Russia's new stealth attack drone just leaked — and it may reveal details of Russia next fighter jet

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• An image of Russia's new heavy attack stealth drone, the Okhotnik, just leaked.
• The drone looks like the US's B-2 stealth bomber with a flying wing design that could give it solid stealth and survivability against the US. 
• Russia has an ambiguous mission for the drone, which it claims will inform the next generation of Russian fighters.
• Russia's Su-57, its newest fighter jet, recently appeared with a silhouette of something like the Okhotnik on it, suggesting a connection between this mysterious drone and the future of Russia's fighter jets. 

Russia's new heavy attack drone, called the Okhotnik (Russian for "hunter"), just made its visual debut as a flying wing stealth platform intended to fight Moscow's enemies from the air and inform the next generation of jet fighters.

The picture of the Okhotnik, posted on a Russian aviation blog and first reported at Aviation Week, shows a drone on a snowy runway with a flat flying wing design like the B-2 Spirit bomber of the US Air Force.

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