Role & capabilities
- Reconnaissance
- Primary domain
- Air
- System type
- Reconnaissance aircraft
- Developer / manufacturer
- Aeronautics
- Origin / production countries
- Israel
- Other names
- No additional names recorded
- Variants / configurations
- Conventional launcher/parachute configuration; Optional VTOL kit — separate performance required
- Operators / programme customers
- Not identified in reviewed sources
Evidence & current status
Supplier information is attributed; performance and operational acceptance require configuration-specific evidence.
Orbiter 3 is the larger electric member of the Orbiter reconnaissance family. The linked 2026-named brochure specifies a thirty-two-kilogram airframe and a six-kilogram payload allowance. This is a useful current baseline, but it should not be retroactively assigned to all aircraft delivered during the family’s longer history.
Aeronautics separately offers a VTOL kit. The conventional configuration’s ten-hour endurance is not assumed to remain unchanged after adding lifting motors, batteries and other equipment. The product page identifies launcher and parachute recovery for the conventional aircraft.
The supplier lists optical, radar and electronic-intelligence options. Such a menu describes integration possibilities, not one aircraft carrying the entire catalogue simultaneously. A model-specific operator register and VTOL-specific performance remain useful additions. Current communications reach is retained separately from flight duration and total distance.
Sourced specifications
Figures apply to the named configuration. Maximum values are not guaranteed operating performance.
| Specification | Reported value | Context & source |
|---|---|---|
| Airframe | Fixed wing | Current supplier configuration; maxima are not necessarily simultaneous. 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 | Current supplier configuration; maxima are not necessarily simultaneous. Source |
| Dimensions | 4.4 m span; 2 m length | Current supplier configuration; maxima are not necessarily simultaneous. Source |
| Mass | 32 kg maximum take-off | Current supplier configuration; maxima are not necessarily simultaneous. Source |
| Endurance | Up to 10 hours, conventional configuration | Current supplier configuration; maxima are not necessarily simultaneous. Source |
| Range | Up to 150 km line-of-sight communications; BLOS option | Current supplier configuration; maxima are not necessarily simultaneous. Source |
| Speed | 70 knots maximum | Current supplier configuration; maxima are not necessarily simultaneous. Source |
| Altitude | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source |
| Payload | Up to 6 kg | Current supplier configuration; maxima are not necessarily simultaneous. Source |
| Sensors | EO/IR, radar and electronic-intelligence options | Current supplier configuration; maxima are not necessarily simultaneous. Source |
| Communications / navigation | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source |
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