SHADOW 50
Longer-endurance SHADOW configuration whose versioned catalogue describes piston propulsion, separate from the jet-powered SHADOW 25.
- Country / region
- United Arab Emirates
- Programme status
- Order / production commitment
- Sources reviewed
- 21 Sept 2026
- Primary domain
- Air
- System type
- Loitering munition
- Developer / manufacturer
- ADASI / EDGE
- Origin / production countries
- United Arab Emirates
- Other names
- No additional names recorded
- Variants / configurations
- SHADOW 50
- Operators / programme customers
- UAE Armed Forces — order announced; delivery totals unknown
Evidence & current status
Use the variant-specific 2025 catalogue. Family-level descriptions and the 2023 combined contract do not establish identical propulsion or acceptance for both types.
Role & capabilities
- Loitering munition programme
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
- Not established in the reviewed public sources.
Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted.
Source - Propulsion
- Piston engine
February 2025 SHADOW 50 table; not the SHADOW 25 jet baseline.
Source - Dimensions
- Not established in the reviewed public sources.
Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted.
Source - Mass
- 125 kg maximum take-off mass
Versioned supplier catalogue.
Source - Endurance
- Up to 9 hours with 25 kg payload
Conditional figure.
Source - Range
- 100 km communications reach
Not a mission-radius measurement.
Source - Speed
- 176 km/h
Catalogue figure; operating condition not further established.
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