U-UPO: Electric motors for drones

2024: Product Announcement

On February 6, 2024, Rostec"" announced the production of fully domestic engines for. drones We are talking about developments (Ulan-Ude Instrument-Making Production Association U-UPO; included in the KRET concern of the Rostec state corporation).

By the beginning of February 2024, the first batch of electric motors for unmanned aerial vehicles has already been produced. The new devices were named "Sarma," "Hius," "Barguzin" and "Kultuk" - in honor of the Baikal winds, the press service of Rostec explained. Each of the engines differs in a number of parameters, including power. So, for example, the Sarma electric motor is able to lift a drone weighing up to 11 kg into the air, said Vladimir Luchnikov, General Director of U-UPPO.

source = Y-UPO

According to him, the company's competencies allow creating electric motors not only for drones, but also for servo drives. The production of new products will contribute to ensuring the technological sovereignty and import independence of the Russian Federation, added Luchnikov, whose words were quoted by Rostec.

The state corporation also noted that the production of collector-free, synchronous and stepper electric motors, as well as generators, will become a new direction of production based on the capacity and specific competencies of the plant. Rostec named one of the differences between U-UPO electric motors and foreign analogues - less weight with higher efficiency, which allows you to install more additional attachments on the drone. Design features also contribute to the durability of the engines, emphasized in Rostec.

U-UPO works in cooperation with Novosibirsk State Technical University (NSTU). Thanks to such cooperation, a design bureau for electric motors was opened.^[1]

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