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Choose up to three systems. Specifications retain their source and configuration; missing information is left undisclosed.

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
Order / production commitmentOrder / production commitment
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.

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Launch / recovery
Not established in the reviewed public sources.

Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted.

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Propulsion
Piston engine

February 2025 SHADOW 50 table; not the SHADOW 25 jet baseline.

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Dimensions
Not established in the reviewed public sources.

Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted.

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Mass
125 kg maximum take-off mass

Versioned supplier catalogue.

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Endurance
Up to 9 hours with 25 kg payload

Conditional figure.

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Range
100 km communications reach

Not a mission-radius measurement.

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Speed
176 km/h

Catalogue figure; operating condition not further established.

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Altitude
Not established in the reviewed public sources.

Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted.

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Payload
Not established in the reviewed public sources.

Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted.

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Sensors
Not established in the reviewed public sources.

Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted.

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Communications / navigation
Not established in the reviewed public sources.

Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted.

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