Role & capabilities
- Reconnaissance aircraft
- Primary domain
- Air
- System type
- Reconnaissance aircraft
- Developer / manufacturer
- Global Industrial & Defence Solutions (GIDS)
- Origin / production countries
- Pakistan
- Other names
- Uqab NG; UQAB-NG
- Variants / configurations
- Catapult-launched Uqab-NG; Hybrid electric VTOL derivative — supplier describes development
- Operators / programme customers
- Pakistan — use reported by GIDS; exact customer configuration not established
Evidence & current status
Use is supplier-reported. Brochure revisions differ; this profile retains the selected table's baseline and flags conflicts.
Uqab-NG is a tactical reconnaissance aircraft offered by GIDS for surveillance without a conventional runway. The current brochure describes catapult launch, net recovery and an emergency parachute, together with a day-and-night sensor pod and a ground control system. GIDS also reports that the aircraft has been used in Pakistan's counter-terrorism operations; that remains a supplier statement in this entry.
Several GIDS brochures circulate with different altitude and weight presentations. The specification below follows the brochure that lists 100 plus or minus 10 kilograms take-off weight and an 18,000-foot ceiling. An older brochure's 20,000-foot figure is not silently combined with that baseline. The current table's payload limit is used in preference to conflicting promotional wording elsewhere in the same material.
A hybrid VTOL derivative is described as under development. It is listed as a proposed derivative rather than treated as a capability of the catapult-launched aircraft. Operators, certification and performance should be attached to the exact delivered configuration as further customer evidence becomes available.
Sourced specifications
Figures apply to the named configuration. Maximum values are not guaranteed operating performance.
| Specification | Reported value | Context & source |
|---|---|---|
| Airframe | Fixed-wing tactical UAV | Supplier-published figure; configuration and operating conditions affect performance. Source |
| Launch / recovery | Catapult launch; net recovery; emergency parachute | Supplier-published figure; configuration and operating conditions affect performance. Source |
| Propulsion | Electronic-fuel-injection engine | Supplier-published figure; configuration and operating conditions affect performance. Source |
| Dimensions | Not established from the reviewed public sources. | Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted. Source |
| Mass | 100 ±10 kg take-off weight | Supplier-published figure; configuration and operating conditions affect performance. Source |
| Endurance | 8 hours in specification table | Brochure prose says more than eight hours; table baseline used. Source |
| Range | 150 km line-of-sight | Data-link / operating range; not ferry distance. Source |
| Speed | Not established from the reviewed public sources. | Public data gap; no estimate or neighbouring variant value substituted. Source |
| Altitude | 5,500 m / 18,000 ft above mean sea level | Current brochure baseline; older brochures publish 20,000+ ft. Source |
| Payload | Up to 15 kg in specification table | Promotional prose in the brochure gives different wording; table used. Source |
| Sensors | Stabilised day and thermal imaging pod | Supplier-published figure; configuration and operating conditions affect performance. Source |
| Communications / navigation | Digital data link and satellite navigation | High-level functions only. Source |
Publication history
- — Added a sourced global catalogue profile with configuration-specific data and explicit evidence limits.
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