Appeared on the network frames with the new Russian strike drone "Sirius" speak of the beginning of flight tests. The leading expert in the field of unmanned aircraft Denis Fedutinov told RIA Novosti about this.

Earlier, the network got footage with the flight of a twin-engine drone. The expert identified the device as a new medium-altitude long-duration drone "Sirius", developed by the Russian company "Kronstadt".

“The development of this drone was done quite quickly. Obviously, in "Kronstadt" they used the developments made on their previous unmanned system "Pacer" (factory name "Orion"). It is also very likely that the heavy version inherits a number of subsystems that were originally developed for the younger model, ”Fedutinov said.

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According to him, from the stage of flight tests to mass production, the drone has a long way to go, which will probably take at least two years.

In September 2022, TASS, citing a source in the military-industrial complex, reported that the Sirius drone would receive its own satellite communications module.

In August of the same year, the Kronstadt company announced that Sirius, which is a further development of the Russian Orion drone, was tested as a wingman.