The manufacturer of Kalashnikov automatic weapons built UAVs
(Defensa.com) Russian Kalashnikov consortium announced the acquisition of 51% stake in the Russian manufacturer of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) Zala Aero. Thus the traditional manufacturer of automatic weapons delves into the growing market for UAVs controlling the manufacturing line Zala Aero. According to the CEO of Kalashnikov consortium, Alexei Krivoruchko, the company plans to design and manufacture UAVs following the Strategic Development Plan Kalashnikov 2020, which provided for the acquisition.
Zala Aero was founded in 2005 and has developed unmanned aircraft, unmanned helicopters and balloons for surveillance and reconnaissance, sold to different ministries of Russia and the Interior, the Emergency Situations, the Forest Protection Service or the Service Federal Security (FSB), and private companies.
With the entry into this market, Kalashnikov wants Russia to recover unmanned started in the nineties and the Russian crisis were forgotten development activities and construction of aircraft systems. According to data Rostech shuffles the corporation, Russia could achieve a market share in the market for UAVs between 3 and 5% in the coming years, far from the United States, which currently holds nearly 70% of share and dominates by far the sector.
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