The Russians boasted a new sea drone for the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation: that the unit for $ 19 thousand.

Engineers assure that they took into account the wishes of the Russian soldiers who gained experience in the war in Ukraine. The design bureau "Spectrum Engineering" from Moscow has declared the creation of an underwater drone called "Skat". Executive Director Andriy Bratrenkov spoke about his possibilities of the TASS agency. The immersed drone should be reconnaissance, monitoring, demining objects underwater, lift objects from a depth of about 100 meters.

According to Andriy Bratrenkov, in the construction of "slope" Russian engineers used the same technologies that make UAVs work: telemetry and flight controller allegedly allow to control the device more efficiently. The KB representative assures that the first research model of the apparatus, which is able to swim and dive underwater, acting in both flow and standing reservoirs is already made, now the company is preparing for fine -shaped assembly. The mass of the prototype is 4.

7 kg, and it accelerates up to 9 km/h. About $ 19. 2 thousand Andrei Bratrenkov added to the assembly of the device that when developing the drone "Spectrum Engineering" took into account the wishes of the Russian soldiers in Ukraine. In particular, the scouts asked to make a drone capable of delivering mines to shore. "Skat" is fully suited to this task, "he said. On February 10, information appeared that the Russian underwater drone attacked a bridge in the city of Gulf of Odessa region.