Aeronautics Aerostar
Country: 
IsraelManufacturer: Aeronautics Defense Systems
Aeronautics tactical ISR UAV: the manufacturer reports more than 20 years in service and over 250,000 operational flight hours. Production and sales totals are unverified.
Aeronautics tactical ISR UAV: the manufacturer reports more than 20 years in service and over 250,000 operational flight hours. Production and sales totals are unverified.
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- Reliability
- Partially verified
- Sources
- Aerostar NG (current variant)Aeronautics · Accessed
- Aerostar brochureAeronautics · Accessed
- Aeronautics boss outlines Aerostar deal with Dutch military (public excerpt)FlightGlobal · Accessed · Published
- Last reviewed
Identity
- Designation
- Aeronautics Aerostar
- Alias
- Aerostar TUAV
- Manufacturer
- Aeronautics Defense Systems
- Country
- Israel
- Year
- 2000
- Category
- ISR (Reconnaissance)
- Class
- Tactical (< 600 kg)
- Status
- In service
Performance
- Range
- 200 km
- Endurance
- 14 h
- Top speed
- 200 km/h
- Service ceiling
- 5,500 m
- Propulsion
- Pistone 2T 38 hp, elica spintore
Physical characteristics
- MTOW
- 230 kg
- Payload
- 50 kg
Onboard systems
- Sensors
- EO/IR Micro-POP / D-STAMP, opzione SAR e SIGINT
- Datalink / control
- Datalink digitale criptato LOS 200 km
- Launch
- Pista (decollo automatico) o JATO
- Recovery
- Pista (atterraggio automatico)
Combat use
- ▸Nagorno-Karabakh conflict (Azerbaijan)
- ▸Counter-insurgency operations (multiple users)
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History
Operational since 2000, the Aerostar has been used in numerous regional conflicts, including the Nagorno-Karabakh front with Azerbaijani forces.
Aeronautics reports that Aerostar has been in service worldwide for more than 20 years and has logged over 250,000 operational flight hours; the company designs and manufactures it in-house. Production and sales totals remain unverified.
On 24 March 2009, FlightGlobal reported a contract to provide Aerostar UAV services to the Netherlands. A US-operated service contract in Iraq has not been verified.
Current Aerostar NG specifications are not automatically applicable to earlier variants; existing numeric fields have not been replaced with NG figures.