“The pensioner lives in the house, but today he was not there. There was a fire on the territory of the site, the video is unclear whether his house burned down”, – WRITE: www.radiosvoboda.org
The incident, according to the press service of the head of Tatarstan, occurred on July 8 at 9:10 during the test of a “civilian aircraft”. During the training flight, the device lost control and fell into the suburban area, said in the message.
The pensioner lives in the house, but today he was not there. There was a fire on the territory of the site, the video is unclear whether his house burned down. Business Online writes that the fire “destroyed the house” and “the aircraft collapsed in parts.”
The RIA Novosti State Agency, citing the developer, reported that the drone fell off because “navigation had been violated by unknown means” of radio electronic struggle (EIT). For the landing, I had to bring the device to the second circle. Planting was inertial mode, there was a freelance situation.
Altyius (Altair) is able to carry loads weighing up to five tons. Its development began in 2011 at the Simonov Research Bureau. In 2018, Mediazonna writes, the head of the enterprise Alexander Gomzin was arrested in the case of theft in the development of this and another model of drones. He received eight years in colony, but was released after the limitation period. The development of Altyius was handed over to the Ural Civil Aviation Plant in the same year.
In August 2021, Deputy Minister of Defense Alexei Kryvorukko stated that in the fall, the first heavy shock complex with unmanned aerial vehicles “Altyius” would come to the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, and in December of the same year then Minister of Defense Sergey Shogu said that Altyius was completed. The use of this drone in the war against Ukraine was not reported.