Role & capabilities
- Reconnaissance
- Primary domain
- Air
- System type
- Reconnaissance aircraft
- Developer / manufacturer
- Elbit Systems
- Origin / production countries
- Israel
- Other names
- No additional names recorded
- Variants / configurations
- Original Skylark 3; Skylark 3 Hybrid separate
- Operators / programme customers
- Not identified in reviewed sources
Evidence & current status
Supplier information is attributed; performance and operational acceptance require configuration-specific evidence.
The original Skylark 3 is Elbit’s tactical reconnaissance aircraft for portable or vehicle-supported operation. Its product page describes automated flight and a stabilised electro-optical/infrared payload. The 2023 manufacturer exhibition material gives a six-hour duration and a hundred-kilometre operating range.
Those values belong to the original model. The later Skylark 3 Hybrid has a different propulsion arrangement and its own profile. Copying the Hybrid’s longer duration into this entry would obscure a meaningful configuration difference, even when external dimensions look similar.
The manufacturer draws on the wider Skylark family’s operational history. That is relevant lineage but not a complete Skylark 3 customer inventory. This profile records the supported original baseline and leaves dimensions, loading details and individual operator fits open where the reviewed primary pages do not establish them. Later upgrades should be linked to their own specification revision.
Sourced specifications
Figures apply to the named configuration. Maximum values are not guaranteed operating performance.
| Specification | Reported value | Context & source |
|---|---|---|
| Airframe | Fixed wing | Original Skylark 3. Source |
| Launch / recovery | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source |
| Propulsion | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source |
| Dimensions | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source |
| Mass | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source |
| Endurance | Up to 6 hours | DSEI 2023 baseline; not Hybrid. Source |
| Range | 100 km stated operating range | Range definition not further specified. Source |
| Speed | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source |
| Altitude | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source |
| Payload | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source |
| Sensors | Stabilised EO/IR | Current original-model product page. Source |
| Communications / navigation | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source |
Publication history
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