Role & capabilities
- Multirole aircraft
- Primary domain
- Air
- System type
- Multirole aircraft
- Developer / manufacturer
- Global Industrial & Defence Solutions (GIDS)
- Origin / production countries
- Pakistan
- Other names
- Shahpar 2; Shahpar-II; Shahpar II Block II
- Variants / configurations
- Shahpar-II Block-II; prior blocks require separate specifications
- Operators / programme customers
- Operator/configuration list not established in reviewed supplier page
Evidence & current status
GIDS describes the aircraft as battle-tested. Deployment and performance assertions are supplier-reported; no universal configuration is assumed.
Shahpar-II Block-II is GIDS's medium-altitude, long-endurance aircraft for surveillance and armed missions. Its current product description identifies a composite and metallic modular airframe, retractable landing gear, automatic take-off and landing, and redundant avionics. The mission system offers electro-optical and infrared observation, with a radar payload described as an alternative.
The supplier publishes separate endurance and altitude figures for surveillance and armed configurations. This is a useful distinction: maximum endurance, maximum payload and maximum ceiling should not be presented as simultaneously achievable. Similarly, the advertised communication distances describe the data-link system and are not a statement of total flight range.
This profile covers the Block-II configuration on the current GIDS page. It should not be read as a specification for the original Shahpar, every previous Shahpar-II aircraft, or the larger Shahpar-III. Although the supplier calls the product battle-tested, the reviewed page does not provide a complete, independently corroborated record of delivered aircraft and operator configurations. Service assertions and technical figures therefore retain explicit manufacturer attribution.
Sourced specifications
Figures apply to the named configuration. Maximum values are not guaranteed operating performance.
| Specification | Reported value | Context & source |
|---|---|---|
| Airframe | Modular fixed-wing MALE aircraft | Supplier-published figure; configuration and operating conditions affect performance. Source |
| Launch / recovery | Automatic take-off and landing; retractable landing gear | Supplier-published figure; configuration and operating conditions affect performance. Source |
| Propulsion | 140 hp turbocharged engine | Supplier-published figure; configuration and operating conditions affect performance. Source |
| Dimensions | 35 ft wingspan | Supplier-published figure; configuration and operating conditions affect performance. Source |
| Mass | Not established from the reviewed public sources. | Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted. Source |
| Endurance | 20 hours ISR; 12 hours armed configuration | Supplier-published figure; configuration and operating conditions affect performance. Source |
| Range | 250 km line-of-sight / 1,500 km beyond-line-of-sight data link | Published data-link distances, not total flight range. Source |
| Speed | Not established from the reviewed public sources. | Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted. Source |
| Altitude | 25,000 ft ISR; 22,000 ft armed configuration | Supplier-published figure; configuration and operating conditions affect performance. Source |
| Payload | 50 kg internal EO/IR payload, or 45 kg radar alternative; 120 kg external capacity | Published alternatives; not a combined payload or endurance guarantee. Source |
| Sensors | EO/IR or synthetic-aperture radar options | Supplier-published figure; configuration and operating conditions affect performance. Source |
| Communications / navigation | Line-of-sight and beyond-line-of-sight links; redundant avionics | Supplier-published figure; configuration and operating conditions affect performance. Source |
Publication history
- — Added a sourced global catalogue profile with configuration-specific data and explicit evidence limits.
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