Role & capabilities
- Collaborative aircraft
- Primary domain
- Air
- System type
- Collaborative aircraft
- Developer / manufacturer
- Sukhoi / United Aircraft Corporation
- Origin / production countries
- Russia
- Other names
- Okhotnik-B; Hunter
- Variants / configurations
- Development airframes; production standard not verified
- Operators / programme customers
- Russian development/test programme
Evidence & current status
Prototype/development evidence and a recovered airframe. Earlier production forecasts do not establish a delivered operational fleet.
Role & programme
A heavy uncrewed combat-aircraft development programme. Recovery of a crashed aircraft in October 2024 demonstrates a real airframe but does not establish a fully operational fleet.
Rostec previously forecast serial production in 2023. That forecast is recorded as a historical plan, not retrospectively assumed to have happened. GUR’s examination of a crashed S-70 supplies a different kind of evidence: an actual airframe. Public claims about intended teaming and eventual mission equipment remain separate from demonstrated operational acceptance.
Sourced specifications
Figures apply to the named configuration. Maximum values are not guaranteed operating performance.
| Specification | Reported value | Context & source |
|---|---|---|
| Airframe | Heavy flying-wing uncrewed combat aircraft | Published supplier specification; configuration and conditions affect performance. Source ↗ |
| Launch / recovery | Not established from the reviewed sources. | Public data gap; no estimate substituted. Follow the source for subsequent releases. Source ↗ |
| Propulsion | Jet propulsion; full production configuration not established | Published supplier specification; configuration and conditions affect performance. Source ↗ |
| Dimensions | Not established from the reviewed sources. | Public data gap; no estimate substituted. Follow the source for subsequent releases. Source ↗ |
| Mass | Not established from the reviewed sources. | Public data gap; no estimate substituted. Follow the source for subsequent releases. Source ↗ |
| Endurance | Not established from the reviewed sources. | Public data gap; no estimate substituted. Follow the source for subsequent releases. Source ↗ |
| Range | Not established from the reviewed sources. | Public data gap; no estimate substituted. Follow the source for subsequent releases. Source ↗ |
| Speed | Not established from the reviewed sources. | Public data gap; no estimate substituted. Follow the source for subsequent releases. Source ↗ |
| Altitude | Not established from the reviewed sources. | Public data gap; no estimate substituted. Follow the source for subsequent releases. Source ↗ |
| Payload | Not established from the reviewed sources. | Public data gap; no estimate substituted. Follow the source for subsequent releases. Source ↗ |
| Sensors | Not established from the reviewed sources. | Public data gap; no estimate substituted. Follow the source for subsequent releases. Source ↗ |
| Communications / navigation | Not established from the reviewed sources. | Public data gap; no estimate substituted. Follow the source for subsequent releases. Source ↗ |
Documented milestones
Aircraft loss documented
Date identified by GUR in its subsequent recovered-airframe examination.
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Publication history
- — Expanded catalogue profile with sourced specifications, variant distinctions, programme evidence and explicit public data gaps.
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Follow the evidence
Source types identify who makes the claim. Programme milestones and supplier statements should be read in context.
- GUR examination of recovered S-70 (opens in a new tab)Government intelligence assessment — Ukraine
- Rostec historical production forecast (opens in a new tab)Manufacturer / programme source