Role & capabilities
- Multirole aircraft
- Automatic runway take-off and landing
- EO/IR; optional radar, signals-intelligence and electronic-warfare payloads
- Primary domain
- Air
- System type
- Multirole aircraft
- Developer / manufacturer
- Kronshtadt
- Origin / production countries
- Russia
- Other names
- Inokhodets; Orion-E
- Variants / configurations
- Domestic Orion; Orion-E export configurations
- Operators / programme customers
- Russia — exporter account
Evidence & current status
Status and performance are attributed to the supplier. They do not establish an independently audited fleet size or effectiveness rate.
Role & programme
A Russian medium-altitude remotely piloted aircraft family, with Orion-E offered for export. Sirius is a separate larger programme.
The exporter reports military use and the manufacturer provides several dated brochures. The table identifies the later Orion-E brochure where numbers are available: it lists 1,150 kg maximum take-off mass and distinguishes maximum endurance from endurance with a standard payload. These should not be merged with the older 1,000 kg baseline often repeated in reference material.
Sourced specifications
Figures apply to the named configuration. Maximum values are not guaranteed operating performance.
| Specification | Reported value | Context & source |
|---|---|---|
| Airframe | MALE fixed-wing 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 | Not established from the reviewed sources. | Public data gap; no estimate substituted. Follow the source for subsequent releases. Source ↗ |
| Dimensions | Not established from the reviewed sources. | Public data gap; no estimate substituted. Follow the source for subsequent releases. Source ↗ |
| Mass | 1,150 kg MTOW — later Orion-E brochure | Published supplier specification; configuration and conditions affect performance. Source ↗ |
| Endurance | At least 30 h maximum; at least 24 h with standard payload | Published supplier specification; configuration and conditions affect performance. Source ↗ |
| Range | Not established from the reviewed sources. | Public data gap; no estimate substituted. Follow the source for subsequent releases. Source ↗ |
| Speed | Not established from the reviewed sources. | Public data gap; no estimate substituted. Follow the source for subsequent releases. Source ↗ |
| Altitude | Not established from the reviewed sources. | Public data gap; no estimate substituted. Follow the source for subsequent releases. Source ↗ |
| Payload | Not established from the reviewed sources. | Public data gap; no estimate substituted. Follow the source for subsequent releases. Source ↗ |
| Sensors | EO/IR; optional radar, signals-intelligence and electronic-warfare payloads | Published supplier specification; configuration and conditions affect performance. Source ↗ |
| Communications / navigation | Ground-control system; satellite data-transmission option | 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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Follow the evidence
Source types identify who makes the claim. Programme milestones and supplier statements should be read in context.
- Kronshtadt Orion-E brochure (opens in a new tab)Manufacturer / programme source
- Kronshtadt mission-system brochure (opens in a new tab)Manufacturer / programme source
- Ukraine GUR public system record (opens in a new tab)Government intelligence assessment — Ukraine