Samoom
Saudi twin-engine surveillance aircraft development with a reported Brazilian design partner; exhibition models and historical first-flight forecasts do not establish operational service.
- Country / region
- Saudi Arabia / Brazil
- Programme status
- Development / trials
- Sources reviewed
- 21 Sept 2026
- Primary domain
- Air
- System type
- Multirole aircraft
- Developer / manufacturer
- Intra Defense Technologies / Akaer
- Origin / production countries
- Saudi Arabia / Brazil
- Other names
- SAMOOM
- Variants / configurations
- Not distinguished in reviewed sources
- Operators / programme customers
- Not identified in reviewed sources
Evidence & current status
Reviewed 21 September 2026. Samoom identity is established by original exhibition reporting; Akaer's own statement corroborates the industrial work but does not name the model. Brazil denotes the specifically reported design partnership. Forecast first flights and service-entry dates remain unverified.
Role & capabilities
- Long-duration reconnaissance design
- Modular military payload programme
Specifications in context
- Airframe
- Twin-engine fixed-wing development
Named Samoom exhibited as a scale model in 2022; later production configuration not verified.
Source - Launch / recovery
- Not established in the reviewed public sources.
Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted.
Source - Propulsion
- Not established in the reviewed public sources.
Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted.
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
- Not established in the reviewed public sources.
Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted.
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
- Not established in the reviewed public sources.
Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted.
Source