Role & capabilities
- Long-duration reconnaissance design
- Modular military payload programme
- 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.
Samoom is Intra Defense Technologies' larger twin-engine uncrewed aircraft development. Aviation Week's original World Defense Show reporting identified the named programme and its displayed scale model in March 2022. The intended role combined long-duration reconnaissance with other military payload options; a proposed role is not evidence that an integrated operational configuration has been delivered.
Aviation Week subsequently identified Brazil's Akaer as the design partner in April 2023. Akaer's own announcement confirms cooperation with Intra and work on a Class 3 twin-engine prototype, although it does not name Samoom in that statement. The Brazilian association here is therefore specifically a reported design contribution, not merely a company headquarters or an export destination.
Published first-flight forecasts have shifted between accounts. They are not recorded here as completed events. The 2026 IISS review continues to describe a development programme and discusses earlier projected entry dates rather than confirming an accepted fleet. Detailed values from exhibition concepts should not be combined with later models into an artificial definitive specification. Current prototype flight evidence, configuration identification and procurement acceptance remain necessary.
Sourced specifications
Figures apply to the named configuration. Maximum values are not guaranteed operating performance.
| Specification | Reported value | Context & source |
|---|---|---|
| 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 ↗ |
Publication history
- — Added in the September 2026 global coverage review, with sources, configuration limits and explicit data gaps.
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Source types identify who makes the claim. Programme milestones and supplier statements should be read in context.
- Aviation Week, 21 March–3 April 2022 — original WDS reporting (opens in a new tab)Original exhibition reporting
- Aviation Week — Akaer identified as Samoom design partner, 13 April 2023 (opens in a new tab)Original reporting
- Akaer — partnership and twin-engine prototype development, June 2023 (opens in a new tab)Manufacturer
- IISS — UAVs: ISR, Deterrence and War, 2026 (opens in a new tab)Research institute