Role & capabilities
- Loitering munition programme
- Primary domain
- Air
- System type
- Loitering munition
- Developer / manufacturer
- Elbit Systems
- Origin / production countries
- Israel
- Other names
- No additional names recorded
- Variants / configurations
- Not distinguished in reviewed sources
- Operators / programme customers
- Not identified in reviewed sources
Evidence & current status
Supplier deployment and contract claims; September 2026 German demonstration is not a German order.
SkyStriker is Elbit’s electric loitering-munition system with day/night imaging and optional recovery arrangements. Its brochure supplies different durations for different load configurations; the longest duration is not an unconditional figure for every version.
The current product page records a European contract history without identifying the customer. A separate Elbit Germany account describes a September 2026 demonstration following cooperation with Diehl. Demonstrating a system to support a German offer does not establish a Bundeswehr purchase or operational acceptance.
This entry keeps supplier claims, export history and the German demonstration separate. It does not convert promotional descriptions of signature or precision into independently verified performance. Future procurement updates should specify the launch configuration and customer variant, since a family name alone cannot establish that all delivered aircraft use the same equipment or performance baseline.
Sourced specifications
Figures apply to the named configuration. Maximum values are not guaranteed operating performance.
| Specification | Reported value | Context & source |
|---|---|---|
| Airframe | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source ↗ |
| Launch / recovery | Recovery option offered | Not assumed standard on every customer fit. Source ↗ |
| Propulsion | Electric | SkyStriker family. 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 2 hours or 1 hour depending on load configuration | Distinct brochure configurations; not a universal maximum. Source ↗ |
| Range | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. 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 | Daylight and infrared imaging | Manufacturer baseline. 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
- — Added in the September 2026 global coverage review, with sources, configuration limits and explicit data gaps.
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