ideaForge ZOLT
A tactical VTOL reconnaissance family offered in electric, hybrid and high-altitude hybrid configurations.
- Country / region
- India
- Programme status
- Development / trials
- Sources reviewed
- 21 Sept 2026
- Primary domain
- Air
- System type
- Reconnaissance aircraft
- Developer / manufacturer
- ideaForge Technology
- Origin / production countries
- India
- Other names
- No additional names recorded
- Variants / configurations
- ZOLT electric; ZOLT Hybrid; ZOLT Hybrid HA
- Operators / programme customers
- Not identified in reviewed sources
Evidence & current status
Customer-trial evidence does not establish an accepted operator fleet. No endurance or payload numbers have been inferred.
Role & capabilities
- Vertical take-off and landing
- Multispectral surveillance
- Alternative propulsion configurations
Specifications in context
- Airframe
- Not established in the reviewed public sources.
Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted.
Source - Launch / recovery
- Vertical take-off and landing
Supplier baseline; performance depends on payload and conditions.
Source - Propulsion
- Battery electric; internal-combustion/battery hybrid options
Supplier baseline; performance depends on payload and conditions.
Source - Dimensions
- Not established in the reviewed public sources.
Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted.
Source - Mass
- Not established in the reviewed public sources.
Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted.
Source - Endurance
- Not established in the reviewed public sources.
Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted.
Source - Range
- Not established in the reviewed public sources.
Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted.
Source - Speed
- Not established in the reviewed public sources.
Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted.
Source - Altitude
- Electric: 3,000 m AMSL; Hybrid: 4,000 m; Hybrid HA: 6,000 m
Operating-altitude figures by named version; not interchangeable.
Source - Payload
- Not established in the reviewed public sources.
Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted.
Source - Sensors
- Not established in the reviewed public sources.
Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted.
Source - Communications / navigation
- Published LOS distances: electric 50 km; hybrid versions 100 km
Line-of-sight communications figures, not aircraft travel range.
Source