“It is of fundamental importance to systematically look at the next technological paradigm. To create industries and markets of the future. It is on this logic that the national project for the development of unmanned aerial systems is built, ”he said addressing the participants. of the Future Technologies Forum.
“As we agreed with our colleagues, I ask you to approve it before September 1, 2023, and also take this priority into account when drawing up the budget for 2024 and the planning period until 2026,” added the head of state.
In April this year, Putin held a meeting on the development of drones. Instructions were given a month ago as a result of the discussion of this topic. Some of them relate to the national project for the development of unmanned aerial systems for the period up to 2030. The Russian government was instructed to provide for the creation of support centers for the design, testing, production and preparation for certification of unmanned aerial systems in the regions of Nizhny Novgorod, Ryazan, Samara, Sakhalin, Tomsk, Tula, the Republic of Bashkortostan, the Republic of Tatarstan, as well as in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Sevastopol. These centers, the document states, should operate on the principle of “one-stop shopping.”
