Russia’s First Missile Defense Airship to Be Produced in Three Years
Russia’s experimental airship Atlant is scheduled to make its first flight somewhere in late-2020, NSN news service reported, citing Augur-RosAeroSystems CEO Gennady Verba.
Gennady Verba said that the final version of the Atlant airship would take about 3.5 years to build at the cost of several billion rubles.
He added, however, that the other modifications would cost less.
During a news conference at the National News Service headquarters on Tuesday, Verba thanked the Skolkovo Fund for helping develop the airship’s autonomous ballast system, which allows the airship to float freely in a horizontal position and, whenever necessary, to lose its lift and descend.
