Anyuta's successful demo flight

The FGUP DKBA is completing a series of flight development tests of a mockup of the lenticular airship. Demo flights of the robotized lenticular airship DP-27 Anyuta took place at the Kirzhach airfield on September 22, 2011.

Representatives from Russian and foreign potential customers showed great interest to practical use of the so-called flying saucer. During the talks they discussed with DKBA designers and administration prospects of this project for solution of particular tasks in various sectors. In the foreseeable future DKBA's flying saucers could find themselves in the fleets of power structures and commercial enterprises operating in the markets of telecommunications, air transportation, logistic, advertising and tourism.

The demo scaled mockup of DP-27 Anyuta is the fourth model created in the framework of the project Aerotelemost. Its lenticular form ensures stable resistance to crosswind effects, easiness of control and high maneuverability. With the hull diameter of 17 meters and the volume of 552 cubic meters the airship is capable of lifting up to 200 kilograms of payload to the maximum altitude of 800 meters. Its four 25-HP engines allow the airship fly at a speed of 80 kilometers per hour while its 40-liter fuel tank expands the flight range to 300 kilometers. The model was designed to verify the design concept and check up all controlling systems that later on would be used in the full-scale version of the aircraft.

The full-size version of the operating unmanned flying saucer DP-27 will have a hull diameter of 50 meters, the flight ceiling of up to 5 kilometers, while its eight 400-HP engines will ensure a speed of 90-100 km per hour within an 800-kilometer flight range. A flying saucer airship can rather efficiently perform various missions including monitoring and patrolling of vast territories, air and sea areas, conducting ice reconnaissance, escorting convoys of vessels, conducting hydrographic and cartographic survey, as well as radar reconnaissance, retransmission of various signals and give support to telecommunication services among other things.