MOSCOW (Sputnik) — "The council will focus on assessing the progress on the Strategic Missile Forces’ plan from now and up to 2020, as well as on the implementation of a concept of using complexes that utilize unmanned aerial vehicles," the ministry said, adding the panel will be chaired by Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu.
Russia’s Strategic Missile Forces is a branch of the military that controls the nation’s land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles.
Israel and the United States are currently the world leaders in the drone industry. In 2011, Russia announced its plans to build a domestic UAV. Earlier this June, the country’s Defense Ministry said it would send new Orlan-10 drones on ecological monitoring missions to patrol the Arctic.
