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 3; Shahpar III
- Variants / configurations
- Current GIDS Shahpar-III configuration
- Operators / programme customers
- Customer acceptance and operator list not established
Evidence & current status
Current manufacturer offering confirmed. Operational acceptance and realised fleet performance were not established.
Shahpar-III is the larger MALE aircraft in GIDS's current unmanned combat-aircraft catalogue. The manufacturer describes a composite airframe, retractable landing gear, redundant flight systems, and a ground station with pilot and payload-operator positions. Publicly listed surveillance options include electro-optical and infrared imaging, radar and signals-intelligence payloads.
The product page assigns different endurance, altitude and internal payload figures to reconnaissance and armed configurations. Its quoted beyond-line-of-sight data-link distance is also a communications specification, not an independently established aircraft radius. Those distinctions prevent the maximum values from being assembled into a fictional single mission configuration.
Shahpar-III is recorded separately from Shahpar-II because the current page identifies a substantially different wingspan and powerplant. The catalogue establishes an available supplier description, but the reviewed source does not identify a complete customer acceptance history or a series-delivery date. The status therefore remains supplier-reported. A future update should attach a dated flight-test or customer statement before asserting an operational fleet, export customer, or achieved performance beyond the published specification.
Sourced specifications
Figures apply to the named configuration. Maximum values are not guaranteed operating performance.
| Specification | Reported value | Context & source |
|---|---|---|
| Airframe | Fixed-wing composite MALE aircraft | Supplier-published figure; configuration and operating conditions affect performance. Source |
| Launch / recovery | Retractable landing gear | Supplier-published figure; configuration and operating conditions affect performance. Source |
| Propulsion | 170 hp heavy-fuel engine | Supplier-published figure; configuration and operating conditions affect performance. Source |
| Dimensions | 64 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 | 30 hours ISR; 16 hours armed configuration | Supplier-published figure; configuration and operating conditions affect performance. Source |
| Range | 250 km line-of-sight / 2,500+ km beyond-line-of-sight data link | Published communication distance, not aircraft radius. Source |
| Speed | Not established from the reviewed public sources. | Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted. Source |
| Altitude | 30,000 ft ISR; 28,000 ft armed configuration | Supplier-published figure; configuration and operating conditions affect performance. Source |
| Payload | Internal: 165 kg ISR or 75 kg armed; external capacity 400 kg | Separate configuration ratings; not simultaneously achieved maxima. Source |
| Sensors | EO/IR, radar and signals-intelligence options; AIS listed | Supplier-published figure; configuration and operating conditions affect performance. Source |
| Communications / navigation | Redundant line-of-sight and beyond-line-of-sight links | 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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