Technologies design bureau (affiliated with Helicopters of Russia) plans to come up with a prototype of Russia’s first electric-powered convertiplane with a liftoff mass of 1.5 tonnes by 2019," the Helicopters of Russia (an affiliate of Rostec) said on Wednesday. The aircraft’s main advantage is that it needs no runway. Also, the rotors’ tilt mechanism allows convertiplanes develop high speed in horizontal flight and perform a variety of operations in the hover mode. "In cooperation with our partners in the Super-Ox company we have been working on a new convertiplane-based laboratory boasting such a feature as high-temperature superconductivity cable network, which will considerably improve the prototype’s mass, size and flight parameters," Helicopters of Russia CEO Andrey Boginsky said. Last year in ARMY 2016, Rostec unveiled new RHV-35 unmanned convertible aircraft that like a drone from Terminator. The holdings has not given technical specifications of the drone but said its implemented as part of the Speed programme adopted by Russian Helicopters. The main objective during the development of the unmanned aircraft was to create a flying test bed to determine the efficiency of design layouts and search for innovative solutions.
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 hybrid tilt - rotor drone , which can take off like a chopper and fly like a plane , is based on a similar unmanned convertiplane , the helicopter . Due in 2019 , it will have a liftoff mass of 1.5 tonnes , as well as a high - temperature superconductivity cable designed to " improve the prototype ’s mass , size and flight capability " , according to Helicopters of Russia , Andrey Boginsky .