Role & capabilities
- Multirole aircraft
- Automatic runway take-off and landing
- EO/IR, radar and optional intelligence payloads
- Primary domain
- Air
- System type
- Multirole aircraft
- Developer / manufacturer
- Israel Aerospace Industries
- Origin / production countries
- Israel
- Other names
- Eitan; German Heron TP; GHTP
- Variants / configurations
- Israeli Heron TP; German Heron TP
- Operators / programme customers
- Israel; Germany — customer-specific configuration
Evidence & current status
The cited public record documents military use or operator acceptance. Specifications still depend on the particular production version and mission configuration.
Role & programme
A large turboprop intelligence aircraft, distinct from the smaller Heron family. The German Heron TP configuration has its own certification, mission equipment and service arrangements.
IAI identifies Israeli operational use, while Airbus documents the German aircraft’s first flight in German airspace on 15 May 2024. This demonstrates a customer-specific programme rather than identical equipment across all users. The current manufacturer table supplies the numerical baseline. Sensor payload, communications and airworthiness requirements must be read against the relevant customer configuration.
Sourced specifications
Figures apply to the named configuration. Maximum values are not guaranteed operating performance.
| Specification | Reported value | Context & source |
|---|---|---|
| Airframe | Large fixed-wing remotely piloted aircraft | Published supplier specification; configuration and conditions affect performance. Source |
| Launch / recovery | Automatic runway take-off and landing | Published supplier specification; configuration and conditions affect performance. Source |
| Propulsion | 1,200 hp PT6 turboprop | Published supplier specification; configuration and conditions affect performance. Source |
| Dimensions | 26 m span; 14 m length | Published supplier specification; configuration and conditions affect performance. Source |
| Mass | 5,670 kg maximum take-off mass | Published supplier specification; configuration and conditions affect performance. Source |
| Endurance | More than 30 h | Published supplier specification; configuration and conditions affect performance. Source |
| Range | More than 1,000 km BLOS operation claimed | Published supplier specification; configuration and conditions affect performance. Source |
| Speed | 220 KTAS maximum | Published supplier specification; configuration and conditions affect performance. Source |
| Altitude | Table states above 45,000 ft; prose describes up to 45,000 ft | Published supplier specification; configuration and conditions affect performance. Source |
| Payload | 2,700 kg in current manufacturer table; customer installation differs | Published supplier specification; configuration and conditions affect performance. Source |
| Sensors | EO/IR, radar and optional intelligence payloads | Published supplier specification; configuration and conditions affect performance. Source |
| Communications / navigation | LOS and SATCOM/BLOS; automated flight functions | Published supplier specification; configuration and conditions affect performance. Source |
Publication history
- — Expanded catalogue profile with sourced specifications, variant distinctions, programme evidence and explicit public data gaps.
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