Russia 'will buy Israeli drones'

[nightcrawler]

Russia has signed a deal to buy Israeli unmanned spy planes to help the country improve its own drones, reports say. The news comes after reports that Moscow was unhappy with the performance of similar Russian aircraft during the conflict last
year with Georgia.
An industry source in Israel said Russian generals had been impressed with the Israeli drones used by Georgia in the conflict. Reports say the Israeli planes will cost a total of $50m (£35m). Russia's deputy defence minister, Vladimir Popovkin, was quoted by Russian news agencies as saying the military had signed a contract to buy an unspecified number of pilotless drones.
"I was in Israel and even operated one," RIA-Novosti quoted him as
saying. He added that Russia wanted to study the technology of the drones in
an effort to improve its own pilotless planes, which came under criticism during the Georgia conflict.
Mr Popovkin said Russia had used a Tipchak drone during the fighting
with Georgia, but that it had "very many problems", RIA-Novosti
reported. "You could hear it flying from 100km away," RIA-Novosti quoted him
as saying. "It returned all shot up."
The chief of staff of Russia's armed forces said in December that
Moscow was negotiating with Israel to buy a batch of spy drones.

 

[Super Falcon]

im soo much surprise if the news is true as we all know israel is american buddy and russia is american enemy what kind of piltics it is confusing me may be this news is fake may be it is not or may be usa force israel to cancel the deal with russia

im pretty much confused with israel and ruassia friendship where USA stands

india went to have friendship with russia we all know after that they went to friend ship with israel and may be india asked israel and russia to be goood friends of each other and israel aked usa to be good friend of indian

where does USA stands on russian friendship with israel

 

[wtf]

"I was in Israel and even operated one," RIA-Novosti quoted him as
saying. He added that Russia wanted to study the technology of the drones in
an effort to improve its own pilotless planes, which came under criticism during the Georgia conflict.
Mr Popovkin said Russia had used a Tipchak drone during the fighting
with Georgia, but that it had "very many problems", RIA-Novosti
reported. "You could hear it flying from 100km away," RIA-Novosti quoted him
as saying. "It returned all shot up."

Gotta love the honesty and willingness to take a lesson from the Georgians.

 

[wtf]

im soo much surprise if the news is true as we all know israel is american buddy and russia is american enemy what kind of piltics it is confusing me may be this news is fake may be it is not or may be usa force israel to cancel the deal with russia

im pretty much confused with israel and ruassia friendship where USA stands

india went to have friendship with russia we all know after that they went to friend ship with israel and may be india asked israel and russia to be goood friends of each other and israel aked usa to be good friend of indian

where does USA stands on russian friendship with israel

Israel was trying to get Russia to stop arms sale to Syria/Iran. In return for that Israel stopped selling drones to Georgia (Israel blocks arms sales to Georgia | Top Stories from 2008-08-10 | RT) . So I guess Russia is now friendlier towards Israel.

 

[Contrarian]

Israel is also one of the if not THE best in business for UAV's.
There are niche fields where Israel excels in.

 

[Super Falcon]

but israeli dominent not going to last long in uav field china is also produced similar uav as predator of usa i seen it in U tube

 

[wtf]

but israeli dominent not going to last long in uav field china is also produced similar uav as predator of usa i seen it in U tube

I don't know about chinese developments. But in this case they are talking about spy planes, not drones like predator.

 

[nightcrawler]

Well I do think that Chinese firms are getting way to far in UAV programmes, because I do believe that Iran Pakistan Srilanka & many other 3rd world countries desired to buy such things & China in this aspect will have a growing market!!
Following is the document providing you some information about UAV market 2008
http://www.*******.com/file/98112871/173a124e/china_uav_markets_update.html

http://www.*******.com/file/98112966/9187dc9b/UAV_market_2008-sample.html

 

[AchtungSpitfire]

Time for them to channel some of that Soviet era reverse engineering prowess they once had.

 

[Moscow]

its news is particularly true and russia is going for these drones they were negotiating much before for this because of these deal moscow decided to cancel the sale of s-300 to iran.
it shows the respect that each country has for the others capability,israel knows how much damage s-300 can cause to its air-fleet also russia knows that israel has got the best tech regarding uavs and both are willing to learn. the main point is how tactially they worked out the whole situation.


and for those who think that this is totally new just cast your mind back to a major development when the israeli phalcon system was sent to russia to be integrated on the illusin aircraft so the whole angle of india helping to mediate better terms between the 2 countries cannot be ruled out too.

 

[maverick2009]

Israeli technology in Radar Electronics UAVs Survaliance is As good as it gets.

Russia want Western technology. They cannot get it from USA so like india they go to Israelis.

PS

The cold war between RUSSIA AND USA is over.

The new cold war is between China & USA.

 

[Luftwaffe]

Shows inability of Russia in this field how are they going to develop potent AWACS, PAK-FA/UCAV etc etc?? and would Israel allow the sophisticated UAVs to be exported to Russia? we know what happened to Israeli-China deal..
A nation that makes supersonic bombers, SU-35, S-400 and claims AESA radar development is unable to make satisfactory advance UAV??fishy very fishy...

 

[nightcrawler]

Well luftwaffe u must not acknowledge each country as an ALL-ROUNDER!! Report shows that Russian wanna buy these UAVs to optimise their existing technology. I do believe that innnovation is something different from excellence Israel may be the innovators but time will tell that what excellence Russia is able to supply

 

[MZUBAIR]

Well I do think that Chinese firms are getting way to far in UAV programmes, because I do believe that Iran Pakistan Srilanka & many other 3rd world countries desired to buy such things & China in this aspect will have a growing market!!
Following is the document providing you some information about UAV market 2008
http://www.*******.com/file/98112871/173a124e/china_uav_markets_update.html

http://www.*******.com/file/98112966/9187dc9b/UAV_market_2008-sample.html

Good info, but u know dear Pakistan has and producing "Uqaab UAV". It looks like USA UAV's

 

[nightcrawler]

I be longing for Pakistan UCAV!! Apart from reconnaisance UCAV will greatly help us against the quantitative superior Indians by relying on robotics like these we saving our manpower for rather tough scenarios!!