Role & capabilities
- Aircraft technology development
- Primary domain
- Air
- System type
- Concept aircraft
- Developer / manufacturer
- ADASI / EDGE
- Origin / production countries
- United Arab Emirates
- Other names
- No additional names recorded
- Variants / configurations
- JENIAH development programme
- Operators / programme customers
- Not identified in reviewed sources
Evidence & current status
Unveiling and design specifications are established. Full-scale flight validation, delivered numbers and operational acceptance are not established by these sources.
JENIAH is ADASI’s larger uncrewed combat-aircraft programme, unveiled by EDGE at IDEX 2023. Its product sheet presents a jet aircraft and advertised design figures. This entry records the programme and its intended configuration while keeping flight validation, production and military acceptance separate.
The brochure gives a seven-metre span, eleven-metre length and a take-off mass above four tonnes. Those are supplier programme figures, not measurements from an independently observed operational aircraft. A model, demonstrator and production airframe must not silently inherit one another’s status.
JENIAH also needs to be distinguished from the smaller SHADOW family and from SINYAR’s conversion of a piloted jet. Future updates should identify the scale and configuration of any test vehicle and the organisation confirming the event. Until that evidence is available, catalogue availability is not evidence of a delivered fleet.
Sourced specifications
Figures apply to the named configuration. Maximum values are not guaranteed operating performance.
| Specification | Reported value | Context & source |
|---|---|---|
| Airframe | Jet-powered uncrewed combat-aircraft design | Supplier programme description. 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 | 7 m wingspan; 11 m length | February 2025 design sheet. Source ↗ |
| Mass | Above 4,000 kg maximum take-off mass | Advertised design figure. 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 | 480 kg | Supplier design capacity, not independently validated. 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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