GORKI, November 23. /TASS/. The number of requests for drone flights in Russia will skyrocket almost 16-fold against the level of 2015, chief executive of the State ATM Corporation of Russia Igor Moiseenko said on Friday at a meeting on digital development of the transport segment, chaired by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev.
The sphere of drones application in Russia is widening and "their fleet is growing at an accelerated pace," Moiseenko said. "According to performed estimates, the number of permits for airspace use will grow by almost 16 times from 2015 to 2020," the chief executive said.
Over 50 thousand requests for airspace use by drones were received as of the end of ten months of this year, Moiseenko noted. About 60% of them pertain to use of drones for video shooting, including advertisements and reports, and for monitoring of various infrastructural facilities and for agriculture. "A dramatic increase in use of unmanned aircraft systems, including in the sphere of logistics, is expected in coming future," he said.
"We suggest creating a common system of control over unmanned aircraft systems/unmanned aerial vehicles by establishing a single operator on the basis of the public private partnership at the expense of funds of the state corporation and on account of raising investments and infrastructural investors," Moiseenko added.