Analysts predict the tractors, which today on the Russian fields are almost the main characters, will soon be forgotten. According to experts, old-fashioned vehicles will replace ultra-modern cargo-type drones.
Drones, which may soon come (or rather, arrive) to replace tractors, are called "Skiff". Russians had a chance to meet them as part of a presentation in Kazan. Everyone who attended the event witnessed the test flights of Skif, and also appreciated the many advantages of the multi-rotor drone over current agricultural equipment.
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The carrying capacity of one “Skiff” is about 400 kilograms. If the mass of the cargo does not exceed 50 kilograms, the drone can fly about 350 kilometers without refueling with gasoline, which ensures the operation of the engine.
“Skif” can fly for eight hours in a row, but then it will need to refuel with Ai-95 gasoline, which has an hourly flow rate of about 30 liters, ”the drone developers say. - The main area of use of this drone is agriculture. That is precisely what we emphasized in the construction of the “Scythian”. It is capable of round-the-clock pollination of fields from the air, while lifting at the same time about 250 liters of liquid fertilizer at a time. That is how much 25 ha of crops should be enough for pollination, spending about half an hour on the procedure. ”