Role & capabilities
- Reconnaissance aircraft
- Primary domain
- Air
- System type
- Reconnaissance aircraft
- Developer / manufacturer
- XMobots
- Origin / production countries
- Brazil
- Other names
- No additional names recorded
- Variants / configurations
- Nauru 1000C ISTAR reconnaissance configuration; Armed derivative with MBDA: development, not established service
- Operators / programme customers
- Brazilian Army
Evidence & current status
Army adoption is documented. Current manufacturer specifications should not be assumed for every earlier delivery; the armed derivative remains separately qualified.
Nauru 1000C ISTAR is XMobots’ Brazilian tactical reconnaissance aircraft. It combines fixed-wing cruise with electric vertical lift, using a combustion engine for forward flight. The arrangement provides runway-independent take-off and landing while supporting longer observation missions. The manufacturer’s current page describes a stabilised imaging payload and integration with a ground control and communications system.
Brazilian Army material identifies Nauru 1000C among its acquired uncrewed systems. That establishes an operator relationship, while the current XMobots specifications describe the manufacturer’s advertised configuration rather than every delivered aircraft. Earlier publicity called the aircraft a 150-kilogram system; the present product page gives a 181-kilogram maximum take-off mass. The dated baseline matters.
XMobots also describes development of an armed version with MBDA. This is kept separate from the reconnaissance aircraft’s established adoption: a partnership or integration programme is not evidence that an armed configuration has entered military service. The range figures are explicitly radio line-of-sight coverage. They should not be compared directly with fuel-limited flight distance quoted for another aircraft. Naval adaptations likewise require their own programme evidence.
Sourced specifications
Figures apply to the named configuration. Maximum values are not guaranteed operating performance.
| Specification | Reported value | Context & source |
|---|---|---|
| Airframe | Fixed-wing aircraft with separate vertical-lift rotors | Published figure for the cited configuration; conditions and payload can affect performance. Source |
| Launch / recovery | Automatic VTOL | Published figure for the cited configuration; conditions and payload can affect performance. Source |
| Propulsion | Combustion pusher engine for cruise; eight electric lift motors | Published figure for the cited configuration; conditions and payload can affect performance. Source |
| Dimensions | Wingspan 7.7 m; length 2.9 m; height 0.98 m | Published figure for the cited configuration; conditions and payload can affect performance. Source |
| Mass | Maximum take-off weight 181 kg | Published figure for the cited configuration; conditions and payload can affect performance. Source |
| Endurance | 10 hours | Published figure for the cited configuration; conditions and payload can affect performance. Source |
| Range | 60 km radio line-of-sight; 120 km optional | Published figure for the cited configuration; conditions and payload can affect performance. Source |
| Speed | 60 kt cruise | Published figure for the cited configuration; conditions and payload can affect performance. Source |
| Altitude | Service ceiling 10,000 ft | Published figure for the cited configuration; conditions and payload can affect performance. Source |
| Payload | Maximum 42 kg | Published figure for the cited configuration; conditions and payload can affect performance. Source |
| Sensors | XSIS stabilised EO/IR imaging system | Published figure for the cited configuration; conditions and payload can affect performance. Source |
| Communications / navigation | Ground datalink; ADS-B and transponder described | Published figure for the cited configuration; conditions and payload can affect performance. Source |
Publication history
- — Added a sourced global catalogue profile with configuration-specific data and explicit evidence limits.
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