Role & capabilities
- Portable reconnaissance
- Automatic flight
- Real-time imagery
- Primary domain
- Air
- System type
- Reconnaissance aircraft
- Developer / manufacturer
- Argentine Army development programme
- Origin / production countries
- Argentina
- Other names
- No additional names recorded
- Variants / configurations
- Not distinguished in reviewed sources
- Operators / programme customers
- Not identified in reviewed sources
Evidence & current status
Official description does not establish current operational-fleet status or a final manufacturing contractor.
P35 is an Argentine Army development for close, daylight reconnaissance. Government material describes a portable, hand-launched electric aircraft with automatic flight and real-time imagery. It was intended to complement the larger Lipan M3.
The programme appears in historical government reporting and an April 2025 embassy overview. These establish an identifiable project and a published technical baseline, but not a current inventory or acceptance record for a production standard.
The table's flight-height figure lacks a clear reference datum, so it is not presented as a service ceiling. The range is retained as a government-reported capability without assuming a communications radius. Carancho and Lipan XM4 are separate programmes. A current Army or contractor statement would help resolve whether the published P35 configuration remains in production, storage, testing or active use.
Sourced specifications
Figures apply to the named configuration. Maximum values are not guaranteed operating performance.
| Specification | Reported value | Context & source |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Electric | Published baseline; load and conditions affect performance. Source |
| Dimensions | 1.4 m wingspan | Published baseline; load and conditions affect performance. Source |
| Mass | 5 kg | Reported weight, not explicitly MTOW. Source |
| Endurance | 1 hour | Published baseline; load and conditions affect performance. Source |
| Range | Up to 10 km | Range definition unspecified. 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 | 1 kg | Published baseline; load and conditions affect performance. 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 |
Publication history
- — Published reference update.
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