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ST Engineering Veloce 15 / Veloce 60

A Singaporean VTOL surveillance family with separate short-endurance and petrol/electric long-endurance designs.

Role & capabilities

  • Runway-independent surveillance
  • Electro-optical observation
  • Maritime operation offering
Supplier-reported statusSupplier-reported status
Primary domain
Air
System type
Reconnaissance aircraft
Developer / manufacturer
ST Engineering
Origin / production countries
Singapore
Other names
No additional names recorded
Variants / configurations
Veloce 15; Veloce 60
Operators / programme customers
Not identified in reviewed sources

Evidence & current status

No named military acceptance established. Variants remain together to avoid unsupported individual fleet counts.

Veloce is ST Engineering's fixed-wing VTOL surveillance family. The Veloce 15 uses dedicated vertical-lift rotors and is offered for portable observation missions. The larger Veloce 60 combines electric vertical flight with petrol-powered cruise and is also promoted for maritime operation.

The two models occupy different endurance and communications classes. This family record therefore keeps their figures paired with their names, rather than presenting the smaller aircraft with the larger one's performance. The published distances are data-link ranges, not a guarantee of mission radius. Similarly, the Veloce 60 sea-state claim concerns the supplier's stated shipboard offering and is not evidence of acceptance on a particular naval vessel.

The current manufacturer catalogue provides a clear technical distinction but no named military recipient or dated acceptance milestone for either model. Both remain supplier-described configurations in this collection. Confirmed customer versions and a dated mass-and-payload table would support more detailed separate model records.

Sourced specifications

Figures apply to the named configuration. Maximum values are not guaranteed operating performance.

SpecificationReported valueContext & source
AirframeNot established in the reviewed public sources.Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source ↗
Launch / recoveryNot established in the reviewed public sources.Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source ↗
PropulsionVeloce 60: electric vertical lift and petrol cruiseSupplier baseline; performance depends on payload and conditions. Source ↗
DimensionsNot established in the reviewed public sources.Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source ↗
MassNot established in the reviewed public sources.Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source ↗
EnduranceVeloce 15: 2.5 hours; Veloce 60: 12–14 hoursSupplier baseline; performance depends on payload and conditions. Source ↗
RangeNot established in the reviewed public sources.Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source ↗
SpeedNot established in the reviewed public sources.Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source ↗
AltitudeNot established in the reviewed public sources.Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source ↗
PayloadNot established in the reviewed public sources.Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source ↗
SensorsNot established in the reviewed public sources.Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. Source ↗
Communications / navigationVeloce 15: 15 km data link; Veloce 60: 100 kmCommunications range by model; not an aircraft mission radius. Source ↗

Publication history

  • — Added in the September 2026 global coverage review, with sources, configuration limits and explicit data gaps.

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  1. ST Engineering uncrewed aerial vehicles catalogue (opens in a new tab)Manufacturer / programme

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