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Russia’s MiG Aerial Combat Drone

Writing by Evan Ackerman on Friday, 7 of September , 2007 at 3:35 am

Skat

By Evan Ackerman

MiG (famous for designing such air superiority fighters as the MiG-15 and MiG 29) have revealed a full scale engineering mock-up of their new UCAV, the somewhat inauspiciously named Skat. Here are some numbers, courtesy of an article over at Aviation Week:

The single-engine subsonic design has an 11.5 meter wingspan, and it is 10.25 meters long. The UCAV has a maximum take-off weight of 10 tons, with a maximum speed of 800 kilometers per hour (497 mph) at low altitude. It is intended to carry a combat load of up to two tons, with a combat radius of 2,000 km.

Skat has two internal weapons bays, capable of carrying air-to-surface missiles as large as the Kh-31 (AS-17 Krytpon). Possible roles include the suppression and attack of enemy air defenses.

A flying prototype should be ready in about two years; another pic after the jump.

Skat

The design seems similar to Boeing’s X-45a, so here’s hoping this all leads to a remake of Top Gun without Tom Cruise or Val Kilmer.

VIA [ Danger Room ]

Comments (8)

Category: Military

8 Comments

Comment by Noein

Made Friday, 7 of September , 2007 at 11:36 am

lol skat, ohhh my stomach hurts. And Val Kilmer is the man… some of his movie choices, not so much.

Comment by Lexie Wilkinson

Made Sunday, 4 of July , 2010 at 9:42 am

Val Kilmer is quite an old man today but he is still a great actor and handsome guy.:..

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Made Sunday, 1 of August , 2010 at 10:12 pm

Val Kilmer is quite older now but he still got that great acting talent-;-

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Made Wednesday, 13 of October , 2010 at 10:34 pm

The Saint is one of Val Kilmer’s best film ever, i love his role on that movie**~

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Val Kilmer’s movie are almost always a box office hit. He is one of the best action actors i know~`’

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