Leleka-100
Country: 
UkraineManufacturer: DeViRo
Ukrainian mini ISR UAV by DeViRo, in service with Ukrainian forces and officially adopted according to the manufacturer. Total production and current inventory are unverified.
Ukrainian mini ISR UAV by DeViRo, in service with Ukrainian forces and officially adopted according to the manufacturer. Total production and current inventory are unverified.
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- Reliability
- Partially verified
- Sources
- Company homepage (company-wide figures)DeViRo · Accessed
- Our capabilitiesDeViRo · Accessed
- Leleka-100 requirement and separate Leleka LR programmeGolos Ukrainy · Accessed · Published
- Ukrainian drone production and dated Leleka-100 purchasesKarpat.in.ua · Accessed · Published
- Last reviewed
Identity
- Designation
- Leleka-100
- Alias
- Лелека-100 (Cicogna)
- Manufacturer
- DeViRo
- Country
- Ukraine
- Year
- 2015
- Category
- ISR (Reconnaissance)
- Class
- Mini (< 2 kg)
- Status
- In service
Performance
- Range
- 45 km
- Endurance
- 2 h 30 min
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Service ceiling
- 2,500 m
- Propulsion
- Elettrico brushless con elica spintore
Physical characteristics
- MTOW
- 5.5 kg
- Payload
- 1.5 kg
Onboard systems
- Sensors
- EO/IR gimbal stabilizzato giorno/notte (zoom ×10)
- Datalink / control
- Datalink digitale criptato LOS
- Launch
- Catapulta elastica
- Recovery
- Paracadute
Combat use
- ▸Donbas war (2014-2022) — Ukrainian artillery fire correction
- ▸Russia-Ukraine war (2022-) — targeting for artillery and HIMARS along every front (Kharkiv, Kherson, Bakhmut, Avdiivka)
- ▸Extensive supply to the Marine Corps and the Ukrainian National Guard
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History
Developed by Kyiv-based DeViRo from 2014 on the back of lessons learned in the Donbas, it entered series production in 2015 and was standardised by the Ukrainian Armed Forces as a mini ISR platform.
The Leleka-100 tactical drone (Ukrainian for 'stork') was born in 2014 from the experience of Ukrainian volunteers in the Donbas: DeViRo designed it as a low-cost mini ISR UAV, broken down and carried by a two-person crew, optimised for artillery fire correction.
Karpat.in.ua reported on 29 March 2023 that more than 300 Leleka-100 had been purchased for the Ukrainian Armed Forces: a dated purchase figure, not a current production total. On 14 November 2023, Golos Ukrainy described a requirement for almost a thousand complexes, not production of a thousand units in 2023; a complex can include multiple airframes. Total production and current inventory remain unverified.