Role & capabilities
- Short-range reconnaissance
- Military observation
- Primary domain
- Air
- System type
- Reconnaissance aircraft
- Developer / manufacturer
- Viettel
- Origin / production countries
- Vietnam
- Other names
- No additional names recorded
- Variants / configurations
- Not distinguished in reviewed sources
- Operators / programme customers
- Vietnamese military units (initial fielding described; units not named)
Evidence & current status
Official reporting supports trials in 2015 and initial fielding in 2018, not a complete 2026 fleet or performance table.
VUA-SC-3G is Viettel's light, short-range reconnaissance programme. Vietnam's military newspaper describes trials beginning in 2015 and aircraft supplied to some units in 2018, placing it among the earlier products in the company's uncrewed-aircraft development.
The April 2026 account is a useful official retrospective. It supports military use but does not give a current fleet count, named unit list or detailed configuration history. Later Viettel surveillance and multirole projects should not automatically be counted as versions of VUA-SC-3G.
The official article concentrates on programme history and industrial capability rather than specifications. Dimensions, mass and endurance are consequently left unknown instead of borrowing values from the separately discussed Shikra or secondary exhibition summaries. A current manufacturer sheet and operator configuration record would provide the best basis for extending this entry without conflating different Vietnamese aircraft.
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 | 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 | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. 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 | Not established in the reviewed public sources. | Public evidence gap. No estimate or neighbouring variant value has been substituted. 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
- — Published reference update.
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Follow the evidence
Source types identify who makes the claim. Programme milestones and supplier statements should be read in context.
- People's Army Newspaper programme history, 23 April 2026 (opens in a new tab)Military / official reporting